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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="14-303" title_number="14" title_name="Emergency Management" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Governor's Emergency Powers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>During a public emergency in the State, the Governor may proclaim a state of emergency and designate the emergency area:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>if public safety is endangered or on reasonable apprehension of immediate danger to public safety; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Governor’s own initiative; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the application of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the chief executive officer or governing body of a county or municipal corporation; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the Secretary of State Police.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>After proclaiming a state of emergency, the Governor may promulgate reasonable orders, rules, or regulations that the Governor considers necessary to protect life and property or calculated effectively to control and terminate the public emergency in the emergency area, including orders, rules, or regulations to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>control traffic, including public and private transportation, in the emergency area;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>designate specific zones in the emergency area in which the occupancy and use of buildings and vehicles may be controlled;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>control the movement of individuals or vehicles into, in, or from the designated zones;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>control places of amusement and places of assembly;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>control individuals on public streets;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>establish curfews;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>control the sale, transportation, and use of alcoholic beverages;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>control the possession, sale, carrying, and use of firearms, other dangerous weapons, and ammunition;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>control the storage, use, and transportation of explosives or flammable materials or liquids considered to be dangerous to public safety, including “Molotov cocktails”; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>authorize the use of alternate care sites.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before an order, rule, or regulation promulgated under subsection (b) of this section takes effect, the Governor shall give reasonable notice of the order, rule, or regulation:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in a newspaper of general circulation in the emergency area;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>through television or radio serving the emergency area; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>by circulating notices or posting signs at conspicuous places in the emergency area.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An order, rule, or regulation promulgated under subsection (b) of this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>takes effect from the time and in the manner specified in the order, rule, or regulation;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may be amended or rescinded, in the same manner as the original order, by the Governor at any time during the state of emergency; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>terminates when the Governor declares that the state of emergency no longer exists.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
