§ 3. Definitions. As used in this act the following terms shall mean
and include:

1. "Agency." An office, department, division, bureau, board or
commission of the state or of a political subdivision thereof, including
volunteer agencies.

2. "Attack." Any attack, actual or imminent, or series of attacks by
an enemy or a foreign nation upon the United States causing, or which
may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons
in the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs,
shellfire, or nuclear, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or
biological means or other weapons or processes.

3. "City director." The director of civil defense heading a city
office.

4. "City office." A city office of civil defense or a consolidated
city office of civil defense.

5. "Civil defense." All those activities and measures designed or
undertaken (l) to minimize the effects upon the civilian population
caused or which would be caused by an attack, (2) to deal with the
immediate emergency conditions which would be created by any such
attack, and (3) to effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency
restoration of, vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by
any such attack. Such term shall include, but shall not be limited to,
(A) measures to be taken in preparation for anticipated attack
(including the establishment of appropriate organizations, operational
plans, and the supporting agreements; the recruitment and training of
personnel; the conduct of research; the procurement and stockpiling of
materials necessary to the survival, recovery and rehabilitation of the
state and of its inhabitants; the provision of suitable warning systems;
the construction or preparation of shelters and control centers;
provisions for the continuity of state and local governments; and, when
appropriate, the non-military evacuation of civil population); (B)
measures to be taken during attack (including the enforcement of passive
defense regulations prescribed by duly established military or civil
authorities; the movement of personnel to shelters; the control of
traffic and panic; and the control and use of lighting and civil
communications); and (C) measures to be taken following attack
(including but not limited to activities for fire fighting; rescue,
emergency medical, health and sanitation services; monitoring for
radiation and other specific hazards of special weapons; decontamination
procedures; unexploded bomb reconnaissance; essential debris clearance;
emergency welfare measures; immediately essential emergency repair or
restoration of damaged vital facilities; the implementation of the means
and methods for the recovery and rehabilitation of the state; effective
utilization of all persons and materials; care and shelter for those
made homeless; distribution of stockpiled food, water, medical supplies,
machinery and other equipment; the preservation of raw materials; the
restoration of essential community services, industrial and
manufacturing capacity, and commercial and financial activities in the
state; and the resumption of educational programs).

6. "Civil defense forces." Agencies, public officers, employees, and
enrolled civil defense volunteers, all having duties and
responsibilities under or pursuant to this act in connection with civil
defense.

7. "Commission." The state civil defense commission created by article
three of this act.

8. "Communication facility" or "communication device" shall not mean
or include a newspaper.

9. "Council." The New York state defense council created by article
two of this act.

10. "County director." The director of civil defense heading a county
office.

11. "County office." A county office of civil defense or a
consolidated county office of civil defense.

l2. "Defense effort." The preparation of the United States and other
nations cooperating with it for defense against attack and for the
conduct of war.

l3. "Defense emergency." The period beginning with the effective date
of this act and ending upon the termination of the national emergency as
proclaimed by the president of the United States on December sixteenth,
nineteen hundred fifty.

14. "Drill." Any duly authorized activity of the state civil defense
commission or a local office of civil defense, or subdivision, service
or unit thereof, with or without the participation of the general
public, held in training or preparation for enemy attack or for
rehabilitation and recovery procedures following an attack. Drill is
synonymous with authorized test, training, or training or practice
exercise. Drill includes assistance by civil defense forces in combating
natural or peacetime disasters upon the direction of a public officer
authorized by law to call upon a civil defense director for assistance
in protecting human life or property.

15. "Facilities." Buildings, shelters, utilities, and land.

16. "Fallout shelter." A building, structure or other real property,
or an area or portion thereof, so constructed, altered or improved as to
provide protection against harmful radiation resulting from radioactive
fallout in accordance with the plan, regulations or orders of the
commission pertaining thereto, including such plumbing, heating,
electrical, ventilating, conditioning, filtrating and refrigerating
equipment and other mechanical additions or installations, if any, as
may be an integral part thereof.

17. "Law." A general or special statute, law, city or village charter,
local law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order or rule of
common law.

18. "Local director." A county director or a city director.

19. "Local office." A county office or a city office.

20. "Materials." Raw materials, food, water, supplies, medicines,
machinery, equipment, component parts and technical information and
processes necessary for civil defense.

21. "Municipal agency." An agency of a political subdivision
responsible for police, fire, sanitation, public works, street, sewer,
water, health, emergency or other services involving duties and
responsibilities in connection with civil defense.

22. "Political subdivision." A county, town, city, village, school
district or other district, district corporation or public benefit
corporation.

23. "Shelter." A building, structure or other real property, or an
area or portion thereof, which is to be used for the protection of
persons during or after an attack, including such services, utilities
and equipment, if any, as may be an integral part thereof.

24. "State director." The New York state director of civil defense.

25. "Volunteer agencies." Agencies sponsored or authorized by the
commission or local offices of civil defense the personnel of which are
in major part selected from among volunteer persons serving without
compensation and may include wardens, shelter captains, warning
services, auxiliary police, auxiliary firemen, bomb squads, radiological
units and personnel, rescue squads, emergency medical units and other
medical forces, nurses' aides, repair crews, monitoring and
decontamination squads, demolition crews and all other similar forces
and services having duties and responsibilities in connection with civil
defense.