S-2.4 - Act respecting civil protection to promote disaster resilience

Section 2 Disposition versions

2024-05-28

2. For the purposes of this Act,

“disaster” means an event resulting from the occurrence of a hazard or a combination of hazards that causes harm to persons or substantial damage to property, that interferes with the normal functioning of all or part of a community and that requires the deployment of exceptional measures to limit the consequences of the event;

“disaster risk” means a risk that, according to the combination of a hazard’s probability of occurring and the potential resulting consequences for vulnerable elements of an area, could cause a disaster;

“government authority” means a government department or government body a majority of whose members are appointed by the Government or a minister, whose personnel is by law appointed in accordance with the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1) or whose capital forms part of the domain of the State;

“hazard” means a natural or anthropogenic phenomenon or activity, such as a flood, an earthquake, a landslide, an accident involving dangerous substances, the failure of an infrastructure, a forest fire or a pandemic;

“municipal authority” means a local municipality or a regional municipality;

“regional municipality”  means

(a)  a regional county municipality, a local municipality to which a regional county municipality has delegated all or part of its jurisdiction in accordance with subparagraph 2 of the third paragraph of section 8, or an authority that has affirmed in accordance with the law that it has jurisdiction with respect to a field of jurisdiction that this Act confers on a regional county municipality;

(b)  the Kativik Regional Government;

(c)  Ville de Montréal, Ville de Québec, Ville de Longueuil, Ville de La Tuque and Municipalité des Îles-de-la-Madeleine for the territory of the urban agglomeration for which they are the central municipality;

(d)  Ville de Gatineau, Ville de Laval, Ville de Lévis, Ville de Mirabel, Ville de Rouyn-Noranda, Ville de Saguenay, Ville de Shawinigan, Ville de Sherbrooke and Ville de Trois-Rivières; and

(e)  any other local municipality whose territory is not included in that of a regional municipality within the meaning of subparagraphs a to d, except if an authority referred to in subparagraph a has affirmed in accordance with the law that it has jurisdiction as regards the local municipality with respect to a field of jurisdiction that this Act confers on a regional county municipality or if the authority has entered into an agreement in accordance with subparagraph 1 of the third paragraph of section 8, unless, in the latter case, the authority acts as a regional municipality.

2024, c. 18, s. 1.