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

Section 8 Disposition versions

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8. Each regional municipality must, in complementarity and coherence with its other fields of jurisdiction that contribute to civil protection and taking into account climate change, carry out a disaster risk management process, according to a continuous improvement approach, that includes the following steps:

(1)  establishment of the context applicable to the carrying out of the process;

(2)  risk assessment, that is, identification, analysis and evaluation of the risks present in its territory in order to identify those that constitute disaster risks and to establish, among the latter, those that must be given priority; and

(3)  processing of disaster risks in order to plan and put in place, according to established priorities and with a view to promoting their community’s disaster resilience, measures to prevent disasters and prepare the response to them.

Every local municipality whose territory is included in the regional municipality’s territory must closely collaborate in the carrying out of the disaster risk management process, in particular by contributing its knowledge and resources and by sending the necessary information and documents to the regional municipality.

For the purposes of the first paragraph,

(1)  a local municipality referred to in paragraph e of the definition of “regional municipality” may reach an agreement with a regional municipality whereby the local municipality’s territory is taken into account by the regional municipality or reach an agreement with other local municipalities referred to in the same paragraph so that one of them acts as the regional municipality, except if an authority referred to in paragraph a of that definition 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; and

(2)  a regional county municipality may, by resolution, delegate all or part of its jurisdiction to a local municipality in its territory.

2024, c. 18, s. 1.