(a) After the declaration of a health emergency or a local health emergency pursuant to Section 101080, the director or local health officer may do any or all of the following:
(1) Only in the case of a release, spill, escape, or entry of waste as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 101075, require any person or organization that the director or local health officer shall specify to furnish any information known relating to the properties, reactions, and identity of the material that has been released, spilled, or escaped. The director or local health officer may require information to be furnished, under penalty of perjury, by the person, company, corporation, or other organization that had custody of the material, and, if the material is being transferred or transported, by any person, company, corporation, or organization that caused the material to be transferred or transported. This information shall be furnished to the director or local health officer upon request in sufficient detail, as determined by the director or local health officer, as required to take any action necessary to abate the health emergency or local health emergency or protect the health of persons in the jurisdiction, or any area thereof, who are, or may be affected. However, the burden, including costs, of furnishing the information shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the information and the benefits to be obtained therefrom.
(2) Provide the information, or any necessary portions thereof, or any other necessary information available to the director or local health officer to state or local agencies responding to the health emergency or local health emergency or to medical and other professional personnel treating victims of the local health emergency.
(3) Sample, analyze, or otherwise determine the identifying and other technical information relating to the health emergency or local health emergency as necessary to respond to or abate the local health emergency and protect the public health.
(b) After the declaration of a local health emergency by the local health officer pursuant to Section 101080, the following shall apply in the jurisdiction in which the local health emergency has been declared:
(1) Other political subdivisions have full power to provide mutual aid to any area affected by a local health emergency in accordance with local ordinances, resolutions, emergency plans, or agreements therefor.
(2) State agencies may provide mutual aid, including personnel, equipment, and other available resources, to assist political subdivisions during a local health emergency or in accordance with mutual aid agreements or at the direction of the Governor.
(3) In the absence of a state of war emergency or state of emergency, the cost of extraordinary services incurred by political subdivisions in executing mutual aid agreements in a local health emergency shall constitute a legal charge against the state when approved by the Governor in accordance with orders and regulations promulgated as prescribed in Section 8567 of the Government Code.
(c) Under this section, a local health emergency shall be considered a local emergency for purposes of Section 8659 of the Government Code.
(d) This section does not limit or abridge any of the powers or duties granted to the State Water Resources Control Board and to each regional water quality control board by Division 7 (commencing with Section 13000) of the Water Code. This section also does not limit or abridge the powers or duties granted to the State Air Resources Board or to any air pollution control district by Division 26 (commencing with Section 39000).
This section does not limit or abridge any of the powers or duties granted to the Director of Food and Agriculture or to any county agricultural commissioner by Division 6 (commencing with Section 11401) or by Division 7 (commencing with Section 12501) of the Food and Agricultural Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 874, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2007.)