Civil Defense: Purpose of Chapter

Civil Defense: Purpose of Chapter. It is hereby declared to be the purpose and intent of this chapter that it is in the best interest of the people of the Commonwealth, in this thermonuclear age, to provide a system of civil defense for the protection of life and property from attack, invasion, civil disturbance, natural disaster or other emergency and to establish procedures and plans to mobilize and utilize all available resources to respond to that emergency. Source: PL 1-44, § 4. Commission Comment: PL 1-44 took effect February 4, 1980; see also 1 CMC § 2531 et seq.