20080326-IR-GOV080123EOA EXECUTIVE ORDER: 08-03 FOR: DECLARING A DISASTER EMERGENCY IN CARROLL, CASS, ELKHART, FULTON, JASPER, MARSHALL, PULASKI, TIPPECANOE AND WHITE COUNTIES, INDIANA, DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL, SIGNIFICANT FL...

STATE OF INDIANA

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

INDIANAPOLIS

EXECUTIVE ORDER: 08-03

FOR: DECLARING A DISASTER EMERGENCY IN CARROLL, CASS, ELKHART, FULTON, JASPER, MARSHALL, PULASKI, TIPPECANOE AND WHITE COUNTIES, INDIANA, DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL, SIGNIFICANT FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME, GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, heavy rains swept through Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Marshall, Pulaski, Tippecanoe and White counties on January 7, 2008; and

WHEREAS, serious flooding and flash flooding, particularly involving the Tippecanoe, Yellow and Wabash rivers, resulted from the heavy rains; and

WHEREAS, state, federal and local roads throughout the affected counties became impassable due to high water; and

WHEREAS, as a result of the flooding and flash flooding, there has been significant damage to public and private property.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Indiana, do hereby

DECLARE, that a state of disaster emergency exists in Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Marshall, Pulaski, Tippecanoe and White counties, Indiana; and

ORDER the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, having already implemented the State Emergency Plan, to provide needed emergency services to the damaged areas of Indiana impacted by the heavy rains and subsequent flooding and to coordinate assistance with appropriate federal, state and local agencies.

This declaration of disaster emergency was in effect beginning January 7, 2008, and continues.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., have hereunto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Indiana on this 23^rd day of January, 2008.

Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.

Governor of Indiana

SEAL

ATTEST: Todd Rokita

Secretary of State

Posted: 03/26/2008 by Legislative Services Agency

DIN: 20080326-IR-GOV080123EOA

Composed: Nov 01,2016 12:21:23AM EDT

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