84-162 Vital resource emergencies; legislative findings. - Nebraska Statutes

84-162. Vital resource emergencies; legislative findings.The Legislature finds, for purposes of sections 84-162 to 84-167, that:(1) Water for domestic, agricultural, and industrial use, food for domestic use, and adequate energy supplies are vital resources needed to sustain life;(2) The interruption of supplies of these resources or the threat of such interruption may cause severe hardship or threaten the health and lives of the citizens of the state;(3) The Governor, as chief executive, should have adequate means at his or her disposal to insure the health and welfare of the citizens of the state; and(4) Sections 84-162 to 84-167 provide the additional emergency powers necessary for the Governor to act in specified vital resource emergencies. SourceLaws 1980, LB 954, § 51.