KRS 39A.240: State Emergency Operations Center -- Agency representatives.

(1) The division shall maintain the State Emergency Operations Center and those

alternate locations deemed necessary, and shall activate the State Emergency

Operations Center when deemed necessary by the director, the Adjutant General, or

the Governor.

(2) Each cabinet of state government, and each independent agency of state

government, and other organizations provided for in the Kentucky Emergency

Operations Plan shall immediately send a designated person to the State Emergency

Operations Center upon request of the director, during a time of emergency or

disaster or the threatened or impending happening of such an incident. They shall

remain at the State Emergency Operations Center until relieved and replaced, unless

released by the director.

(3) Persons representing agencies of state government or other organizations assigned

to the State Emergency Operations Center during times of emergency or disaster or

the threatened or impending happening thereof may obligate the funds, equipment,

and personnel of the org anization which they represent, and make decisions on

behalf of the organization which they represent.