Contract Counties Sample Clauses

Contract Counties. State law provides that a county may, with the concurrence of the State, elect to assume responsibility for the fire protection of SRA and that the State may enter into a contract with said county for necessary protection. The State has entered into such a contract with the counties of Marin, Kern, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange that are hereinafter referred to as contract counties. These contracts are for the protection of SRA only, as State law does not provide for the State to contract with these counties for the protection of FRA. The protection of any FRA, LRA and improvements rests with the appropriate Federal Agency (ies) and/or local agency fire department(s) respectively. A contract county is responsible for the command of all firefighting forces on fires in SRA within the county DPA. The contract county will make an appropriate initial attack on all fires and make a reasonable and substantial commitment of county or local mutual aid forces before requesting State assistance. If it is determined that State paid suppression assistance is required, the State will assign an Agency Representative or Agency Administrator. The Agency Representative or Agency Administrator will determine and authorize the State’s fiscal responsibility. In the absence of an Agency Representative or Agency Administrator, the appropriate State Region Command Center (RCC) will determine and authorize the State’s fiscal responsibility. The responsibility and authority for any expenditure of State emergency funds must rest with a State forest officer, typically the assigned Agency Representative or Agency Administrator.

Contract Counties. Contractors have designated the counties in which they will provide service under the statewide contract. Please refer to the Vendor list below for service areas. The list of counties is available under the “Attachment” tab of COMMBUYS (xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx).