Follow up: New executive orders under state of emergency
Earlier on 9/7 Indiana Barrister reported that Gov. Mitch Daniels had requested that Indiana be put on a state of emergency in order to receive federal funds for help it has provided to Hurricane Katrina victims. As part of numerous executive orders related to the relief effort, Gov. Daniels declared the state of emergency on September 6, 2005 and placed it in effect on August 29, 2005
Yesterday on September 9, while under a state of emergency, Gov. Daniels released the latest in the relief-related executive orders which granted sweeping authority to his office and agency heads in taking any action “necessary or appropriate to support ongoing emergency management and disaster relief efforts relating to, or to cope with temprary economic dispruption caused by, Hurricane Katrina.” The order cites I.C. 10-14-3-11 as part of its authority to grant such powers to agencies.
