California Government Code

§ 8594.16

GOV § 8594.16 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 1 · Title 2 · Ch. 7 · Art. 6.5

Statute text

(a)Translating emergency notifications into the most commonly spoken language other than English is a critically important governmental activity. In order for residents impacted by an emergency to be made aware of the emergency, it is critical that emergency notifications to the public be translated either into the most commonly spoken language other than English in the impacted county or counties, or, at the option of a county, into one or more commonly spoken languages other than English in the county based on an individualized language assessment of that county.

(b)The Office of Emergency Services shall create a library of translated emergency notifications that may be used by designated alerting authorities when issuing emergency notifications. The office shall consider the two most commonly spoken languages other than English in the state when creating the library.

(c)The Office of Emergency Services shall create a translation style guide that includes a glossary of translated standard abbreviations used in emergency notifications.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 497, Sec. 134. (AB 991) Effective January 1, 2020.