Emergency Manager Law Primer: Protecting the Public ' s Health During Financial Emergencies: Lessons Learned from the Flint Water Crisis

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Network for Public Health Law. 01/2018 This 12-page fact sheet addresses the purpose of emergency manager laws; how they operate; the emergency manager ' s powers, duties, and limitations; the role of citizens and elected officials while under emergency management; transition after emergency management; and the intersection of emergency manager laws with other laws. It illustrates the variety of state emergency manager laws based on key features, and examines differences in their implementation, including in Michigan. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 16, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news