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EXecBd1O192022 <br /> responsibility for conducting incident operations, and is responsible for the on-scene <br /> management of all incident operations. <br /> P. "Incident Command System" means a standardized management system such as <br /> the National Incident Management System (NIMS), designed to enable effective and <br /> efficient incident management by integrating a combination of facilities, equipment, <br /> personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common <br /> organizational structure. <br /> Q. "MABAS"means the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System described in the Agreement, and <br /> is an intergovernmental agency formed pursuant to the authority of the Illinois <br /> Intergovernmental Cooperation Act and similar intergovernmental cooperation <br /> authority of other states in which Units reside. <br /> R. "Mutual Aid" is assistance from an Aiding Unit to a Requesting Unit as the result of <br /> an Emergency or other event and may precede the request for a Box Alarm and <br /> includes Automatic Mutual Aid. <br /> S. "Requesting Unit"means any Unit requesting assistance of another Unit under this <br /> Agreement. <br /> T. "Serious Threats to Public Health and Safety"means threats, incidents or planned <br /> events of sufficient magnitude that the adequate public safety response requires <br /> mutual aid or other assistance. <br /> U. "Training" means the instruction and/or assessment of Emergency Services during <br /> non-emergency drills and instruction whether in the field or classroom. <br /> V. "Unit"(also"Member Unit")means components of federal,state or local government, <br /> or other non-governmental emergency response organizations who have become <br /> Parties to this Agreement. <br /> SECTION THREE AUTHORITY AND ACTION TO EFFECT MUTUAL AID <br /> The Parties hereby authorize and direct their respective Chief Officer, or designee, to take <br /> reasonably necessary and proper action to render and request Mutual Aid to and from the other <br /> Parties to the Agreement, and to participate in Training activities, all in furtherance of effective <br /> and efficient provision of Mutual Aid pursuant to this Agreement. <br /> In accordance with a Party's policies and within the authority provided to its Chief Officer, upon <br /> an Aiding Unit's receipt of a request from a Requesting Unit for Emergency Services, the Chief <br /> 7 <br />