Can a state of emergency be declared as an act of the executive branch?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Adkins v. State of California, 50 Cal.App.4th 1802, 59 Cal.Rptr.2d 59 (Cal. App. 1996):
2 We have taken judicial notice of this fact as an act of the executive branch. (Evid.Code, 452, subd. (c).) Governors of this state have declared similar emergencies three times over the last 26 years. (Macias v. State of California, supra, at p. 847, 42 Cal.Rptr.2d 592, 897 P.2d 530.)
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