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Authorized Representative: The person or persons designated by each Party in the Plan to request <br />Assistance from or grant Assistance to another Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. <br />Mutual Aid: A prearranged written Agreement and Plan whereby Assistance is requested and <br />may be provided between two or more healthcare jurisdictions during a Public Health Incident, <br />Emergency or Disaster under the terms of this Agreement. <br />MuluallvAgreed Upon : As it pertains to the "Withdrawal of Assistance" in Article VI. A <br />condition or set of conditions that both parties verbally conclude to be fair and appropriate prior <br />to agreeing to send or receive resources, with a written document to follow in a timely manner. <br />Period o(Assistallce : The period of time beginning with the departure of any personnel, <br />equipment, materials, supplies, services, and/or related resources of the Assisting Party from any <br />point for the purpose of traveling to provide Assistance exclusively to the Requesting Party, and <br />ending on the return of all of the Assisting Parties personnel, equipment, materials, supplies, <br />services, and/or related resources to their regular place of work or assignment, or otherwise <br />terminated through written or verbal notice of the Authorized Representative of the Assisting <br />Party With respect to facility use, the Period of Assistance shall commence on the date agreed <br />upon between the Requesting and Assisting Party and shall end when the Requesting Party <br />returns possession of the facility to the Assisting Party, or when otherwise terminated through <br />written or verbal notice of the Authorized Representative ofthe Assisting Party. <br />Plan: a written regional healthcare inter-jurisdictional Mutual Aid Plan that meets the <br />requirements set forth in Article VII. <br />Public Heallh Incident. Emergency. or Disaster: Any occurrence, or threat thereof, whether <br />natural or caused by man, in war or in peace, to which any Party may respond pursuant to its <br />authority under chapter 70.05 or 70.46 RCW, or other applicable law, and that, in the judgment <br />of the Requesting Party, results or may result in circumstances sufficient to exceed the <br />capabilities of immediate local or regional healthcare response. <br />Portal to Portal Method: The Assisting Party's resources compensable time starts at the moment <br />the resource leaves the Assisting Party's location and concludes when that resource returns to <br />this same location. <br />R e.questingParty: A Party that has requested Assistance from a Party from another healthcare <br />agency participating in this Agreement. <br />ARTICLE II <br />IMPLEMENTATION <br />This Agreement shall become effective immediately upon its execution by any two Parties. After <br />the first two such executions, this Agreement shall become effective as to any other Parties in