es Code, or any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress. (See 10 U.S.C. 101(a)(13)) (2) ???Covered employer??? means: (a) The state, and a department, agency, board or commission of the state; and (b) A local government, including but not limited to a county, city, town, municipal corporation, independent public corporation or politi