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[TITLE 63. Table of Contents]
[CHAPTER 5b. Table of Contents]
63-5b-401 Emergency interim successors for local officers.
(1) By July 1 of each year, each political subdivision officer shall:
(a) designate three emergency interim successors;
(b) specify their order of succession; and
(c) provide a list of those designated successors to the division.
(2) (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law:
(i) if any political subdivision officer or his legal deputy, if any, is unavailable, a designated emergency interim successor shall exercise the powers and duties of the office according to the order of succession specified by the political subdivision officer; or
(ii) counties may provide by ordinance that one member of the county legislative body may act as the county legislative body if the other members are absent.
(b) An emergency interim successor shall exercise the powers and duties of the office only until:
(i) the vacancy is filled in accordance with the constitution or statutes; or
(ii) the political subdivision officer, his deputy, or an emergency interim successor earlier in the order of succession becomes available to exercise the powers and duties of the office.
(3) The legislative bodies of each political subdivision
may enact resolutions or ordinances consistent with this
chapter and also provide for emergency interim successors
to officers of the political subdivision not governed by
this section.
1992
