In the interest of the public safety, health and welfare and for the protection of property and pursuant to the authority conferred by Act 203 of the Public Acts of 1959 of the State and because of the existing possibility of an attack upon the United States of unprecedented size and destructiveness, including the inevitable hazards of radioactive contamination, and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure the continuation of effective legally constituted leadership, authority and responsibility in the offices of the government of the City, it is found and declared by the City Commission to be necessary to provide for the appointment of emergency interim officers who can exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the key executive, administrative and legislative offices of the City in the event that the incumbents thereof, and their deputies, assistants or other subordinate officers authorized, pursuant to law, to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of such offices, are killed, missing, disabled or for some other reason unable to perform the duties and functions of their offices during and immediately after an enemy attack.
(1975 Code Sec. 1.141)