(a) Designations. Within thirty days after first entering upon the duties of their office, all elective and appointive officers of the City and all heads of departments of the City Government, except judicial officers, shall designate by title three emergency interim successors and specify their order of succession.
(b) Review of Designations. The officer shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designation of emergency successors to ensure that there are three qualified emergency interim successors at all times.
(c) Qualifications. No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless permitted, under the Constitution and statutes of the State, the City Charter and these Codified Ordinances, to hold the office to which that person has been designated.
(d) Removal of Designated Successors; Duty to Keep Informed. Until such time as the person designated as an emergency interim successor succeeds to the exercise of the powers and the discharge of the duties of an office in accordance with this chapter, that person holds that designation at the pleasure of the designator and such designator may remove or replace such person at any time, with or without cause, by filing notice thereof, signed and sworn to by him or her, with the City Clerk. Each emergency interim successor shall keep generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current affairs of the office to which he has been designated.
(1975 Code Sec. 1.143)