(a) Elective officers. Within 30 days following the effective date of this Article I and thereafter within 30 days after first entering upon the duties of his or her office, the Mayor and each member of the City Council shall designate three emergency interim successors to his or her office and specify their rank and order of succession.
(b) Heads of department. Within 30 days following the effective date of this Article I, and thereafter within 30 days after first entering upon the duties of his or her office, each head of a department shall in addition to any
, designate such number of emergency interim successors to his or her office and specify their rank and order of succession after any
so that there will be not less than three duly authorized deputies or emergency interim successors or combination thereof for such office.
(c) Review of designation. The incumbent elected officials and the heads of departments, in the case of those appointive officers, shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designations of emergency interim successors to ensure that at all times there are at least three such qualified emergency interim successors or duly authorized deputies or any combination thereof for each officer specified.
(d) Qualifications. No person shall be designated or serve as an
unless he or she may under the Constitution and statutes of this state and the Charter or code of this city, hold the office of the person to whose powers and duties he or she is designated to succeed, but no provision of any ordinance prohibiting an officer or employee of this city from holding another office shall be applicable to an
.
(e) Status of
. A person designated as an
holds that designation at the choice and discretion of the designator; provided, that he or she shall be replaced if removed. He or she shall retain this designation as
until replaced by another appointed by the authorized designator.
(1958 Code, § 85.04) (Ord. 67-19, passed 5-15-1967)