(A) Within 30 days following the effective date of this subchapter, and thereafter within 30 days after first entering upon the duties of his or her office, the Mayor, each member of the City Council and the City Clerk shall, in addition to any duly authorized deputy, designate such number of emergency interim successors to his office and specify their rank in order of succession after any duly authorized deputy so that there will be not less than three duly authorized deputies or emergency interim successors or combination thereof for the office.
(B) The Council shall within the time specified in division (A) above, in addition to any duly authorized deputy, designate for appointive officers and employees including the Chief of the Fire Department, Chief of the Police Department, Superintendent of Public Works, Director of Building and Housing, City Attorney and Health Officer such number of emergency interim successors to these officers and specify their rank in order of succession after any duly authorized deputy so that there will be not less than three duly authorized deputies or emergency interim successors or combination thereof for each officer or employees are appointed or hired, but not covered in this division (B), the Council shall, within the time specified in division (A) above, make appointments in compliance with this division (B).
(C) The incumbent in the case of those elective officers specified in division (A) above, and the Council in case of those appointive officers and employees specified in division (B) above, shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designations of emergency interim successors to insure 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) No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless he or she may, under the constitution and statutes of the state and the ordinances of the city, hold the office of the person to whose powers and duties he or she is designated to succeed, but no provision of this code or any ordinance prohibiting an officer or employee of the city from holding another office shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor.
(E) A person designated as an emergency interim successor holds that designation at the pleasure of the designator; provided that, he or she must be replaced if removed. He or she retains this designation as emergency interim successor until replaced by another appointed by the authorized designator.
(Prior Code, § 38.42) (Ord. 492, passed - -1962; Ord. 19-O-2240, passed 10-2-2019)