5-2-2: INTERIM SUCCESSION:
If any of the following city officers are unavailable to exercise the powers and duties of the office they hold, then the officers stated below shall, in the order named, exercise the powers and duties of that office until the incumbent officer shall become available:
 
1st
Mayor
2nd
Mayor pro tempore
3rd
City manager
4th
Emergency manager
5th
Senior most city council member (in years on the council/or in the event 2 or more council members were elected the same year, then seniority shall be based on the greater number of votes received) available
 
(Ord. 92-12, 9-1-1992; amd. 2012 Code)