Because of 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 village, it is found and declared by the Village Council to be necessary to provide for emergency interim officers who can exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the key executive, administrative, legislative and judicial offices of the village in the event that the incumbents thereof are unable to perform the duties and functions of their offices; and this subchapter is, therefore, enacted pursuant to the authority conferred by G.S. Ch. 162B.
(Prior Code, § 2-24)