A. “Civil emergency” means injury and damage resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack, sabotage, or other hostile actions, or by fire, flood, storm, earthquake or other natural causes.

B. “Emergency interim successor” means a person designated pursuant to this chapter for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a city officer in the event that such officer or any duly authorized deputy is unavailable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office.

C. “Sickness or injury incident” means events or a series of events which may occur involving one or more key executive, administrative or legislative officials of the city of Auburn, who could fall victim to an individual, concurrent or common injury or sickness which could disturb the usual and normal continuity of the city’s government.

D. “Unavailable” means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office (including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy) and their duly authorized deputy are absent or unable, for physical, mental or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. (Ord. 3955 § 2, 1984.)