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A. Appointive Officers. The mayor shall, within 30 days following the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, designate for appointive officers including the city attorney, chief of police, fire chief, public works director, finance director, planning director, parks director, personnel director, city clerk, and the supervisors of maintenance and operations, streets, water, sewer, building, airport and cemetery divisions an emergency interim successor to each of these officers.

B. Qualifications. No person shall be designated to serve as an emergency interim successor unless they may, under the Constitution and statutes of this state and the charter or ordinances of this city, hold the office of the person to whose powers and duties they 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 emergency interim successor.

C. Status of Emergency Interim Successor. A person designated as an emergency interim successor holds that designation at the pleasure of the designator; provided, that they must be replaced if removed. They retains this designation as emergency interim successor until replaced by another appointed by the authorized designator.

D. Required Order of Succession. The normal succession of office for administrative and legislative officials shall be:

1. Mayor to deputy mayor;

2. Deputy mayor to the remainder of the council in the order of longest to least tenure. Longest tenure is to be calculated as the total length of consecutive service as a city councilperson;

3. In the event of two or more members having equal tenure, the order of succession shall be determined on the basis of the largest number of votes received at the most recent general election;

4. Should the mayor and all legislative officials be incapacitated or otherwise unable to perform their duties for any reason, and until such time as they are able to resume their duties, or until a normal process of appointment or election can provide successors in order to assure the continuity and availability of governmental services, the succession for administrative purposes shall continue to the administrative heads of the departments of city government or their successors;

5. The order of succession by department heads shall continue as follows:

Police chief;

Public works director;

Planning director;

Parks director;

Finance director; and

City attorney. (Ord. 6191 § 5, 2008; Ord. 3955 § 3, 1984.)