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Declaration of policy - 53 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1132

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     § 1132.  Declaration of policy.
        Because of the existing possibility of attack upon the United
     States of unprecedented size and destructiveness and in order,
     in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of
     government through legally constituted authority and
     responsibility in offices of the municipalities of this
     Commonwealth, to provide for the effective operation of
     government during an emergency and to facilitate the early
     resumption of functions temporarily suspended, it is found and
     declared to be necessary to provide for emergency interim
     succession to offices of the municipalities of this Commonwealth
     in the event the incumbents and their deputies authorized to
     exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of these
     offices, referred to in this subchapter as deputies, are
     unavailable to exercise the powers and perform the duties of
     these offices.

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