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Emergency interim successors for local officers - 53 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1135

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     § 1135.  Emergency interim successors for local officers.
        This section is applicable to officers of municipalities not
     included in section 1134 (relating to enabling authority for
     emergency interim successors for local offices). Each officer,
     subject to any regulations as the executive head of the
     municipality may issue, shall designate by title, if feasible,
     or by named person emergency interim successors and specify
     their order of succession. The officer shall review and revise,
     as necessary, designations made pursuant to this subchapter. The
     officer will designate a sufficient number of persons so that
     there will be not less than three deputies or emergency interim
     successors or any combination of them. If any officer or deputy
     of any municipality is unavailable, the powers of the office
     shall be exercised and the duties discharged by his designated
     emergency interim successors in the order specified. The
     emergency interim successors, in the order specified, shall
     exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office to
     which designated until the vacancy is filled in accordance with
     the Constitution of Pennsylvania or statutes or until the
     officer, or his deputy or a preceding emergency interim
     successor, ceases to be unavailable.

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