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the Committee Chairman?

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(There was no response.)

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THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair hears no questions.

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The Chair has one question, Delegate Gallagher,

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with respect to the second sentence, and the same

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language is used in the first sentence.

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What is meant by the phrase "continuity of state

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and local public offices and governmental operations"

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insofar as provisions of the constitution are concerned?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: The meaning of the language

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is that the General Assembly may provide who shall exercise

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powers with respect to state and local public offices in the

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event that all applicable provisions which designate

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who shall succeed to those offices have been exhausted,

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and yet there be no one to succeed to those offices.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Is it limited to that, or could

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the General Assembly provide by law that the provisions

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of the constitution with respect to succession of

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the governor should be suspended during the period of an

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emergency.

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: No, sir, we do not