2872                            County Local Laws

4.    Review of Designation. The County Executive shall review
at least annually and, as necessary, revise all executive designations
of "emergency interim successors" to insure that, at all times, the
required number of persons are duly listed as available or designated
as "emergency interim successors".

5.    Qualifications. No person shall be designated or serve as
an "emergency interim successor" unless he may under the Constitu-
tion and statutes of this State and the Charter or laws of this
County, hold the office of the person to whose powers and duties he
is designated to succeed. No provision of the Charter of Montgomery
County or any local law prohibiting an officer or an employee of this
County from holding another office shall be applicable to any "emer-
gency interim successor." No person shall be designated as an "emer-
gency interim successor" to the powers and duties of any appointed
official of the executive branch of the County government unless
such person is a regular employee or official of the same department,
office or agency as the official to whose powers and duties he is
designated to succeed, provided, however, that this restriction shall
not apply to "emergency interim successors" to the powers and duties
of the Chief Administrative Officer.

6.    Status of "Emergency Interim Successor." A person desig-
nated as an "emergency interim successor" holds that designation at
the pleasure of the designator; provided, that he must be replaced if
removed. He retains this designation as "emergency interim succes-
sor" until replaced by another appointee by the authorized designator.

(c)    Assumption of Powers and Duties by "Emergency Interim
Successors."

In the event that any incumbent named in subsections 2 and 3 of
(b) of this Act and any duly authorized deputy is unavailable during
a proclaimed state of public emergency, his "emergency interim
successor" highest in rank in order of succession who is not unavail-
able shall, except for the power and duty to appoint "emergency
interim successors," exercise the powers and discharge the duties of
such incumbent. All "emergency interim successors" shall exercise
these powers and discharge these duties only until such time as the
lawful incumbent or any duly authorized deputy or "emergency in-
terim successor" higher in rank in order of succession exercises or
resumes the exercise of, the powers and discharge of the duties of
the office, or until, where an actual vacancy exists, a successor if
appointed to fill such vacancy or is elected and qualified as provided
by law.

(d)    The name, address and rank in order of succession of each
duly authorized deputy shall be filed with the County Council and each
designation, replacement, or change in order of succession of an
"emergency interim successor" shall become effective when the desig-