As used in this chapter, the following terms shall mean and
include:
ATTACK
Any attack, actual or imminent, or series of attacks by an
enemy or foreign nation upon the United States, causing, or which
may cause substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons
in the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs,
shell fire or nuclear, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or
biological means or other weapons or processes.
DULY AUTHORIZED DEPUTY
A person authorized to perform all the powers and duties
of a public office in the event that the office is vacant or at such
times as it lacks administration due to the death, absence or disability
of the incumbent officer, where such authorization is provided pursuant
to the provisions of any general or special law other than the sections
of law pursuant to which this chapter is adopted.
EMERGENCY INTERIM SUCCESSOR
A person designated pursuant to this chapter for possible
temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office,
of a town officer in the event that neither such officer nor any duly
authorized deputy is able due to death, absence from the town or other
physical, mental or legal reasons to perform the powers and duties
of the office.
PUBLIC DISASTER
A disaster, catastrophe or emergency, actual or imminent,
of such unusual proportions or extent that a substantial number of
the residents of the town either sustain injury, become ill, are infected
with disease, have their lives imperiled, are killed or die as the
result of injury, disease or exposure or the property of a substantial
number of such residents is imperiled, damaged or destroyed, and it
is necessary and essential in the interest of public safety, health
and welfare that the continuity of the government of the town be assured
in order that it be enabled to function properly and efficiently and
to exercise its essential powers in meeting emergency conditions.
Such disasters, catastrophes and emergencies may include, but shall
not be limited to, conflagrations, explosions, earthquakes or other
convulsions of nature, floods, tidal waves, pestilence, riots, insurrections,
storms, prolonged failure of electric power or essential transportation
services or any incident or occurrence which causes or threatens to
cause danger to life, health or property from exposure to noxious
materials or radiation.
TOWN
The Town of Oyster Bay.
The name, address and rank in order of succession of each duly
authorized deputy and emergency interim successor shall be filed with
the Town Clerk, and each designation, replacement or change in order
of succession of any emergency interim successor shall become effective
when the designator files with such Clerk the successor's name,
address and rank in order of such succession. Such Clerk shall keep
an up-to-date file of all such data regarding duly authorized deputies
and emergency interim successors and the same shall be open to public
inspection. The Clerk shall notify, in writing, each designated person
of the filing of his name as an emergency interim successor and his
rank in order of succession and also shall notify, in writing, any
person previously designated who is replaced or whose place in order
of succession is changed.
At the time of their designation or as soon thereafter as possible,
emergency interim successors shall take such oath and do such other
things, if any, as may be required to qualify them to perform the
powers and duties of the office to which they may succeed.
In the event of an attack or a public disaster, the Supervisor,
or his duly authorized deputy or emergency interim successor performing
his powers and duties, may suspend quorum requirements for the Town
Board. If quorum requirements are suspended, any ordinance, resolution
or other action requiring enactment, adoption or approval by an affirmative
vote of a specified proportion of members may be enacted, adopted
or approved by the affirmative vote of the specified proportion of
those voting thereon.
Any provision of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, the persons holding the following offices shall assume the powers and duties of the office of Supervisor, as emergency interim successor, in the events described in §
20-2G hereof, in the following order of succession: First, the Deputy Supervisor and then, successively, in the order of seniority, the Councilmen.