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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 27', '§ 6']

City of Batavia, NY Continuity of Government
§ 6-2 Intent.
§ 6-4 Designation, status, qualifications and terms of designation of emergency interim successors.
§ 6-5 Assumption of powers and duties of officer by emergency interim successor.
§ 6-6 Recording and publication of designations.
§ 6-7 Qualification for taking office.
§ 6-8 Quorum and vote requirements.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Batavia 1-26-1981 as Ch. 102 of the 1981 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Continuity of Government Law of the City of Batavia."
§ 6-2 Intent. [1]
The New York State Defense Emergency Act, in section twenty-nine-a thereof, authorizes political subdivisions of the state to provide for the continuity of their governments in the event of an actual or imminent attack upon the United States by an enemy or foreign nation. The Executive Law, in § 27 thereof, authorizes political subdivisions to provide for the continuity of their governments in the event of other public disasters, catastrophes or emergencies. Based on the authority contained in such laws, this chapter is adopted so that on such occasions the government of the City of Batavia, New York may continue to function properly and efficiently under emergency circumstances.
A disaster, catastrophe or emergency, actual or imminent, of such unusual proportions or extent that (1) a substantial number of the residents of the City of Batavia 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 (2) it is necessary and essential in the interest of public safety, health and welfare that the continuity of the government of the City of Batavia 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.
Appointive officers. Each officer or body of officers empowered by law to appoint officers shall within the time specified in Subsection A of this section, in addition to any duly authorized deputy, designate for each such appointive officer such number of emergency interim successors to such officers and specify their rank in order of succession after any duly authorized deputy so that there will be not less than three duly authorized deputies or emergency interim successors, or combination thereof, for each such officer. Where such a body of officers shall review and, as necessary, revise the previous designations of emergency interim successors by such board within 30 days after a new member elected or appointed to such body of officers first enters upon the duties of his or her office as a member of such body of officers.
If, in the event of an attack or a public disaster, an officer described in Subsection A or B of § 6-4 of this chapter or his or her duly authorized deputy, if any, is unable, due to death, absence from the city or other physical, mental or legal reasons, to perform the powers and duties of the office, the emergency interim successor of such officer highest in rank in order of succession who is able to perform the powers and duties of the office shall, except for the power and duty to discharge or replace duly authorized deputies and emergency interim successors of such officer, perform the powers and duties of such officer. An emergency interim successor shall perform such powers and duties only until such time as the lawful incumbent officer or his or her duly authorized deputy, if any, or an emergency interim successor higher in rank in order of succession resumes the office or undertakes the performance of the powers and duties of the office, as the case may be, or until, where an actual vacancy exists, a successor is duly elected or appointed to fill such vacancy and qualifies as provided by law.
In the event of an attack or a public disaster the President, or his or her duly authorized deputy or emergency interim successor performing his or her powers and duties, may suspend quorum requirements for the Council. If quorum requirements are suspended, any local law, 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.