1-12-3. Local emergency proclamation - Emergency interim successor.

(1) If the Chairman of the County Commission is not physically present at the place of governance during a disaster or potential disaster, or is not able to be communicated with via telephone, radio or telecommunications immediately pursuant to an official attempt to communicate with him or her for the purpose of considering or making a local emergency proclamation, then the following County officers or employees shall be contacted pursuant to an official attempt to communicate with them in the order listed below and the first person so contacted shall have the power and duty to proclaim a "local emergency" when the circumstances warrant such a proclamation.

(a) County Commissioner A. Commissioner A is the non-chairman Commissioner whose first letter in his or her last name, alphabetically precedes the first letter in the other County Commissioner's last name. (The other Commissioner is hereby designated Commissioner B).

(b) Commissioner B.

(c) Sheriff

(d) County Attorney

(e) Director of the County Emergency Management Department.

(2) If the foregoing officers or employees are unavailable, then the emergency succession procedures specified in Section 1-12-4 shall apply for the purpose of designating a County Commissioner successor, which successor shall then have authority to issue an emergency proclamation. The successor designated by this section shall only have authority to issue an emergency proclamation. (Ord. 95-19, 9/12/95; Ord. 92-6, 10/20/92)