2016 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
CHAPTER 78. EMERGENCY INTERIM EXECUTIVE SUCCESSION ACT
§ 7804. Emergency interim successors for state officers.

All state officers, subject to such regulations as the Governor (or other official authorized under the Constitution to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office of Governor) may issue, shall, upon approval of this chapter, in addition to any deputy authorized pursuant to law to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, designate by title emergency interim successors and specify their order of succession. The officer shall review and revise as necessary designations made pursuant to this chapter to insure their current status. The officer will designate a sufficient number of such emergency interim successors so that there will be not less than 3 nor more than 7 such deputies or emergency interim successors or any combination thereof, at any time. In the event that any state officer is unavailable following an attack, and in the event the officer's deputy, if any, is also unavailable, the said powers of the officer's office shall be exercised and said duties of the officer's office shall be discharged by the officer's designated emergency interim successors in the order specified. Such emergency interim successors shall exercise said powers and discharge said duties only until such time as the Governor under the Constitution or authority other than this chapter (or other official authorized under the Constitution to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office of Governor) may, where a vacancy exists, appoint a successor to fill the vacancy or until a successor is otherwise appointed, or elected and qualified as provided by law, or an officer (or the officer's deputy or a preceding named emergency interim successor) becomes available to exercise or resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office.

29 Del. C. 1953, § 7804; 54 Del. Laws, c. 108; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;