Oklahoma § 63-686.6 - Maintaining minimum number of successors
Full text of Oklahoma Oklahoma Statutes § 63-686.6 — Maintaining minimum number of successors, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 63-686.6. Maintaining minimum number of successors
Prior to an emergency or disaster, if a legislator fails to
designate the required minimum number of emergency interim
successors within sixty (60) days following the effective date of
this act or, after such period, if for any reason the number of
emergency interim successors for any legislator falls below the
required minimum and remains below such minimum for a period of
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sixty (60) days, then the floor leader of the same political party
in the same house as such legislator shall, by and with the consent
of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, promptly designate as many emergency interim
successors as are required to achieve such minimum number, but the
floor leader shall not assign to any designees a rank in order of
succession higher than that of any remaining emergency interim
successor previously designated by a legislator for succession to
the legislator’s own powers and duties. Each emergency interim
successor designated by the floor leader shall serve at the pleasure
of the designating person, but the legislator for whom the emergency
successor is designated or any subsequent incumbent of the office
may change the rank in order of succession or replace at the
pleasure of the designating person any emergency interim successor
so designated.
Added by Laws 1959, p. 215, § 6, emerg. eff. June 5, 1959. Amended
by Laws 1963, c. 340, § 6, emerg. eff. June 24, 1963; Laws 2003, c.
329, § 38, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 63-686.6 ("Maintaining minimum number of successors") is part of the Oklahoma Statutes, the codified statutory law of Oklahoma. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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