N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 784/51 § 5: Persons eligible to succeed governor

§ 5. Persons eligible to succeed governor. If, as a result of an

attack or a natural or peacetime disaster, the office of governor

becomes vacant and each of the lieutenant governor, the temporary

president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly is unable to

discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor or is absent

from the state, then the officer of the state who is (a) highest in

order of the following list, (b) not otherwise unable to discharge such

powers and duties, and (c) not absent from the state, shall act as

governor: attorney general, comptroller, commissioner of

transportation, commissioner of health, commissioner of commerce,

industrial commissioner, chairman of the public service commission,

secertary of state.