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Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-685.4: Emergency interim succession to office of Governor

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  2. Title 63

Whenever a natural or man-made disaster or emergency occurs in

the United States, and in the event that the Governor, for any of

the reasons specified in Article VI, Section 16 of the Oklahoma

Constitution, is not able to exercise the powers and discharge the

duties of the Governor’s office, or is unavailable, and in the event

the Lieutenant Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and

the Speaker of the House of Representatives be for any of the

reasons specified in the Constitution not able to exercise the

powers and discharge the duties of the office of Governor, or be

unavailable, the State Auditor and Inspector, Attorney General,

State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner

of Labor, and members of the Corporation Commission in the order of

their election districts, shall each in the order named, if no

officer higher in the enumerated order is available, exercise the

powers and discharge the duties of the office of Governor until a

new Governor is elected and qualified; provided, however, that no

emergency interim successor to the aforementioned offices may serve

as Governor.

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