(5 ILCS 275/9) (from Ch. 102, par. 109)
Sec. 9.
Period in which authority may be exercised.
Officials authorized
to act as governor pursuant to this Act and emergency interim successors
are empowered to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office
as herein authorized only after an attack upon the United States, as defined
herein, has occurred; except that emergency interim successors for local
offices are also empowered to exercise the powers and discharge the duties
of offices as authorized in Sections 6 and 7 during a disaster within a
political subdivision. The legislature may at any time terminate the
authority of such emergency interim successors to exercise the powers and
discharge the duties of office as herein provided.
(Source: P.A. 82-781.)
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