§ 10.16. Disaster clause.  


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  • In case of disaster when a legal quorum of elected Councilmen cannot otherwise be assembled due to multiple deaths or injuries, the surviving member or members of the elected Council or highest surviving City official, if no elected official remains, must within twenty-four (24) hours of such disaster request the highest surviving officers of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trustees of the local school district, and the County Judge of Dallas County to appoint a commission to act during the emergency and call a City election within fifteen (15) days of such disaster for election of a required quorum, if for good reasons it is known a quorum of the present Council will never again meet.