Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 162B > Article 2 - Emergency Interim Succession to Local Offices

• Attack: means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States upon the State of North Carolina causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the State in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or processes. See North Carolina General Statutes 162B-7
• Emergency interim successor: means a person designated pursuant to this Article, in the event the officer is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the statutes, charters and ordinances or until the lawful incumbent is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See North Carolina General Statutes 162B-7
• Office: includes all local offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by statutes, charters and ordinances. See North Carolina General Statutes 162B-7
• Political subdivision: includes counties, cities, towns, townships, districts, authorities and other municipal corporations and entities whether organized and existing under charter or general law. See North Carolina General Statutes 162B-7
• property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Unavailable: means either that a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office (including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy) and his duly authorized deputy are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See North Carolina General Statutes 162B-7
• United States: shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3