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the office shall be vacant. If the Court of Appeals determines that
such officer is unable to discharge the duties of his office by reason
of a temporary disability, it shall declare the office to be vacant
during the time of the disability and the Court shall have continuing
jurisdiction to determine when the disability has terminated. If the
General Assembly and the Court of Appeals, acting in the same man-
ner as described above, determine that the Governor-elect or Lieuten-
ant Governor-elect is unable by reason of physical or mental dis-
ability to perform the duties of the office to which he has been
elected, he shall be disqualified to assume office.
(d) When a vacancy occurs in the office of Governor, the Lieuten-
ant Governor shall succeed to that office for the remamender of the
term. When a vacancy occurs in the office of Lieutenant Governor,
the Governor shall nominate a person who shall succeed to that
office upon confirmation by the affirmative vote of a majority of all
members of the General Assembly in joint session.
(e) If vacancies in the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Gover-
nor exist at the same time, the General Assembly shall convene forth-
with, and the office of Governor shall be filled for the remamender of
the term by the affirmative vote of a majority of all members of the
General Assembly in joint session. The person so chosen as Gover-
nor by the General Assembly shall then nominate a person to succeed
to the office of Lieutenant Governor, upon confirmation by the
affirmative vote of a majority of all members of the General Assem-
bly in the same joint session. The President of the Senate shall serve
as acting Governor until the newly elected Governor has qualified. If
a vacancy exists in the office of Lieutenant Governor, at a time when
the Lieutenant Governor is authorized to serve as acting Governor,
the President of the Senate shall serve as acting Governor. If there
is a vacancy in the office of the President of the Senate at a time
when he is authorized to serve as acting Governor, the Senate shall
forthwith convene and fill the vacancy.
(f) When the Lieutenant Governor or a person elected by the
General Assembly succeeds to the office of Governor, he shall have
the title, powers, duties, and emoluments of that office; but when the
Lieutenant Governor or the president of the Senate serves as acting
Governor, he shall have only the powers and duties of that office.
When the President of the Senate serves as acting Governor, he shall
continue to be President of the Senate, but his duties as president
shall be performed by such other person as the Senate shall select.
(g) The Court of Appeals shall have original and exclusive juris-
diction to adjudicate disputes or questions arising from the failure
of the Governor-elect to take office, or the service of the Lieutenant
Governor or President of the Senate as acting Governor, or the
creation of a vacancy in the office of Governor or Lieutenant Gover-
nor by reason of disability, or the succession to the office of Governor
or Lieutenant Governor, or the exercise of the powers and duties of
a successor to the office of Governor.
1.
[In case of any vacancy in the office of Governor, and until the
General Assembly meets in session with a quorum present and elects
a Governor as provided for in Section 6, the president of the Senate,
at the time such vacancy occurred, shall discharge the duties of said
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