West Virginia Code § 15-7-5

Status, qualifications and term of emergency interim successors
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An emergency interim successor is one who is designated for possible temporary succession
to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. No person shall be designated or
serve as an emergency interim successor unless he may under the Constitution and statutes
hold the office of the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed, but
no Constitutional or statutory provision prohibiting a legislator from holdinge another office
or prohibiting the holder of another office from being a legislator shall be applicable to an
emergency interim successor. An emergency interim successor shall serrve at the pleasure of
the legislator designating him or of any subsequent incumbent of the legislative office.

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