§ 5. Persons eligible to succeed governor. If, as a result of an
attack or a natural or peacetime disaster, the office of governor
becomes vacant and each of the lieutenant governor, the temporary
president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly is unable to
discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor or is absent
from the state, then the officer of the state who is (a) highest in
order of the following list, (b) not otherwise unable to discharge such
powers and duties, and (c) not absent from the state, shall act as
governor: attorney general, comptroller, commissioner of
transportation, commissioner of health, commissioner of commerce,
industrial commissioner, chairman of the public service commission,
secertary of state.