Section 1
SECTION 1. Section twenty-one hundred and twenty-six of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2126. Vacancies in municipal offices.—(a) In case r of a temporary vacancy in any municipal office the same shall be filled by appointment by the provincial governor, with the consent of the provincial board. (b) In case of a permanent vacancy in any municipal; office the same shall be filled by appointment by the provincial board, except in case of a municipal president, in which the permanent vacancy shall be filled by the municipal vice-president. (c) In case of the failure of an election for any municipal office, or when the officer elect declines to qualify or dies before qualifying, or there is no successor for any other reason, such successor shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be appointed by the provincial board or elected at a special election convened by the Governor-General the same as other special elections."