If this Charter cannot take effect in its entirety because of
the judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction holding invalid
any part or parts thereof, the remaining provisions of this Charter
shall be given full force and effect as completely as if the part
or parts held invalid had not been included herein. If it shall be
finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any provisions
of this Charter transferring to an office, department, board or commission
the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by an officer,
department, board or commission abolished by this Charter, the provisions
abolishing such office, department, board or commission shall thereby
become inoperative, and that in such event, such office, department,
board or commission shall not be abolished but shall continue as prior
to the adoption of this Charter. The remaining provisions of this
Charter shall in any such case be given full force and effect.
This Charter shall supersede all previous Charters and amendments
thereto.
This Charter shall supersede all statutes or parts of statutes,
local, special or general, and all ordinances of the city, to the
extent that they are inconsistent with this Charter, and all statutes
and ordinances not inconsistent with this Charter shall continue in
full force and effect until the council shall otherwise ordain.
[Amended Ref. of 11-6-1990, Sec. 7]
Every word used in the Charter importing the masculine gender
shall be construed to extend to and to include both the masculine
and feminine genders.
[Amended Ref. of 11-6-1990, Sec. 7; Ref. of 11-2-2010]
In the year 2015 and every fourth year thereafter and whenever
the mayor or council finds necessary, the mayor shall appoint, with
council approval, a charter review commission, to consist of nine
or eleven members, chosen so as to be broadly representative of the
residents of the city. Such commissions shall review the charter,
hold hearings to receive comment from public officials and from the
general public, and frame for submission to the council for its consideration
and action, and to the mayor, such draft amendments to the charter
as it may consider appropriate. Each such commission shall have one
year from the date of its organization to complete its work and submit
its report. All such commissions shall serve without compensation,
but shall request of the council such assistance and funding as they
may require to carry out their responsibilities.
