Subject to pertinent enabling legislation authorizing a Home Rule Charter, this Charter shall supersede all statutes or parts of statutes local, special, or general, and all ordinances of the Borough of Monroeville affecting the organization, government and powers of the Municipality to the extent that they are inconsistent or in conflict with this Charter.
All statutes, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations, or portions thereof, in force when this Charter takes effect and not in conflict herewith, are hereby continued in force and effect until amended, repealed, superseded or expired by their own terms.
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time this Charter shall take effect, brought by or against the Municipality or any office, department, agency or officer thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this Charter or by anything herein contained.
All contracts entered into by the Municipality, or for its benefit, prior to the taking effect of this Charter, shall continue in full force and effect. Public improvements for which legislative steps have been taken under laws existing at the time this Charter takes effect may be carried to completion as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of such existing laws. All taxes and assessments levied or assessed, all fines and penalties imposed, and all other obligations owing to the Municipality which are uncollected at the time this Charter becomes effective, shall continue in full force and effect and shall be collected as if no change had been made.
The Municipality's membership and participation in any Municipal Authority at the time this Charter is adopted shall continue and the persons representing the Municipality on the board of any such Authority shall continue in office until the normal expiration of their terms or until their successors are appointed.
A. 
If a municipal department, office, agency, board, commission or other entity is abolished by this Charter, the powers and duties given it by law shall be transferred to the municipal department office, agency, board, commission or other entity designated in this Charter or, if the Charter makes no provision, designated by Council.
B. 
Except as otherwise provided in the Charter, all boards and commissions in existence at the time of the adoption of this Charter shall continue and the persons representing the Municipality on any such board or commission shall continue in office until the normal expiration of their terms or until their successors are appointed. Thereafter, persons appointed shall serve terms as designated by ordinance adopted pursuant to this Charter.
A. 
The Civil Service Commission of the Borough of Monroeville, existing as of the effective date of the Charter shall continue in office for the purpose of disposing of appeals.
B. 
No new appeals shall be entered with said Commission after the first organizational meeting of the Personnel Board.
C. 
Upon rendering its decision in its final case, the Civil Service Commission shall be dissolved.