The powers which are conferred and the duties
which are imposed upon all existing boards and commissions and any
other commission, board, department or office under the General Statutes
or special acts concerning the City or any ordinance or regulation
in force at the time this Charter shall take effect shall, unless
otherwise provided in this Charter, thereafter be exercised and discharged
by the commission, board, department, official or official body upon
which are imposed such powers and duties under the provisions of this
Charter, until such time as the City Council directs otherwise by
ordinance or resolution consistent with this Charter.
Except as hereinbefore otherwise provided, all
persons holding permanent positions in the service of the City on
the effective date of this Charter, whose positions are included in
the classified service by the terms of this Charter, shall immediately
become members of the classified service and retain such positions
until promoted, transferred, reduced in rank or removed in accordance
with the provisions of this Charter. All other employees of the City
on the effective date of this Charter whose positions are not abolished
by the provisions of this Charter shall retain such positions pending
action by the City Council or the appropriate officer charged by this
Charter with powers of appointment and removal. Any provision of law
in force at the time when this Charter shall take effect and not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Charter in relation to personnel, appointment,
ranks, grades, tenure of office, promotions, removal, pension and
retirement rights, civil rights or any other rights or privileges
of employees of the City or any office, department or agency thereof
shall continue in effect until or unless amended or repealed by the
City Council.
All records, property and equipment whatsoever
of any commission, board, department or office or part thereof, all
the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other commission,
board, department or office by this Charter, shall be transferred
and delivered intact to the commission, board, department or office
to which such powers or duties are so assigned. If part of the powers
and duties of any commission, board, department or office or part
thereof are by this Charter assigned to another commission, board,
department or office, all records, property and equipment relating
exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered intact to the
commission, board, department or office to which such powers and duties
are so assigned.
No action or proceedings, civil or criminal,
pending on the effective date of this Charter brought by or against
the City or any commission, board, department or office thereof shall
be affected or abated by the adoption of this Charter or by anything
herein contained, but all such actions or proceedings may be continued,
notwithstanding that functions, powers and duties of any commission,
board, department or office party thereto may be or under this Charter
are assigned or transferred to another commission, board, department
or office, but, in that event, the same may be prosecuted or defended
by the head of the commission, board, department or office to which
such functions, powers and duties have been assigned or transferred
by or under this Charter.
All state and municipal laws, ordinances, resolutions,
orders, rules and regulations in force in the City of Meriden at the
time when this Charter takes effect, not inconsistent with its provisions,
shall continue in force until otherwise provided by law, ordinance,
resolution, order or vote.
The renumbering, relocation or consolidation
of any state statute specifically referred to in this Charter which
may be adopted subsequent to the adoption of the Charter shall be
effective to renumber the affected statutory reference as designated
in this Charter.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed
by law.
If any section or part of any section shall
be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holdings
shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in
which said section or part thereof so held invalid may appear except
to the extent that an entire section or part of a section may be inseparably
connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of a section
to which such holdings shall directly apply.
All words used herein in the singular number
shall extend to and include the plural. All words used in the plural
number shall extend to and include the singular. All words used in
any gender shall extend to and include all genders.
This Charter shall become effective on the first
Monday of December 1979, except as otherwise provided herein.
