Effect upon provisions of existing law of adoption of ordinance regulating
subject matter thereof. Until superseded as herein provided, all provisions
of law regulating the exercise of the powers and the performance of
the duties of officers and employees of any city shall continue in
full force and effect. The Council under any one of the plans of government
defined in this article as Plan A, B, C, D, E or F shall have power,
subject to the provisions of this article, to confer by ordinance
upon any officer or employee of the city any powers or to impose upon
any such officer or employee any duties, theretofore conferred or
imposed upon any officer or employee by provision of law, and such
powers or duties shall thereupon devolve upon or be discharged by
such officer or employee upon whom the same shall have been so conferred
or imposed; but the provisions of law regulating the exercise of such
powers or the performance of such duties shall, subject to being superseded
as herein provided, continue in force and apply to the exercise or
performance thereof by the officer or employee upon whom such powers
or duties are conferred or imposed, and whenever by any such ordinance
all the powers and duties of any appointive officer or employee of
the city are conferred or imposed upon one or more other officers
or employees, such ordinance may abolish the office or employment
held by the officer or employee whose powers and duties shall have
ceased, and thereupon the term of office or employment of such officer
or employee shall expire. The Council under any one of the plans of
government defined in this article as Plan A, B, C, D, E or F shall,
subject to the provisions of this article, have power to regulate
by ordinance the exercise of any power and the performance of any
duty by any officer or employee of the city; and upon the passing
of any such ordinance, every provision of the Charter or of the Second
Class Cities Law, applicable to such city, regulating the matters
or any of them provided for in such ordinance shall cease to have
any force or effect in such city. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the repeal or superseding of any provisions of
law regulating the manner in which, or the conditions subject to which,
franchises may be granted, or city real estate leased or sold, or
municipal indebtedness incurred in any city, except to the extent
of transferring powers or duties relating thereto to officers or employees
of the city; and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize
the repeal or superseding of any provision of law requiring any matter
to be submitted to the vote of the electors or taxpayers. (L. 1914,
Ch. 444, § 37)