A. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, all elected or nonelected officers whose successors are by this Charter required to be elected or appointed shall continue to hold their respective offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected or appointed and perform the duties of their respective offices as prescribed herein and be subject to the removal therefrom as though they were originally appointed or elected to office under the provisions of this Charter.
B. 
The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon the officer, board, commission, or department under any laws of the state or by any ordinance or local law in force at the time of the taking effect of this Charter, whose title is changed by this Charter, shall be exercised and discharged by the officer, board, commission or department upon which is imposed the corresponding or like functions, powers and duties under and pursuant to the provisions of this Charter.
C. 
All officers and employees of the city who shall hold office or be employed under and subject to Civil Service Law and rules thereunder when this Charter shall take effect shall continue in their respective positions and employment and in their respective civil service classification and status as officers or employees of the city, insofar as such may be consistent with the provisions of this Charter.
Whenever, by any provisions of this Charter, any functions, powers or duties heretofore exercised by an officer, department, board, commission or agency, all the officers and employees in the classified civil service, who at the time when this Charter shall take effect, are engaged in the performance of such functions, powers or duties, shall be transferred to the office, department, board, commission or agency to which such functions, powers or duties are assigned by this Charter without examination and without affecting existing compensation, pension or retirement rights, privileges or obligations of such officers and employees.
The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any officer, department, board, commission or agency of the city by any laws of the state, or by any ordinance or local law, shall, if such officer, department, board, commission or agency be abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, department, board, commission or agency upon which are imposed corresponding or like powers, duties, and functions pursuant to the provisions of this Charter.
All records, property and equipment of any office, department, board, commission or agency, the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other office, department, board, commission or agency by this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department, board, commission or agency to which such powers and duties are assigned.
Upon adoption of this Charter, the previous Charter of the City of Gloversville and acts amendatory thereto, is repealed, and all laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations and parts thereof relating to or affecting the city when this Charter takes effect, to the extent to which they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter and no further, are hereby repealed and superseded.
This Charter shall take effect on the first day of January 1999 except as otherwise provided in this Charter.
If any section, clause or provisions of this Charter shall be held unconstitutional, invalid or ineffective in whole or in part, or inapplicable to any person or situation, it is the purpose and intent of this Charter that all other sections, clauses and provisions thereof shall nevertheless be separably and fully effective, and that the application of any such section, clause or provision to other persons or situations shall not be affected. This Charter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its objectives and purposes.
This Charter may only be amended in the manner provided by law.
The terms of office of all officers elected as provided in this Charter shall commence on the first day of January next following their election, except as otherwise provided by this Charter or by law. Except as otherwise provided by this Charter or by law, when the term of any elective or appointive officer shall be for a year or series of years, such terms of office shall be computed from the first day of January. For the purpose of determining when the term of such office shall end, the year in which the officer shall take office shall be deemed to be the entire year, although such officer may not have taken office until after such calendar year shall have begun, so that the terms of office of all such offices shall terminate at the end of the calendar year.
[Amended 5-24-2011 by L.L. No. 8-2011[1]]
A. 
The twelve-seat Common Council shall be abolished effective December 31, 1999, and the terms of all twelve Councilmen in office at the time shall expire on said date. Commencing January 1, 2000, the Common Council shall consist of seven members in accordance with § C-8 of this Charter. The election for such seven members shall occur at the general election held in November 1999. The first term of the Councilman at Large shall commence on January 1, 2000, and shall be for the term of two years and, thereafter, for four-year terms. The first term of the other six Councilmen shall commence on January 1, 1999, and shall be for four-year terms.
B. 
For the 2015 election year, the Councilmen elected by the voters in Wards one, three and five shall be elected to a term of two years, and commencing in 2017, and each election thereafter, the aforesaid Councilmen shall be elected for four-year terms.
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Editor's Note: This local law was ratified by local referendum at the November 2011 general election.
The proposition that this Charter be adopted shall be submitted to the electors of the city at the general election on November 3, 1998, in accordance with Subdivision 5 of § 36, Article 4, of the Municipal Home Rule Law. At such election there shall be submitted the question: "Shall the new City Charter proposed by the City Charter Commission be adopted?" At least ten (10) days before such election, this Charter shall be published in full at least once in the official newspaper of the city.