The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed
upon any office, board, commission or similar body under the General
Statutes or any ordinance or regulation, in force at the time this
Charter shall take effect, if such office, board, commission or similar
body or office to which are granted similar powers and jurisdiction,
shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by the commission, board
or similar body, or office upon which are imposed corresponding or
line functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this Charter.
All commissions, boards, similar bodies or offices abolished by this
Charter, whether elective or appointive, shall continue in the performance
of their duties until provisions shall have been made for the discontinuances
of such commissions, boards, similar bodies or offices and the performance
of their duties by other commissions, boards, similar bodies or offices
created under this Charter and until the Town Clerk shall have notified
the members of such commissions, boards, similar bodies or offices
as are abolished by this Charter that their successors have qualified.
All records, property and equipment whatsoever of any commission,
board or similar body or office or part thereof, all the powers and
duties of which are assigned to any other commission, board, similar
body or office by this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered
intact forthwith to the commission, board, similar body or office
to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers
and duties of any commission, board, similar body or office are by
this Charter assigned to another commission, board, similar body or
office, all records, property and equipment relating exclusively thereto
shall be transferred and delivered intact forthwith to the commission,
board, similar body or office to which such powers and duties are
so assigned.
All employees of the Town of the effective date of this Charter
shall retain such positions pending action by the appropriate person
or agency charged by this Charter with powers of appointment or removal
of said employees. Any provisions in force at the time this Charter
shall take effect and not inconsistent with the provisions in this
Charter, in relation to personnel, appointments, ranks, grades, tenure
of office, promotions, removals, pension and retirement rights, civil
rights or any other rights or privileges of employees of the Town
or any office, department, or agency thereof, shall continue in effect,
unless and until amended or repealed in accordance with the provisions
of this Charter.
All appropriations approved and in force and all funds, including
special or reserve funds in the name of the Town, at the time of the
adoption of this Charter shall remain in full force and effect unless
and until the same shall be amended, transferred or abolished by the
Board of Finance under the provisions of this Charter.
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending on the effective
date of this Charter, brought by or against the Town or any board,
commission, similar body, 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
the fact that the functions, powers and duties of any board, commission
or similar body or office party thereto may, by or under this Charter,
be assigned or transferred to another board, commission, similar body
or office to which such functions, powers and duties have been assigned
or transferred by or under this Charter.
On and after the effective date of this Charter, all general
laws and special acts of the State of Connecticut applying to the
Town, all ordinances and bylaws of the Town, and all rules and regulations
of commissions, boards and similar bodies of the Town not inconsistent
with the provisions of this Charter or repealed thereby shall be and
shall continue to remain in full force and effect unless and until
repealed or amended.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed by the
General Statutes. The Board of Selectmen shall review this Charter
from time to time as it deems such review to be in the best interest
of the Town, but not less often than once every five years, said review
to be published as part of the Annual Town Report. The Board of Selectmen
shall appoint a commission not later than five years from effective
date of this Charter, to review, amend or revise said Charter in the
manner prescribed by the General Statutes.
A. This Charter is intended to avail, make use of and exercise the full
home rule powers of the Town under the Home Rule Law and any other
statute now in effect or hereafter enacted and any other home rule
powers thereof under the Constitution of the State of Connecticut,
under the common law, or otherwise.
B. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as intended to conflict
with, or be inconsistent with, any General Statute of the State of
Connecticut expressing any substantial public policy of the state
with which, by Constitution or General Statutes, this Charter is not
permitted to be in conflict or inconsistent. It shall be construed
as an assertion of the Town's full power and authority to prescribe
its organic law for the administration of its local affairs.
C. If any section or part of any section of this Charter shall be held
invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not
affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which said
section or part thereof so held invalid may appear, to the extent
that an entire section of part of a section may be inseparably connected
in meaning and effect with the section or part of the section to which
such ruling shall directly apply.
When the context so requires, the masculine gender shall include
the feminine and the singular shall include the plural and the plural
the singular.
All references to the General Statutes made herein are to the
General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of 1958; and all references
to said General Statutes, to the Special Acts or Special Laws of the
State of Connecticut, and to the ordinances, regulations and bylaws
of the Town of Windsor Locks are to them as they exist on the effective
date of this Charter and as the same may be amended from time to time.
This Charter shall become effective the first Monday of January
1981.