The powers that are conferred and the duties that are imposed upon any office, agency, board or commission under the CT General Statutes or special acts concerning the Town or any ordinance or regulation in force at the time this Charter shall take effect, if such office, agency, board or commission is abolished by this Charter, shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by the office, agency, board or commission upon which are imposed corresponding or like functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this Charter. All offices, agencies, boards and commissions abolished by this Charter shall continue in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been made for the discontinuance of such offices, agencies, boards or commissions and the performance of their duties by other offices, boards or commissions created under this Charter and until the Town Clerk shall have notified the members of such offices, agencies, boards or commissions as are abolished that their successors have qualified. All powers which are conferred and the duties that are imposed upon the Board of Finance, in force at the time this Charter shall take effect, shall under the CT General Statutes or any ordinance or regulation concerning said Board thereafter be exercised and discharged by the Selectmen unless otherwise specifically provided in this Charter.
All Town records, property and equipment whatsoever of any office, agency, board or commission or part thereof, all the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other office, agency, board or commission by this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered intact to the office, agency, board or commission to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers and duties of any office, agency, board or commission or part thereof are by this Charter assigned to another office, agency, board or commission, all records, property and equipment relating exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered intact to the office, agency, board or commission to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
All employees of the Town, on the effective date of this Charter, shall retain such positions until promoted, transferred, reduced in rank or removed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. Any provision of law in force at the time this Charter shall take effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter, in relation to personnel, appointment, ranks, grades, promotions, removal, 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 until or unless amended or repealed in accordance with 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 office, agency, board or commission 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 functions, powers and duties of any office, agency, board or commission, but in the event the same may be prosecuted or defended by the head of the office, agency, board or commission to which such functions, powers and duties have been assigned or transferred by or under 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.
As of the effective date of this Charter, all general laws and special acts applying to the Town, all ordinances and bylaws of the Town and all rules and regulations of commissions, boards, departments and agencies of the Town shall continue in force, except insofar as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter or are repealed.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed by the CT General Statutes. The Board of Selectmen shall review the several provisions of 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 (5) 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 (5) years from the effective date of this Charter to review, amend or revise said Charter in the manner prescribed by the CT General Statutes.
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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.
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Nothing herein contained shall be construed as intended to conflict with or be inconsistent with any General Statutes of the State of Connecticut expressing any substantial public policy of the state. 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.
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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, 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 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 CT General Statutes made herein are to the General Statutes of Connecticut, as amended.
This Charter shall become effective upon the approval of a majority of the Town electors voting hereon at a regular or special election as determined by the Board of Selectmen and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 99 of the CT General Statutes, as amended.