The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed
upon any commission, board, department or office under the 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 commission, board, department or office is abolished by this
Charter, shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by the commission,
board, department or office upon which are imposed corresponding or
like functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this Charter.
All commissions, boards, departments 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 discontinuance
of such commissions, boards, departments or offices and the performance
of their duties by other commissions, boards, departments or offices
created under this Charter and until the Town Clerk shall have notified
the members of such commissions, boards, departments or offices as
are abolished by this Charter that their successors have been appointed.
Any person holding an office or position in the classified service
of the Town when this Charter takes effect who shall have served in
such position for a period of at least three months shall be retained
without preliminary or working tests and shall thereafter be subject
in all respects to the provisions of this Charter. Other persons in
the Town service at the time this Charter takes effect shall be regarded
as holding their positions under provisional appointments.
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
and 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. An inventory
shall accompany the transfer.
No contribution by the Town of more than $500 in cash shall
be made to any organization or private corporation unless included
in the budget. In kind contributions to Town-sponsored, charitable,
or nonprofit organization events shall be exempt from this provision
with Town Council approval.
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending on the effective
date of this Charter brought by or against the Town or any commission,
board, department or office thereof shall be affected or abated by
the adoption of this Charter or by any provision of this Charter,
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 by or
under this Charter be 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.
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 provision of this Charter, until they
are amended or repealed by ordinance of the Council or the appropriate
body having jurisdiction. All special acts or part of acts relating
to the Town inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter are repealed.
This Charter shall be reviewed no less than once every 10 years and
may be amended in accordance with the provisions of the General Statutes.
Any amendment to the Charter shall be made in accordance with
the provisions of § 7-191 of the General Statutes of Connecticut,
or any amendments thereto.
There shall be a Code of Ethics governing the conduct of elected
and appointed officers and employees of the Town of Plainville which
the Town Council shall, by ordinance, provide.
Any reference to gender shall be applicable to both the masculine
and feminine genders.
If 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 the section or part of a
section 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 holding
shall directly apply.