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.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 29, Ethics, Code of.
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.