Fire districts existing in the town at the effective date of this charter shall continue in all respects as now provided by law, subject to the provisions of this charter. In the event of the elimination of the several fire districts or either of them or the assumption of the fire protection service of the several fire districts or either of them by the town as provided in section 5-5(d), the council may by ordinance establish a town fire department. In the event of elimination of the several fire districts or either of them, the council may by ordinance take over all the powers and duties of said districts, provided an agreement concerning the disposition of or compensation for the property of such fire districts or either of them shall be entered into by the council and said fire districts before such ordinance shall take effect.
Nothing in this charter, except as provided in Chapter 2, in section 5-2 subsection (c) and Chapter 8 relating to the filing of budget requests and the preparation and submission of the budget by the town manager, shall be construed to affect in any way the powers and duties of the board of education or the conduct of the public schools; provided the determination of the annual and other appropriations for school purposes shall rest with the council.
The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed
upon any commission, board or office under the general statutes or
special acts concerning the town, or any ordinance or regulation in
force at the time this act shall take effect, if such commission,
board, or office is abolished by this act, shall be thereafter exercised
and discharged by the department, commission, board, division or office
upon which are imposed corresponding or like functions, powers and
duties under the provisions of this act. All commissions, boards or
officers abolished by this act, whether elected or appointed, shall
continue in the performance of their duties until provision shall
have been made for the discontinuance of such commissions, boards
or officers and the performance of their duties by other departments,
commissions, boards, divisions or officers created under this act
and until the clerk of the council shall have notified the members
of such commissions and boards or officers as are abolished by this
act that their successors have been appointed.
All general laws applicable to the town and all ordinances of
the town shall continue in full force and effect, except as they are
inconsistent with the provisions of this charter. All special acts
or parts of special acts relating to the town are repealed with the
exception of the following, which shall continue to apply in full
force and effect except as they are inconsistent with the provisions
of this charter: An act relating to ecclesiastical societies, passed
May, 1792; an act concerning the validity of town meetings, passed
1809; an act incorporating the Windsor Fire Company, passed May, 1831,
as amended 1853; an act incorporating a part of Windsor as Bloomfield,
passed May 1835; an act annexing a part of Farmington to Windsor,
passed May 1830; an act establishing the division line between Bloomfield
and Windsor, passed 1841; act relating to school societies, passed
1851, approved July 26, 1867, July 21, 1875, May 8, 1889, and March
19, 1907; an act incorporating a part of Windsor as Windsor Locks,
passed 1854; an act changing the name of St. Gabriel's Parish,
Windsor, approved July 7, 1865; an act concerning the cession of a
portion of the town of Windsor to the city of Hartford, approved June
2, 1897; an act incorporating the Windsor Library Association, approved
June 10, 1901; an act incorporating the Windsor Fire District, approved
May 12, 1915, as amended 1921, 1925, 1927, and 1929; an act establishing
a commission on town planning, approved April 3, 1917; an act validating
the transfer of part of the town of Bloomfield to Windsor, approved
July 22, 1925; an act relating to assessments for paving streets in
Windsor, approved May 1, 1929; An act establishing the town court
of Windsor, approved May 1 1929, as amended in 1931, 1937 and 1939;
an act establishing three voting districts, approved March 19, 1931;
an act establishing a zoning commission, approved May 1, 1931; an
act validating certain sales under tax warrant, approved June 9, 1933;
an act relating to the registration and admission of electors, approved
March 22, 1935; an act providing for the widening of the highway between
the Hartford city line and center of the town of Windsor, approved
June 20, 1939; an act validating certain sales by the tax collector
and validating certain deeds, approved June 18, 1941; an act including
a portion of Rainbow Road in the town of Windsor in the trunk line
system, approved May 15, 1943; an act validating certain sales approved
July 12, 1943; an act concerning the election of members of the board
of education in Windsor, approved June 13, 1945; an act concerning
the filing of assessment lists, approved June 13, 1945; an act concerning
a building inspector for the town of Windsor and for the Windsor fire
district, approved June 13, 1945; and any other acts under which any
rights or obligations may have accrued under section 2 hereof; and
that portion of section 263 of the general statutes, revision of 1918,
relating to registrars of voters, reprinted on pages 1 and 2 of the
supplement to the special laws passed at the session of 1931 as directed
by chapter 258 of the public acts of 1929.
Should any provision of this act be declared unconstitutional
such action shall not affect the validity of any other provision thereof.
This act shall take effect upon its approval by a majority of
the electors of the town of Windsor voting by voting machine at a
special election called for the purpose before July 1, 1947.
Superseded by 1957, P.A. 465 and amendments thereto, (Section
7-192 of the General Statutes).
