(a) 
The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any commission, board, department, agency 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this Charter shall take effect, if such commission, board, department, agency or office is abolished by this Charter or superseded by the creation herein of a new commission, board, department, agency or office to which are granted similar powers and jurisdiction, shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by the commission, board, department, agency or office upon which are imposed corresponding or like functions, powers and duties under the provisions of this Charter.
(b) 
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, agencies or offices created under this Charter and until the Town Clerk shall have notified the members of such commission, board, department, agency or office as are abolished by this Charter that their successors have qualified.
(c) 
All elected and appointed officials and elected members of boards and commissions whose offices and positions are not abolished by this Charter and whose terms of office do not expire until after the effective date of this Charter shall remain in office until the expiration of their terms or until their successors are elected and qualified.
All employees and appointive officials of the Town on the effective date of this Charter, whose positions are not abolished by the provisions of this Charter, shall retain such positions pending action by the Town Council or the appropriate officer charged by this Charter with powers of appointment or removal. Any provisions 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, 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any commission, board, department, agency or office thereof, shall continue to be in effect, until or unless amended or repealed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
Any records, property and equipment whatsoever of any commission, board, department, agency or office or part thereof, all the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other commission, board, department, agency or office by this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered intact forthwith to the commission, board, department, agency or office to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers and duties of any commission, board, department, agency or office are by this Charter assigned to another commission, board, department, agency or office all records, property and equipment relating exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered intact forthwith to the commission, board, department, agency or office to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
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 under the provisions of this Charter.
No action or proceedings, civil or criminal, pending on the effective date of this Charter brought by or against the Town or any commission, board, department, agency 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 that functions, powers, and duties of any commission, board, department, agency or office which shall have been a party thereto may, by or under this Charter, be assigned or transferred to another commission, board, department, agency or office but in that 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 general laws of the State of Connecticut applicable to the Town and all ordinances of the Town shall continue in full force and effect, except insofar as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter. The provisions of all Special Acts of General Assembly relating to the Town of New Milford, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter are hereby retained. All references in this Charter to the "General Statutes" or "Connecticut General Statutes" shall mean the Connecticut General Statutes.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed by state statutes. The Town Council shall review the special 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.
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.
The effective date of this Charter shall be December 6, 2018, and shall become effective upon approval by a majority of the Town electors voting hereon at a regular or special election as determined by the Town Council and in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 99 of the General Statutes.
With respect to this Charter, words in the masculine include the feminine gender.
The Town Council shall be responsible for maintaining, through Ordinance, a Code of Ethics, pertaining to all town officials, in accordance with Section 7-148h of the Connecticut General Statutes. Upon commencement of a Charter Revision Commission, the Town Council shall review the Code of Ethics for potential revisions.