The functions, powers and duties of the County government as of the effective date of the code, as amended, are allocated and assigned among and within the departments established by the code. The offices, boards, commissions, agencies and their personnel are continued or transferred, respectively, as provided for in the text of the code.
All officers and employees who were in the classified service of the civil service on the effective date of this code, as amended, are transferred to the appropriate department, division or agency to which their respective functions, powers and duties are allocated and assigned by the code, and they shall not, by such transfer, be adversely affected in tenure, pension, seniority or promotional rights.
As of the effective date of this code, except as otherwise provided herein, all personnel and all records and property of the County are transferred to their respective departments, offices and agencies to which their administrative functions, powers and duties are allocated and assigned by the code. In any case where the appropriate depository is unclear or in doubt the said property shall be delivered to the County Executive, or his/her designee. All documents, when filed under the Administrative Code, shall constitute public records, subject to appropriate provisions of law.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:41A-34 and N.J.S.A. 40:41A-100(d), maximum rates of compensation, established for persons holding office or employment on the effective date of the code, as amended, shall be continued with respect to the office, position, or employment which they hold; and beginning in the calendar year 1987, and in each an every year thereafter, the limits of the aforesaid maximum rates of compensation shall be increased by a percentage rate which is equal to the average percentage of the increases given to the nonuniform union employees of the County in said year.
Pension Fund membership and rights of any officer or employee shall not, without his/her consent, be adversely affected by any transfer pursuant to the code. The County Executive shall provide, by appropriate regulation for necessary records, contribution controls and other procedures for the further protection of the Pension Fund membership and the rights of officers and employees in accordance with this section, as the need appears.
The various appropriations, in the budget of the County for the fiscal year in which this code takes effect, are hereby transferred to the department, office or agency of the County government to which the functions, powers and duties, for which such appropriations were made, are transferred; such appropriations shall continue to be available for the objects and purposes for which they respectively were made in said budget as adopted. As soon as practicable, the County Executive shall transmit to the Board an appropriate resolution, in the form required by the Division of Local Government Services pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-85, to make such corrections of the title, text or amount of any item or appropriation appearing in the County budget, as adopted, as may be necessary to make any or all of such items of appropriation conform with the organization of the County government; the allocation of functions, powers, and duties prescribed by or pursuant to the code; however, the available overall total of budgeted expenditures shall not be increased thereby; nor shall any item or appropriation required for debt service, contingent expenses, deferred charges, statutory expenditures, judgments or reserves be reduced or limited thereby.
All ordinances and resolutions heretofore adopted and in force and effect on the effective date of this code shall remain in full force and effect to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the Charter or this code. All ordinances and resolutions and parts thereof heretofore enacted, which are inconsistent with any provision of the Charter or this code, to the extent of such inconsistency, are hereby repealed. All boards, commissions, authorities of County government existing prior to the adoption of this code, and all ordinances and resolutions relating thereto, whose functions or powers are superseded or exercised or otherwise provided for in this code are hereby abolished and repealed.
The adoption of the code shall not in any way impair the obligation of the County with respect to indebtedness or the debt service thereon heretofore unlawfully incurred by the County or any of its autonomous agencies.
If any article, section or part of this code shall be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, such article, section or part shall, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative, remain in full force and effect; no such determination shall be deemed to invalidate the remaining articles, sections or parts of this code.
This code, as amended, shall take effect in the manner provided by law, in the discretion of the County Executive.