SECTION 115 . CONSENTS.

   No consent of the owner of property abutting on any highway or public ground shall be required by the Council as a condition of its authority to authorize the construction, extension, maintenance, or operation of any public utility by original grant or renewal, unless such public utility is of such a character that its construction or operation is an additional burden upon the rights of the property owners in such highways or public grounds.

SECTION 116 . REGULATIONS.

   The Council shall at all times control the distribution of space in, over, under or across all streets or public grounds occupied by public utility fixtures. All rights granted for the construction and operation of public utilities shall be subject to the continuing right of Council to require such reconstruction, re-location, change or discontinuance of the appliances used by the utility in the streets, alleys, avenues, and highways, of the City, as shall in the opinion of the Council be necessary in the public interest.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 117 . OFFICIAL BONDS.

   The Council in fixing the salary of any officer, clerk or employee shall determine whether such officer, clerk, or employee shall give a bond, the amount thereof, which bond shall be given by such officer, clerk or employee with security to the approval of the Mayor and Council and be then filed with the Director of Finance and Public Record.

SECTION 118 . CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT OFFICERS.

   All persons holding office at the time this Charter goes into effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been otherwise made in accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of the duties of any such office. When such provision shall have been made the term of any such officer shall expire and the office be deemed abolished. The powers which are conferred and the duties which are impose upon any officer, commission, board or department of the City under the laws of the State shall, if such office or department is abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties hereunder.

SECTION 119 . CONTINUANCE OF REGULATIONS.

   All ordinances, resolutions and rules of departments in force at the time of the taking effect of this Charter, not inconsistent with its provisions, shall continue in force until amended or replaced.