(a) Any person holding any office or the member of any board affected by any provision of this amended Charter shall continue in office and in the performance of his duties until provision shall have been made in accordance therewith for the performance of such duties or the discontinuance of the office or board or department.
(b) When such provision shall have been made, the term of the officer or board member shall expire, and the office or board abolished. The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any officer, board or department of the City under the provisions of this amended Charter and the general laws of the State of Ohio shall, if such office, board or department is abolished by this amended Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties under this amended Charter.
Every employee of the municipal government on the effective date of this revised Charter shall continue in such employment and thereafter be subject in all respects to the provisions of this Charter and ordinances, resolutions, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated thereunder, except that no employee who has been continuously employed by the City for a period of at least one year immediately prior to the effective date of this revised Charter shall be required to submit to an examination, but shall be hereby granted civil service status if such employee occupies a position in the classified service of the City under this revised Charter.
Whenever resort to general laws of the State is required by this Charter for the purpose of defining the powers and duties of officers, boards, departments or commissions of the City and those general laws effective at the time the Charter is adopted shall have been thereafter repealed, supplemented or amended, then and in that event such powers and duties shall be exercised and performed, as directed and authorized by the then existing laws. If any office, board, commission or department of cities, now existing under general laws, and to which reference is specifically made herein, shall hereafter be abolished by State law, then the reference thereto in this Charter shall apply to the office, board, commission or department that may be created by such general law to exercise and succeed to the functions, powers, and duties corresponding to those pertaining to the office, board, commission, or department so abolished.
The City of Bryan under this revised Charter is hereby declared to be the legal successor of the City of Bryan, under the prior Charter, and as such it has title to all property, real and personal, owned by its predecessor, including all moneys on deposit and all taxes in process of collection together with all accounts receivable and rights of action. The City is liable for all outstanding orders, contracts and debts of its predecessor, and for any other obligations for which it may be held liable, as such successor, by any court of competent jurisdiction. All contracts entered into by the City or for its benefit prior to the effective date of this revised Charter shall continue in full force and effect.
(a) The adoption of this revised Charter shall not affect any pre-existing rights of the City, nor any right or liability or pending suit or prosecution, either on behalf of or against the City or any officer thereof, nor any franchise granted by the City, nor pending proceedings for the authorization of public improvements or the levy of assessments therefor. Except as a contrary intent appears herein, all acts of the Council of the City, including ordinances and resolutions in effect at the date this revised Charter becomes effective, shall continue in effect until lawfully amended or repealed.
(b) No action or proceeding pending against the City or an officer thereof shall be abated or affected by the adoption of this revised Charter, but all such actions or proceedings shall be prosecuted or defended under the laws in effect at the time of the filing thereof.
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