ARTICLE 4. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, FISCAL AFFAIRS

City Clerk: Office Created, Duties

Section 4-1. There shall be a city clerk, who shall be an officer of the city appointed by the city manager for an indefinite term, and who shall be head of the department of finance. Except as the council by ordinance provides otherwise, the city clerk shall collect or receive revenue and other money for the city, shall deposit the same with the city treasurer or for the city treasurer in an account or accounts maintained by the city treasurer in a depository or depositories, and shall maintain a general accounting system for the city government. He shall have such other powers, duties, and functions as may be prescribed by the charter, by applicable law, or by ordinance. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

City Treasurer: Office Created, Duties

Section 4-2. Within the department of finance, there shall be a city treasurer, who shall be an officer of the city appointed by the city manager for an indefinite term. Subject to such regulations as the council may prescribe, the city treasurer shall deposit funds received for the city in such depositories as the council may designate. He shall have such other powers, duties, and functions as may be prescribed by the charter, by applicable law, or by ordinance. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

Purchases And Sales

Section 4-3. The city manager, subject to any regulations which the council may prescribe, shall contract for and purchase, or issue purchase authorizations for, all supplies, materials, and equipment for the offices, departments, and agencies of the city government. Every such contract or purchase exceeding an amount to be established by ordinance, shall require the prior approval of the council. The city manager also may transfer to or between offices, departments, and agencies, or sell, surplus or obsolete supplies, materials, and equipment, subject to such regulations as the council may prescribe.

Before the purchase of, or contract for, any supplies, materials, or equipment, or the sale of any surplus or obsolete supplies, materials, or equipment, ample opportunity for competitive bidding, under such regulations, and with such exceptions, as the council may prescribe, shall be given; but the council shall not except an individual contract, purchase, or sale from the requirement of competitive bidding.

The council by ordinance may transfer some or all of the power granted to the city manager by this section to an administrative officer subordinate to the city manager. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

Sale Of Property Valued At More Than $25,000

Section 4-4. The sale of any property, real or personal, including public utilities, or of any interest therein, the value of which is more than $25,000, shall be made only: 1) by authority of an affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the city who vote on the question of approving or authorizing the sale at an election; or 2) by authority of a special nonemergency ordinance. Such ordinance shall be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the city within ten days after its passage, and shall include a section reading substantially as follows:

"Section           . This ordinance shall be referred to a vote of the electors of the city; legal and sufficient referendum petition is properly filed within thirty days after its passage; otherwise it shall go into effect thirty days after its passage."

The amount provided for in this section shall be adjusted every five years based upon the February consumer price index for municipalities of the same size in the Southwest Region. The council shall adopt, by resolution, the appropriate consumer price index at the first meeting in May of the appropriate year and all appropriate adjustments shall be made in this document. (Res. 841, 2-3-2015, election 4-7-2015)

Public Improvements

Section 4-5. The council shall award all contracts for such improvements; provided that the council may authorize the city manager to award such contracts not exceeding an amount to be determined by the council and subject to such regulations as the council may prescribe. A contract for public improvements shall follow the public competitive bidding act of 1974, currently codified at 61 O.S. §101 et seq., and all future amendments and modifications thereto. (Res. 840, 2-3-2015, election 4-7-2015)

Fiscal Year

Section 4-6. The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of July and shall end on the last day of June of every calendar year. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

Independent Annual Audit

Section 4-7. The council shall designate a qualified public accountant or accountants who shall make an independent audit of the accounts and evidences of financial transactions of the department of finance and of all other departments, offices, and agencies keeping separate or subordinate accounts or making financial transactions, as of the end of every fiscal year at least, and who shall report to the council and to the city manager. In lieu of the above, the council may arrange with an appropriate state authority for such an audit when and if permitted by law. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

ARTICLE 5. MUNICIPAL COURT

Municipal Court

Section 5-1. There shall be a municipal judge, who shall be an officer of the city appointed by the city manager for an indefinite term. The municipal judge shall be, but an acting municipal judge need not be, a licensed attorney of the state. Only the council may suspend or remove the municipal judge or an acting municipal judge, and by a vote of a majority of all its members. The municipal judge shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases involving offenses against the charter and ordinances of the city; provided that the council by ordinance may create a minor violations bureau with authority to dispose of cases arising out of designated minor violations, such as minor traffic and parking violations, when the accused waives his right to be heard in court, pleads guilty, and pays fines and costs. The municipal judge shall keep a record of all proceedings of the municipal court, of the disposition of all cases, and of all fines and other money collected. The municipal judge may issue warrants of arrest and subpoenas, administer oaths and affirmations, make and enforce all proper orders, rules, and judgments, and punish for contempt. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

ARTICLE 6. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS

Overlapping Terms Of Two Years; Mayor Nominated And Elected At Large; Other Councilmen Nominated And Elected By Wards; Nonpartisan Elections

Section 6-1. At the elections in every even-numbered year, the mayor, the councilman from ward two, and the councilman from ward four shall be elected. At the elections in every odd-numbered year, the councilman from ward one and the councilman from ward three shall be elected. The mayor and other councilmen shall serve for terms of two years beginning at 5:30 o'clock P.M. at the first regular meeting following their election. If the mayor-elect or a councilman-elect fails to qualify within one month thereafter, his office shall become vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as other vacancies in the council are filled.

The candidates for mayor shall be nominated, and the mayor shall be elected, at large, by the qualified electors of the entire city. Candidates for councilmen from the wards must be qualified electors of their respective wards. Candidates for councilmen from the wards shall be nominated, and councilmen from the wards shall be elected, by the qualified electors of their respective wards.

Both the primary and the general election shall be nonpartisan; and no party designation or emblem shall be placed on the ballots. (Res. 839, 2-3-2015, election 4-7-2015)

Primary Election: Filing

Section 6-2. Any qualified candidate shall have his or her name placed on the ballot for the primary election as a candidate for mayor or councilman by filing a sworn declaration of candidacy with the county election board during the filing period set by resolution of the council. The filing period shall conform as nearly as practical to state law and shall not begin less than fifteen (15) days from the date the resolution is submitted to the county election board and end no less than seventy-five (75) days from the date of the primary election. (Res. 839, 2-3-2015, election 4-7-2015)

Primary Election: Time, Etc.

Section 6-3. A primary election shall be held every year on the Tuesday in August set by state law for special election and of every year thereafter to nominate candidates for the offices on the council the terms of which are expiring. If only one person is a candidate for an office to be filled, he shall be not only nominated, but also elected ipso facto; and his name shall not appear on the primary or general election ballot. Should there be only two candidates for an office to be filed, their names will be placed on the November general election ballot and the names will not appear on the August primary ballot. (Res. 731, 1-18-2005, election 3-15-2005, eff. 3-18-2005)

Primary Election: Who Nominated Or Elected

Section 6-4. In a primary election, the two candidates for each office to be filled receiving the greatest number of votes for that office, shall be nominated; and only their names shall appear on the general election ballot. If one of the candidates for an office receives a majority of all votes cast for all candidates for that office, he alone shall be not only nominated, but also elected ipso facto; and his name shall not appear on the ballot for the general election. In case of failure to nominate one or both candidates for an office because of a tie, the nominee or nominees shall be determined from among those tying, fairly by lot, by the county election board in a public meeting. If one of the two candidates for an office nominated in a primary election dies or withdraws before the general election, the remaining candidate shall be elected ipso facto; and his name need not appear on the ballot for the general election. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

General Election: Time, Who Elected

Section 6-5. A general election shall be held in the city on the Tuesday in November set by state law for special election to elect the councilmen to succeed those whose terms are expiring. The candidate for each office receiving the greater number of votes shall be elected. In case of a tie, the election shall be determined, fairly by lot, by the county election board in a public meeting. (Res. 731, 1-18-2005, election 3-15-2005, eff. 3-18-2005)

Primary And General Elections: When Not Held

Section 6-6. If there are no candidates and no questions to be voted upon at a primary or general election, the election shall not be held.

Registered Qualified Electors

Section 6-7. Only electors residing in this city who have the qualifications prescribed for electors by the state constitution and law, and who are registered as may be required by law, may vote in city elections.

Political Activity Of Officers And Employees

Section 6-8. No officer or employee of the city except the mayor and other councilmen and personnel who receive no compensation for their services, may work for or against, or attempt to influence, the nomination, election, or defeat of any candidate for councilman, or the recall of any councilman; provided that this shall not prohibit the ordinary exercise of one's right to express his opinions and to vote. Any person who violates this section, shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars including costs. Such violation shall constitute cause for removal from office or employment; and if the regular removal authority has not already removed a person who violates this section, he shall be automatically removed by the said conviction of violating this section effective at the expiration of his right of appeal or, in case of appeal, when the case is finally determined.

State Constitution And Law To Govern

Section 6-9. The provisions of the state constitution and law applicable to city elections, shall govern such elections in this city insofar as they are applicable and are not superseded by this charter or by ordinance.

A proclamation of the mayor calling a special election need not (but may) set forth the names of the precinct officers who are to conduct the election, but shall give the locations of polling places.

ARTICLE 7. RECALL

Recall Authorized

Section 7-1. The incumbent of any elective city office, including a person appointed to fill a vacancy in any such office, may be recalled from office by the electors qualified to vote for the election of a successor to the incumbent, in the manner provided herein.

Recall Petition

Section 7-2. (1) To initiate recall proceedings, a written statement in duplicate proposing the recall of the incumbent of an elective office, shall be signed by twenty or more registered qualified electors of the city or ward concerned, and shall be filed with the city clerk after the incumbent has held the office at least four months. The statement shall also contain the reason or reasons for which the recall is sought, in not more than two hundred words. Within five days, the city clerk shall mail a copy of such statement by registered, certified, or similar special mail to the officer at his residential address. Within ten days after the statement is mailed to the officer, the officer may make and file with the city clerk a written statement in duplicate justifying his conduct in office, in not more than two hundred words; and the city clerk on request shall deliver one copy to one of the persons filing the statement proposing the recall.

(2) The petition for recall shall include a demand that a successor to the incumbent sought to be recalled be elected, and shall also include before the space where the signatures are to be written the statement giving the reason or reasons for recall under the heading "STATEMENT FOR RECALL", and if the officer has filed a statement as authorized, the statement justifying his conduct in office under the heading "STATEMENT AGAINST RECALL". The two statements shall be in letters of the same size. A copy of the petition shall be filed with the city clerk within one month after recall proceedings are initiated by the filing of the first statement, and before the petition is circulated.

(3) A number of registered qualified electors of the city or ward concerned equal at least to fifteen percent (15%) of the total number of votes cast for governor in the city or ward at the last general state election at which a governor was elected, must sign the petition. Each signer shall write after his name his address within the city, giving street or avenue and number, if any. Not more than one hundred signatures may appear on a single copy of the petition. Petitions may be circulated only by registered qualified electors of the city or ward concerned; and the person who circulates each copy of the petition shall sign an affidavit on the copy stating that each signer signed the petition in his presence, that each signature on the petition is genuine, and that he believes each signer to be a registered qualified elector of the city or ward concerned.

(4) The circulated petition shall be filed with the city clerk not later than one month after the filing of a copy as provided above. Within one month after date of filing of the circulated petition, the city clerk shall examine it and ascertain whether it has been prepared and circulated as required, and whether the required number of registered qualified electors of the city or ward concerned have signed it. He shall then attach his certificate to the petition. If his certificate states that the petition has not been prepared and circulated as required and/or lacks a sufficient number of signatures, the petition shall have no effect unless the decision of the city clerk is appealed from and reversed by the district court. But, if the city clerk's certificate states that the petition has been prepared and circulated as required and has a sufficient number of signatures, he shall submit the petition and certificate to the council at its next meeting. Provided that any qualified elector who has signed said petition or the officer affected may appeal from the decision of the city clerk within five days from the date of such decision to the district court of Custer County.

Recall Election: Council To Order

Section 7-3. The council, by resolution or ordinance passed within ten days after receiving the petition and certificate of the city clerk or after decision of the court, shall order and fix the date for a recall election, which shall be held not less than forty days, nor more than fifty days, after passage of the resolution or ordinance. The city clerk shall cause the resolution or ordinance ordering the election to be published in full in a newspaper of general circulation within the city within ten days after its passage; and such publication shall be sufficient notice of the election.

The qualified electors of the city may vote in a recall election on the election of successors to more than one incumbent of an elective office on the same day.

Recall Election: How Held

Section 7-4. The recall election shall be an election to fill the office held by the incumbent sought to be recalled. There shall be no primary. Any qualified person, including the incumbent, may file as a candidate for the office. The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes in the recall election shall be elected. If a candidate other than the incumbent is elected, the incumbent shall be recalled from office effective as of the time when the result of the election is certified. The said successful candidate must qualify within one month thereafter; and if he fails to do so, the office shall be vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as other vacancies in the council are filled. A candidate thus elected and qualifying shall serve for the unexpired term. If the incumbent is a candidate and receives the greatest number of votes, he shall continue in office without interruption; and recall proceedings may not again be initiated against him within one year after the election.

The provisions of this charter relating to city elections shall also govern recall elections insofar as they are applicable and are not superseded by the provisions of this article.

Person Recalled Or Resigning

Section 7-5. No person who has been recalled from an office, or who has resigned from office while recall proceedings were pending against him, may hold any office or position of employment in the city government within two years after his recall or resignation.

ARTICLE 8. OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES GENERALLY

Appointments, Removals, Etc.; Personnel Regulations

Section 8-1. Appointments and promotions in the service of the city shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness; and removals, demotions, suspensions, and layoffs shall be made solely for the good of the service. The council, consistently with this charter, by ordinance or personnel rules, may regulate personnel matters and provide for proper personnel administration.

Personnel Board Created

Section 8-2. There shall be a personnel board consisting of three members appointed by the council for overlapping six year terms. The term of one member shall begin July 1 in every even-numbered year. The council shall appoint the three original members so that the term of one will expire at that time in each of the first three succeeding even-numbered years. A member may not hold any other office or position in the city government. The council, by a vote of at least four members, after adequate opportunity for a public hearing, may remove a member for the good of the service; and the vote shall be by yeas and nays and shall be entered in the journal. The council shall fill vacancies for the unexpired terms. Members shall serve without compensation unless the council provides otherwise.

At the time prescribed for the beginning of the term of a newly appointed member or as soon thereafter as practicable, the board shall elect a chairman, a vice chairman, and a secretary; and the secretary need not be a member of the board. The board shall determine the time and place of its regular meetings, and the chairman or two members may call special meetings. The chairman shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations.

The personnel board shall have power to subpoena officers and employees of the city and other persons to testify and to produce documents and other effects as evidence.

Classified And Unclassified Services

Section 8-3. All officers and employees of the city shall be divided into the classified and the unclassified service.

(1) The following shall constitute the unclassified service:

(a) The mayor and other councilmen, and the municipal judge;

(b) The city manager, and one secretary to the city manager;

(c) Members and secretary of each board, commission, or other plural authority;

(d) All personnel who serve without compensation;

(e) Persons appointed or employed on a temporary basis to make or conduct a special audit, inquiry, investigation, study, examination, or installation, or to perform a temporary professional or technical service, subject to such exceptions, limitations, and regulations as the ordinances or personnel rules may prescribe; and such other temporary personnel as may be placed in the unclassified service by ordinance or personnel rules.

(2) All other officers and employees shall be in the classified service; provided that, when the city has over 50,000 people as shown by any last preceding federal census, any of the following may be placed in the unclassified service by ordinance or personnel rules: one assistant city manager if any; the heads, or directors, of administrative departments; and one secretary for each such head, or director, who has a secretary.

(3) Nothing herein shall prohibit including personnel in the unclassified service in the classification plan.

Removal, Etc.; Hearing Before The Personnel Board

Section 8-4. The city manager or any other authority who lays off, suspends without pay for more than ten days, demotes, or removes any regular (that is, nontemporary) officer or employee in the classified service after a probationary period of six months, shall, at that time or within two days thereafter, deliver, or have delivered, or mail by registered, certified, or similar special mail, to the officer or employee a written statement of the reason or reasons for the layoff, suspension, demotion, or removal. Such officer or employee may appeal in writing to the personnel board. The appeal must be filed with the secretary of the board, or with the city clerk for transmittal to the board, within ten (10) days after receipt of notice of the layoff, suspension, demotion, or removal (which appeal may thus be filed either before or after the time of effectiveness of the layoff, suspension, demotion, or removal). As soon as practicable thereafter, the board shall hold a public hearing on the appeal, or give an adequate opportunity therefor, and shall report in writing its findings and recommendations, in cases of subordinates of the city manager, to the city manager, and in other cases to the respective authorities having power of removal; and the city manager or other authority having power of removal shall then make a final decision in writing regarding the appellant's layoff, suspension, demotion, or removal, as the case may be.

Qualifications Of Officers And Employees

Section 8-5. Officers and employees of the city shall have the qualifications prescribed by this charter and such additional qualifications as the council may prescribe; but the council shall not prescribe additional qualifications for councilmen.

Nepotism

Section 8-6. Neither the city manager, the council, nor any other authority of the city government, may appoint or elect any person related to any councilman, to the city manager, or to himself, or, in the case of a plural authority, to one of its members, by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any office or position of profit in the city government; but this shall not prohibit an officer or employee from continuing in the service of the city.

Holding More Than One Office

Section 8-7. Except as may be otherwise provided by this charter or by ordinance, the same person may hold more than one office in the city government. The city manager may hold more than one such office, through appointment by himself, by the council, or by other city authority having power to fill the particular office, subject to any regulations which the council may make by ordinance; but he may not receive compensation for service in such other offices. Also the council by ordinance may provide that the city manager shall hold ex officio designated offices subordinate to the city manager as well as other designated compatible city offices.

Official Bonds

Section 8-8. The city manager, the city clerk, the city treasurer, and such other officers and employees as the council may designate, before entering upon their duties, shall provide bonds for the faithful performance of their respective duties, payable to the city, in such form and in such amounts as the council may prescribe, with a surety company authorized to operate within the state. The city shall pay the premiums on such bonds.

Oath Or Affirmation Of Office

Section 8-9. Every officer of the city, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the oath or affirmation of office prescribed by the state constitution. The oath or affirmation shall be filed in the city clerk's office.

Who May Administer Oaths And Affirmations

Section 8-10. All officers authorized by federal or state law, the mayor, the city manager, the city clerk, the municipal judge, and such other officers as the council may authorize, may administer oaths and affirmations in any matter pertaining to the affairs and government of the city.

Removal, Etc., Of Officers And Employees

Section 8-11. Except in the case of the municipal judge, the power to lay off, suspend, demote, and remove accompanies the power to appoint or elect, and the city manager, the council, or other appointing or electing authority at any time may lay off, suspend, demote, or remove any officer or employee to whom he, the council, or the other appointing or electing authority respectively may appoint or elect a successor.

Acting Officers And Employees

Section 8-12. The appointing or electing authority who may appoint or elect the successor of an officer or employee, may appoint or elect a person to act during the temporary absence, leave, disability, or suspension of such officer or employee, or, in case of a vacancy, until a successor is appointed or elected and qualifies, unless the council provides by general ordinance that a particular superior or subordinate of such officer or employee shall act. The council by general ordinance may provide for a deputy to act in such cases. Also an acting municipal judge may be appointed to serve in any case or proceeding for which the municipal judge is disqualified.

Officers To Continue Until Successors Are Elected Or Appointed And Qualify

Section 8-13. Every officer who is elected or appointed for a term ending at a definite time, shall continue to serve thereafter until his successor is elected or appointed and qualifies unless his services are sooner terminated by resignation, removal, disqualification, death, abolition of the office, or other legal manner.

Conflict Of Interest

Section 8-14. Neither any councilman nor the city manager shall sell or barter anything to the city or to a contractor to be supplied to the city; or make any contract with the city; or purchase anything from the city other than those things which the city offers generally to the public (as for example, utility services), and then only on the same terms as are offered to the public. Any such officer violating this section, upon conviction thereof, shall thereby forfeit his office. Any violation of this section, with the knowledge, express or implied, of the person or corporation contracting with the city, shall render the contract voidable by the city manager or the council. This section shall not apply in cases in which the city acquires property by condemnation.

The council by ordinance or personnel rules may further regulate conflicts of interest and ethics of officers and employees of the city.

ARTICLE 9. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Gender

Section 9-1. When the masculine gender is used in this charter, it shall also mean the feminine unless the masculine alone is clearly indicated.

Initiative And Referendum

Section 9-2. The powers of the initiative and referendum are reserved to the people of the city. In the exercise of these powers, the requirements of the state constitution and law shall be observed.

Publicity Of Records

Section 9-3. All records and accounts of every office, department, or agency of the city government, except records and documents the disclosure of which would tend to defeat the lawful purpose which they are intended to accomplish, shall be open to public inspection.

ARTICLE 10. AMENDMENT AND SEPARABILITY OF CHARTER

Amendment: Proposal, Ratification, Approval

Section 10-1. This charter may be amended by proposals therefor submitted by the council, or by the mayor upon initiative petition of the electors as provided by the state constitution, at a general or special election, ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon, and approved by the governor as provided by the state constitution. If more than one amendment is proposed, all of them except those which are so interrelated that they should be ratified or rejected together, shall be submitted in such manner that the electors may vote on them separately. A proposition to amend this charter may be either in the form of a proposed amendment to a part or parts of the charter or of a proposed new charter.

Separability

Section 10-2. If a court of competent jurisdiction should hold any section or part of this charter invalid, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this charter nor the context in which such section or part so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with that section or part.

If a court of competent jurisdiction holds a part of this charter invalid, or if a change in the state constitution or law renders a part of this charter invalid or inapplicable, the council by ordinance may take such appropriate action as will enable the city government to function properly.

ARTICLE 11. SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT

When Charter Goes Into Effect

Section 11-1. 1962 Charter: If a majority of the qualified electors of the city voting on the question vote to ratify this charter, the provisions of this charter relating to elections shall go into effect immediately upon approval by the governor as provided by the state constitution, for the purpose of electing the mayor, the councilman from ward two, and the councilman from ward four; and the charter shall go into full effect at 7:30 o'clock P.M. on the second Tuesday in April, 1962. The council shall hold its first meeting at that time. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

2005 Amendment To Charter: If a majority of the qualified electors of the city voting on the question vote to ratify the charter amendment of 2005, the provisions of said charter amendment shall go into effect immediately upon approval by the governor as provided by the state constitution, for the purpose of electing the mayor, the councilman from ward two, and the councilman from ward four; and the charter amendment shall go into full effect at 5:30 o'clock P.M. on the first Tuesday in January 2006. The council shall hold its first meeting at that time. (Res. 731, 1-18-2005, election 3-15-2005, eff. 3-18-2005)

Officers And Employees To Continue

Section 11-2. 1962 Charter: The city commissioners from wards one and three holding office at the time this charter goes into full effect, shall become councilmen from wards one and three hereunder, and shall serve until 7:30 o'clock P.M. on the second Tuesday in April 1963, when their terms shall expire. (Charter, eff. 4-9-1962)

2005 Amendment To Charter: The councilmen from ward one and ward three holding office at the time the charter amendment of 2005 goes into full effect shall become councilmen from ward one and ward three hereunder, and shall serve until 5:30 o'clock P.M. on the first Tuesday in January 2007, when their terms shall expire.

All other officers and employees of the city under the old charter, both elective and appointive, shall continue in the offices and employments which they respectively hold, after this charter goes into effect, and until their services are terminated in accordance with the provisions of this charter relating to the creation, change, and abolition of offices and removal of officers and employees. The members of the library board and of other plural authorities at the time this charter goes into effect shall continue to serve until the expiration of their respective terms, subject to said provisions of this charter. It is the desire of the people of the city that every such officer or employee shall be continued in the service of the city if he is qualified and if the good of the city permits; but this general statement of desire shall not limit the power of appointment and removal. (Res. 731, 1-18-2005, election 3-15-2005, eff. 3-18-2005)

Ordinances Continued

Section 11-3. All ordinances, insofar as they are not inconsistent with this charter, shall continue in effect until they are repealed or until they expire by their own limitations.

Pending Actions And Proceedings

Section 11-4. The adoption of this charter shall not abate or otherwise affect any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending when it takes effect, brought by or against the municipality or any office, department, agency, or officer thereof.