5.07 Establishment and Discontinuance of Departments.

   There shall be a Department of Law, a Department of Finance, a Department of Civil Service, and other departments and offices as established by ordinance or resolution. The Council may discontinue any department or office established by ordinance or resolution and may prescribe, combine, distribute or abolish the functions and duties of departments and offices; but no function or duty assigned by this Charter to a particular department or office shall be abolished or assigned to any other department or office. No department or office shall be established or discontinued until the recommendation of the City Manager shall have been heard by the Council. Departments and offices existing at the time of the adoption of this Revised Charter, and not specifically mentioned therein, shall continue until altered or discontinued by ordinance or resolution.