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All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the City of Imlay City which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, in force and effect at the same time of the adoption of this charter, shall continue in full force as ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the city until repealed or amended by action of the proper authorities.
Should any provision or section, or portion thereof, of this charter be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unconstitutional, such holding shall not be construed as affecting the validity of this charter as a whole or of any remaining portion of such provision or section; it being hereby declared to be the intent of the Charter Commission and of the electors who voted thereon that such unconstitutionality or illegality shall not affect the validity of any part of this charter except that specifically affected by such holding. Further, it is hereby declared that it was the intent of the Charter Commission and of the electors of the City of Imlay City, in preparing and adopting this charter, that said instrument should conform in all respects with the provisions and requirements of State Law. In the event that any provision of this charter shall conflict with or contravene the provisions of any general law of the State of Michigan, the provisions of such general law of the state shall govern.
This charter may be amended at any time in the manner provided in Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, being M.C.L.A. § 117.1 et seq. Should two (2) or more amendments, adopted at the same election, have conflicting provisions, the one receiving the largest affirmative vote shall prevail as to those provisions.
Except as otherwise specifically provided or indicated by the context:
(a) All words used in this charter indicating the present tense shall not be limited to the time of the adoption of this charter but shall extend to and include the time of the happening of any event or requirement for which provision is made herein.
(b) The singular number shall include the plural, the plural number shall include the singular and the masculine gender shall extend to and include the feminine gender and the neuter.
(c) The word “person” may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate and to partnerships as well as to individuals.
(d) The words “printed” and “printing” shall include reproductions by printing, engraving, stencil duplication, lithographing or any similar method.
(e) Except in reference to signatures, the words “written” and “in writing” shall include printing and typewriting.
(f) The word “officer” shall include the Mayor and other members of the Commission, the administrative officers, and members of city boards and commissions created by or pursuant to this charter.
(g) The word “statute” shall denote the Public Acts of the State of Michigan as in effect at the time the provision of the charter containing the word “statute” is to be applied.
(h) The word “Constitution” shall denote the Constitution of the State of Michigan as in effect at the time the provision of the charter containing the word “Constitution” is to be applied.
(i) All references to specific local or Public Acts shall be to such local or Public Acts of the State of Michigan as in effect at the time the reference to such act is to be applied.
(j) All references to section numbers shall refer to section numbers of this charter.
All trusts established for any municipal purpose shall be used and continued in accordance with the terms of such trust subject to the cy pres doctrine. The Commission may in its discretion receive and hold any property in trust for any municipal purpose and shall apply the same to the execution of such trust and for no other purposes except in cases where the cy pres doctrine shall apply.
Any officer of the city found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction of any act declared by this charter to constitute misconduct in office may be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not to exceed ninety days or both in the discretion of the court. The punishment provided in this section shall be in addition to that of having the office declared vacant as provided in Section 5.4.