SECTION 17.02   CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.
   Unless otherwise provided in this Charter, all persons who are appointees, employees or non-elected officials of the City at the time this Charter takes effect, shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provisions shall have been made otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Charter. When such provisions shall have been made, the term of any such appointee, employee or non-elected official, affected thereby, shall expire.
   The powers which are conferred, and the duties which are imposed upon any appointee, employee or non-elected official, commission, board, department or division of the City under the laws of the State, shall, if such office, department or division be abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board, department or division upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties hereunder.