SECTION 12.02.    Continuance of Present Officials - Abolition of Offices.
   Except as otherwise provided by this Charter, all persons holding office at the time this Charter takes effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until other provisions have been made in accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of the duties of the office. When that provision shall have been made, the term of any officer shall expire and the office shall be abolished. The powers conferred and the duties imposed upon any officer, body, commission, board, department or division of the Municipality under the laws of Ohio or under any municipal ordinance, resolution or contract in force at the time this Charter takes effect shall, if the office, body, commission, board, department or division is abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by those upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties by this Charter or by any ordinance or resolution of Council thereafter enacted.