For the purpose of nominating and electing officers and all purposes connected therewith, and for the purpose of exercising such preliminary legislative powers by the City Council as are herein provided, this Charter shall take effect on the first day of January, 1915. For the purpose of establishing departments, divisions, and offices, and distributing the functions thereof, and for all other purposes, it shall take effect on the first day of January, 1916. The Council during the year 1915 may pass any ordinance, to be operative on and after January 1, 1916, designed to carry out the provisions of this Charter. Such ordinance shall be in accordance with the statutes, respecting passage and publication.
All persons holding office at the time this Charter goes into effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been otherwise made in accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of the duties of any such office. When such provision shall have been made the term of any such officer shall expire and the office be deemed abolished. The powers and duties which are conferred and imposed upon any officer, commission, board or department of the City under the laws of the State shall, if such office or department is abolished by this Charter, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, board or department upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties under this Charter.
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