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No streets or alleys, except those laid down on such plat and bearing the approval of the Platting Commissioner, as hereinbefore provided, shall subsequently in any way be accepted as public streets, or alleys, nor shall any public funds be expended in the repair or improvement of streets and alleys subsequently laid out and not on such plat. This restriction shall not apply to a street or alley laid out by the City, nor to streets, alleys or public grounds laid out on a plat by or with the approval of the Platting Commissioner.
No street or alley dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in the City shall be deemed a public street or alley or under the care or control of the Council unless the dedication be accepted and confirmed by ordinance passed for such purpose, or unless the provisions hereof relating to subdivisions shall have been complied with.
For the purpose of establishing qualifications of and nominating and electing officers and all purposes connected therewith, applicable sections of this Charter amendment shall take effect from and after the date of the approval by the electors. All other sections shall take effect from and after the first business day of January, 1994, unless a particular Charter section requires action to be taken prior to that date. All sections of this Charter not amended or repealed here by and not inconsistent therewith shall remain and continue in full force and effect. Unless the context clearly indicates a contrary intent, and except with respect to the appointment or removal of the City Auditor, the Clerk of Council or other Council employees, effective on the first business day of January, 1994, and thereafter, whenever this Charter provides that a matter shall be authorized by the Council, or approved by the Council, or that Council shall take certain action, such authorization, approval or action shall mean authorizing, approving or acting pursuant to a duly enacted ordinance or resolution in conformity with sections 43A and 43B hereof.
(Amended by electors 11-3-92)
All officers and employees holding office at the time of the 1992 Charter amendment shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been otherwise made in accordance with this Charter amendment 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 or employee shall expire and the office be deemed abolished. The powers and duties which are conferred and imposed upon any officer, employee, commission, board or department of the City under the laws of the State or the City shall, if modified or abolished by this Charter amendment, be thereafter exercised and discharged by the officer, employee, board or department upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties under this Charter as amended. Following the approval of the 1992 Charter amendment by the electors, the Council may pass any ordinance or resolution, to be operative on and after the first business day of January, 1994, designed to carry out the provisions of this Charter amendment.
(Added by electors 11-3-92)
All contracts entered into by the City prior to the 1992 Charter amendment shall continue in full force and effect. All public work begun prior to this Charter amendment shall be continued and perfected hereunder. Public improvements for which legislative steps have been taken under laws in force prior to the time this Charter amendment takes effect shall be carried to completion in accordance with the provisions of such legislation.
(Added by electors 11-3-92)
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