Subject to pertinent enabling legislation authorizing a Home
Rule Charter, this Charter shall supersede all statutes or parts of
statutes local, special or general and all ordinances of the City
of Clairton affecting the organization, government and powers of the
municipality to the extent that they are inconsistent or in conflict
with this Charter.
All statutes, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations
or portions thereof in force when this Charter takes effect and not
in conflict herewith are hereby continued in force and effect until
amended, repealed, superseded or expired by their own terms.
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time
this Charter shall take effect, brought by or against the municipality
or any office, department, agency or officer thereof shall be affected
or abated by the adoption of this Charter or by anything herein contained.
All contracts entered into by the municipality or for its benefit
prior to the taking effect of this Charter shall continue in full
force and effect. Public improvements for which legislative steps
have been taken under laws existing at the time this Charter takes
effect may be carried to completion as nearly as practicable in accordance
with the provisions of such existing laws. All taxes and assessments
levied or assessed, all fines and penalties imposed and all other
obligations owing to the municipality which are uncollected at the
time this Charter becomes effective shall continue in full force and
effect and shall be collected as if no change had been made.
The municipality's membership and participation in any
municipal authority at the time this Charter is adopted shall continue
and the persons representing the municipality on the board of any
such authority shall continue in office until the normal expiration
of their terms or until their successors are appointed.
If a municipal department, office, agency, board, commission
or other entity is abolished by this Charter, the powers and duties
given it by law shall be transferred to the municipal department office,
agency, board, commission or other entity designated in this Charter
or, if the Charter makes no provision, designated by Council.
Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, all boards and
commissions in existence at the time of the adoption of this Charter
shall continue and the persons representing the municipality on any
such board or commission shall continue in office until the normal
expiration of their terms or until their successors are appointed.
Thereafter, persons appointed shall serve terms as designated by ordinance
adopted pursuant to this Charter.
The Civil Service Commission of the City of Clairton, existing
as of the effective date of the Charter, shall continue in office
for the purpose of disposing of appeals.
No new appeals shall be entered with said Commission after the
first organizational meeting of the Personnel Board.
Upon rendering its decision in its final case, the Civil Service
Commission shall be dissolved.