The functions provided for any office, board or commission under
the General Statutes or Special Acts concerning the Town or any ordinance
or regulations in force at the time this Charter shall take effect
shall be thereafter exercised by the office, board or commission upon
which are imposed corresponding functions under the provisions of
this Charter. Any office, board or commission existing on the effective
date of this Charter and not provided for under this Charter shall
be abolished. Any office board or commission abolished by this Charter
(where no provision has been made herein for the discontinuance of
its function) shall continue in the performance of its function until
provision shall have been made for the performance of its functions
by some other office, board or commission created under this Charter
and until the First Selectman shall have notified the members of such
abolished office, board or commission that their successors have qualified.
All employees of the Town on the effective date of this Charter
whose positions are not abolished by the provisions of this Charter,
shall retain such positions pending action by the Board of Selectmen
or the appropriate officer charged by this Charter with powers of
appointment and removal. Any person holding an elected position which,
by this Charter, is made an appointed position shall be entitled to
serve the balance of the term for which he was elected. Similarly,
any elected positions created by this Charter shall be filled at the
next general or municipal election; a special election need not be
called to fill any such positions. Any provision of law in force at
the time this Charter shall take effect, and not inconsistent with
the provisions of this Charter, in relation to personnel, shall continue
in effect, until or unless amended or repealed in accordance with
the provisions of this Charter.
All records, property and equipment whatsoever of any office,
board or commission or part thereof, and all the powers and duties
of which are assigned to any other office, board or commission by
this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered intact to the office,
board or commission to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
If part of the powers and duties of any office, board or commission
or part thereof are by this Charter assigned to another office, board
or commission, all records, property and equipment relating exclusively
thereto shall be transferred and delivered intact to the office, board
or commission to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
All appropriations approved and in force and all funds, including
special or reserve funds in the name of the Town, at the time of the
adoption of this Charter shall remain in full force and effect unless
and until the same are amended, transferred or abolished under the
provisions of this Charter.
No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending on the effective
date of this Charter brought by or against the Town or any office,
board or commission thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption
of this Charter or by anything contained herein. In the event that
the functions, powers and duties of any office, board or commission
that is a party to such an action or proceeding are, by or under this
Charter, assigned or transferred to another office, board or commission,
the action or proceeding may be prosecuted or defended by the head
of the office, board or commission to which the functions, powers
and duties are assigned or transferred by or under this Charter.
This Charter may be amended in the manner prescribed by law.
If any section or part of any section of this Charter shall
be held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding
shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in
which said section or part thereof so held invalid may appear, except
to the extent that an entire section or part of a section may be inseparably
connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of a section
to which the holding shall directly apply.
A.
Whenever a new office or position is created under this Charter or
any amendments hereto, such office or position shall be deemed to
be vacant on the effective date of this Charter or amendment and shall
be filled by the officer, board or commission having the power to
fill vacancies in said office in accordance with the terms hereof.
B.
Where the term for an existing office, board or commission is stated
herein as commencing at a date subsequent to the effective date of
the amendment describing said term of office, the incumbent officers,
board members and commissioners, whether appointed or elected, and
whether the office, board or commission was created pursuant to the
General Statutes, by previous Charter provision or ordinance, shall
serve until removed hereunder or until their successors have been
elected or appointed and have qualified. Vacancies in any such existing
office, board or commission shall be filled in accordance with the
provisions of this Charter.
All Town officers and employees and all Town boards and commissions,
whether established by this Charter or created by ordinance or as
a special and temporary committee of the Board of Selectmen, and their
members shall conduct their meetings and perform their duties in accordance
with the provisions of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See C.G.S. § 1-200 et seq.
These Charter amendments shall take effect thirty (30) days
after the date of approval, as provided by Section 7-191(f) of the
General Statutes.
