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CHAPTER 1. - SEVERABILITY AND ACTS SUPERSEDED#
Sec. 10-100. - Severability.#
If this Charter cannot take effect in its entirety because of the judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction holding invalid any part or parts thereof, the remaining provisions of this Charter shall be given full force and effect as completely as if the part or parts held invalid had not been included herein. If it shall be finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any provisions of this Charter transferring to an office, department, board or commission the powers and duties heretofore exercised and performed by an officer, department, board or commission abolished by this Charter are invalid, the provisions abolishing such office, department, board or commission shall thereby become inoperative, and that in such event, such office, department, board or commission shall not be abolished but shall continue as prior to the adoption of this Charter. The remaining provisions of this Charter shall in any such case be given force and effect.
Sec. 10-101. - Previous charter superseded.#
This Charter shall supersede all previous charters and amendments thereto.
Sec. 10-102. - Statutes and ordinances superseded.#
This Charter shall supersede all statutes or parts of statutes, local, special or general, and all ordinances of the city, to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Charter; and all statutes and ordinances not inconsistent with this Charter shall continue in full force and effect until the council shall otherwise ordain.
CHAPTER 2. - EFFECTIVE DATES#
Sec. 10-200. - Schedule.#
This Charter shall become effective on the first Monday of January 2007, except in the following particulars: (1)
The mayor, members of the council and shall be elected under the provisions of this Charter, and for that purpose, all provisions of this Charter pertaining to elections and the manner of conducting elections shall become effective immediately upon the adoption of this Charter by the electors. The board of canvassers and registration, as then constituted, shall have all the powers and duties of the board of canvassers and registration as in this Charter provided for the purpose of conducting said election.
(2)
All appropriations made in the budget ordinance for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2006 shall be made to the then existing officers, departments, boards and commissions of the city or their successors under this Charter. Provisions shall also be made in the budget ordinance for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2006 for any offices, departments, boards or commissions created by this Charter to exercise new functions, and any such provision may be increased in 2007 notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter.
(3)
The provisions of subdivision (1) of section 5-100 shall be effective for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2006.
Sec. 10-201. - Transitional provision.#
If upon the effective date of any section or provision of this Charter there shall not be an official appointed upon whom any duty is placed by said section or provision, it shall be the duty of the mayor to designate the official or employee of the city who shall perform temporarily the said duty.
Secs. 10-300—10-305. - Reserved.#
Sec. 10-306. - Specific provisions.#
To the extent that any specific provision contained in this Charter conflicts with any provision expressed in general terms, the specific provisions shall prevail.
Sec. 10-307. - Canvassing authority.#
Whenever the board of canvassers or canvassing authority is used in this Charter, it shall be taken to mean the board of canvassers and registration.