Culver City Municipal Code Art. XX Succession and Transition

This Charter shall be effective on the later of July 1, 2006, or the date it is accepted and filed by the Secretary of State.

The City shall continue to own, possess and control all rights and property of every kind and nature owned, possessed or controlled by it at the time this Charter takes effect and shall continue to be subject to all its debts, obligations, liabilities and contracts.

All lawful ordinances, resolutions, policies, rules and regulations in force at the time this Charter takes effect, and that are not in conflict or inconsistent with this Charter, are hereby continued in force until they have been duly repealed, amended, changed or superseded by proper authority.

Except as specifically provided, nothing in this Charter shall affect or impair the civil service, pension and retirement rights or privileges of officers or employees of the City, or of any City department existing at the time this Charter takes effect.

The members of the City Council and of the Board of Education of the Culver City Unified School District in office at the time this Charter takes effect shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms and until their successors are elected and certified.

Commissions, boards and committees previously established by the City Council shall continue to exist and exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred upon them; provided, however, that the City Council may abolish any or all of said commissions, boards or committees and may alter their structure, membership and duties.

The members of the commissions and boards holding office when this Charter takes effect shall continue to hold office until their respective terms of office shall expire and until their successors shall be appointed, or until such time as the body is abolished by action of the City Council.

The members of Committees existing when this Charter takes effect shall continue to remain members until they are replaced or removed by the City Council or until the Committee is abolished.

The present employees of the City shall continue to perform their duties without interruption, subject to this Charter and all applicable provisions of any existing or future ordinance, resolution, rule or law relating to the removal, duties or control of such employees.

All contracts entered into by the City, or for its benefit, before the effective date of this Charter, shall continue in full force and effect according to their terms.

The procedures for awarding contracts for public works existing at the time this Charter takes effect, will continue to be followed until such time as the City Council establishes, by ordinance, different required procedures.

No civil or criminal action or proceeding that has been brought by or against the City, or any City department and that is pending as of the effective date of this Charter, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this Charter. All such actions or proceedings may be continued, even if the functions, powers or duties of any City department that is a party to such action or proceeding have been assigned or transferred under this Charter to another City department. In that event, such actions may be prosecuted or defended by the head of the City department to which such functions, powers and duties have been assigned or transferred under this Charter.

If, in the judgment of the City Attorney, any of the sections included in this Article become obsolete by virtue of the completion of all acts required under those sections, the City Attorney shall so advise the City Council. Upon the adoption by the City Council of a resolution to such effect, the obsolete sections shall be deemed to have expired, and the City Clerk shall then remove those sections from the next printing of this Charter.