Fresno Municipal Code Art. I Incorporation and Succession

The City of Fresno, hereinafter termed the City, shall continue to be a municipal corporation under its present name of "City of Fresno." The boundaries of the City shall be the boundaries as established at the time this Charter takes effect, or as such boundaries may be changed thereafter in the manner authorized by law.

The City of Fresno 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 be subject to all its debts, obligations, liabilities and contracts.

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effect, and not in conflict or inconsistent herewith, are hereby continued in force until the same shall have been duly repealed, amended, changed or superseded by proper authority.

The appointive officers of the City, except members of boards and commissions, and the employees of the City under the preceding Charter shall continue to perform the duties of their respective offices and employments without interruption and for the same compensations and under the same conditions until the appointment of their successors or until they are specifically relieved of their duties, but subject to the provisions of this Charter.

All records, property and equipment of any office, department or agency, or part thereof, all of the powers and duties of which are assigned to any other office, department or agency by or pursuant to this Charter, shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department or agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers and duties of any office, department or agency or part thereof is assigned to another office, department or agency by or pursuant to this Charter, all records, property and equipment relating exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department or agency to which said powers and duties are so assigned.

For the purpose of nominating and electing the first Mayor and first Councilmen, the provisions of this Charter shall become operative when the concurrent resolution of the legislature approving this Charter is filed with the Secretary of State. For all other purposes this Charter shall become operative at twelve o'clock noon on the first Tuesday next following the date of the election of the first Mayor and first Councilmen and the qualification of not less than five members of the Council so elected. At such time the terms of all elective officers of the City under the preceding Charter shall terminate.

The first council elected hereunder shall immediately by resolution create temporary departments for the administration of the City government and shall appoint temporary heads thereof, said temporary department heads to continue as such until appointment of their successors by the Chief Administrative Officer under the provisions of this Charter.

It is hereby declared that any gender references including but not limited to the terms "man" or "men," "he," "him," or "his" in this Charter or any ordinances, resolutions or other written policies of the City of Fresno should be gender neutral and shall be amended to reflect gender neutrality when the particular Charter Section, ordinance, resolution or other written policy is amended for any purpose.

(Amendment ratified 1988 Primary Election, June 7, 1988.)