Redondo Beach Municipal Code § 3.7 Effective date of charter

The City of Redondo Beach, as successor in interest of the chartered municipal corporation of the same name, heretofore created and existing, shall own, possess, control, and in every way succeed to and become the owner of rights and property of every kind and nature by said existing municipal corporation owned, possessed or controlled and shall be subject to all the debts, obligations, liabilities and duty of said existing corporation.

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not in conflict, or inconsistent herewith, are hereby continued in full force and effect until the same have been duly repealed, amended, changed or superseded by proper authority.

Nothing in this Charter contained, except as specifically provided herein, shall affect or impair the civil service rights or privileges of officers or employees of the City, or of any office, department or agency thereof, existing at the time this Charter takes effect.

The present officers and employees shall, without interruption, continue to perform the duties of their respective offices and employments for the compensation provided by the preceding Charter, existing ordinances, resolutions, rules or laws, until the appointment and/or election and qualification of their successors under this Charter, subject to such removal and control as is herein provided.

All contracts heretofore entered into by the City, or for its benefit, shall continue in full force and effect after the adoption of this Charter. Public improvements for which proceedings have been instituted under laws or charter provisions existing at the time this Charter takes effect, in the discretion of the City Council, may be carried to completion as nearly as practicable in accordance with the provisions of such existing laws and charter provisions as may be continued or perfected hereunder.

No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time this Charter takes effect, brought by or against the City or any office, department or agency thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this Charter, or by anything herein contained; all such actions or proceedings may be continued notwithstanding that functions, powers and duties of any office, department or agency party thereto, by or under this Charter, may be assigned or transferred to another department or agency, but in that event, the same may be prosecuted or defended by the head of the office, department or agency to which such functions, powers and duties have been assigned or transferred by or under this Charter.

The elected officers of this City, 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 qualified.

This Charter shall take effect upon its approval by the Legislature of the State of California.