§ 104. CONTINUANCE OF CONTRACTS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

All contracts entered into by the City, or for its benefit prior to the effective date of this Charter, shall continue in full force and effect. Public improvements for which proceedings have been instituted under laws 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 or may be continued or perfected under this Charter.

SECTION 105. PENDING ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS.

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

SECTION 106. CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.

The members of the City Council in office at the time of the approval of this Charter by the Legislature shall continue to hold office and discharge their duties for the balance of the term for which they were elected, or until their successors are qualified and elected. All appointive officials, officers and employees of the City now in office or employed at the time of the approval of this Charter by the Legislature, shall continue to hold their office or employment until they are reappointed or their successors are appointed in their place in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.

SECTION 107. EMERGENCY POWERS.

Notwithstanding any general or special provision of this Charter, the Council, in order to ensure continuity of government operations in periods of emergency resulting from disasters of whatever nature, shall have the power and immediate duty:

(a) To provide for prompt and temporary succession to the powers and duties of all City officers, of whatever nature and whether filled by election or appointment, the incumbents of which may become unavailable for carrying on the powers and duties of such offices; and

(b) To adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for ensuring the continuity of City operations, including but not limited to the financing thereof. In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, the Council in all respects shall conform to the requirements of this Charter except to the extent that in the judgment of the Council so to do would be impractical or would admit of an undue delay.