This charter shall become effective on the first Monday of January, 1952, except in the following particulars:

(1) The Mayor and the members of the Council shall be elected in 1951 under the provisions of this charter, and for that purpose section 2-100, section 2-101, section 2-102, section 2-103, section 3-200, and section 3-300 shall become effective immediately upon the adoption of this charter by the electors.

(2) If the electors in adopting this charter shall vote in the affirmative on Question No. 3, a Revenue Commissioner (heretofore called "Receiver of Taxes") shall not be elected in 1951. If the electors shall vote in the negative on Question No. 3, section 3-100(a) shall, insofar as it changes the title of "Receiver of Taxes" to "Revenue Commissioner," become effective upon the adoption of this charter so as to permit a Revenue Commissioner to be elected in 1951, but the Receiver of Taxes may continue to use that title until the first Monday of January, 1952.

(3) All appropriations made in the budget ordinance for the year 1952 shall be made to the then existing offices, departments, boards and commissions of the City or their successors under this charter. Provision shall also be made in the budget ordinance for the year 1952, for any offices, departments, boards or commissions created by this charter to exercise new functions and any such provision may be increased in 1952 notwithstanding sections 2-300 and 2-301 of this charter.

(4) The Mayor shall appoint promptly upon taking office in 1952 all officers and department heads which this charter authorizes him to appoint; the Managing Director and Director of Finance shall promptly upon taking office appoint the officers whom this charter authorizes them to appoint; and the Civil Service Commission shall promptly upon taking office appoint Personnel Director. Insofar as possible, the new officers and new department heads shall immediately assume charge of the functions over which this charter gives them jurisdiction but in cases in which the functions of abolished departments, boards or commissions are divided among several departments, boards or commissions, reorganization under this charter shall proceed as promptly as possible, but in such a way as not to disrupt the continuous conduct of the City's business. The old departments may be continued until the new departments are ready to function, and the Mayor may designate any of the new department heads to serve as acting heads of one or more of the old departments until the reorganization is completed. The reorganization shall in all cases be completed and the old departments shall cease to exist not later than July 1, 1952.

(5) Appropriations to the Personnel Director and to the Civil Service Commission shall be made in the budget ordinance for the year 1952 as required by this charter.

ANNOTATION

Sources: No specific source.

Purposes: 1. While this Charter becomes effective for the most part in 1952, certain of its provisions must necessarily become operative before that time.

2. Thus as a Mayor and Council are to be elected to take office in January 1952 as provided by this Charter, provisions pertaining to their election had to become effective immediately upon adoption of the Charter [subsection (1)].

3. Likewise, appropriations must be made in 1951 for 1952 operations of officers and agencies under this Charter. If such appropriations are made to agencies under the 1919 Charter, as they may be made, the funds appropriated are to be allocated administratively to the new agencies under this Charter upon their establishment in 1952, according to functions transferred. Thus an appropriation in 1951 for 1952 to the Department of Public Safety will be divided in 1952 among the Police Department, Fire Department, Department of Streets, etc. Since it will not be possible to predict with complete accuracy the amount of funds which will be needed for new agencies exercising new functions, appropriations made in 1951 may be increased in 1952; the prohibition of Sections 2-300 and 2-301 will not be applicable in this instance.

4. Subsection (4) stresses the intention that this Charter shall be promptly and completely put into effect in 1952 and therefore places an ultimate time limit for completing the reorganization required by July 1, 1952.

5. The appropriation in 1951 for the Personnel Director's and Civil Service Commission's operations in 1952 must be an amount equal to at least one-half of one percent of the aggregate of all appropriations for compensation to City employees who will be subject to civil service in 1952. See Section 2-300(4)(a).