SEC. 18.102. OBLIGATIONS OF CONTRACT NOT IMPAIRED.
§ 18.102
Existing legal rights, contracts, and obligations remain in effect when this Charter takes effect, but responsibility for them transfers to whichever city office, agency, or department now has the relevant assigned functions.
When this Charter (the city's governing document) goes into effect, all contracts and legal obligations that existed before don't disappear. They stay in force. However, if the Charter moves a function from one city department to another, the new department takes over handling that matter.
- Complex:The sentence structure is densely packed with legal terms and multiple categories of legal instruments (rights, claims, actions, orders, obligations, proceedings, bond authorizations, contracts) that could be clearer if enumerated or explained with examples.
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Official text
All rights, claims, actions, orders, obligations, proceedings, bond authorizations and contracts existing on the operative date of this Charter shall not be affected by the adoption of this Charter, except that where functions, powers and duties have been reassigned, the office, agency or department to which the assignment is made shall have charge of the matter.