ARTICLE 20 Transitional Provisions

This Charter shall become effective immediately upon filing and recording the Charter with the Secretary of State of Colorado following approval of the registered electors of the Town.

All ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the Town which are consistent with this Charter and which are in force and effect on the effective date of this Charter, shall continue in force and effect until repealed or amended. Any ordinances, resolutions, rules or regulations, policies and procedures which are inconsistent with this Charter are hereby repealed.

Except as otherwise provided herein, after the effective date of this Charter, all appointed officials and all employees of the Town shall continue in those Town offices or employment, which corresponds to the Town offices or employment which they held prior to the effective date of this Charter as though they had been appointed or employed in the manner provided in this Charter. In all respects, they shall be subject to the provisions of this Charter, except that any official or employee who holds a position which this Charter provides be held at the pleasure of the appointing officer or body, shall hold such position only at such pleasure regardless of the term for which originally appointed.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter, the terms of office of the Mayor and each Councilmember and of the members of each Town board and commission, serving prior to the effective date of this Charter, shall continue.

Neither the adoption of this Charter nor the amendment or repeal of any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, policy or procedure, or portion thereof, inconsistent with this Charter, shall be construed to destroy any property right, contract right or right of action of any nature or kind, civil or criminal, vested in or against the Town by virtue of any such ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation, policy or procedure, or portion thereof, or any other provision of law theretofore existing or otherwise accruing to the Town. All such rights shall vest in and inure to the Town or to any persons asserting any such claims against the Town as fully and as completely as though this Charter had not been adopted and as though there had been no amendment or repeal of any ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, policy, contract or procedure, or portion thereof. Such rights shall include but not be limited to: