§ 14-47-103 - Savings provisions.
14-47-103. Savings provisions.
(a) When a city effects a change of government under this chapter, it shall remain subject to and controlled by all laws, except those inconsistent with this chapter, which on the effective date of the reorganization applied to or governed the city including, without limiting the foregoing, laws relating to improvement districts or providing for the creation thereof.
(b) All bylaws, ordinances, and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in any city under its former organization, and not in conflict with this chapter, shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the board of directors elected under the authority of this chapter.
(c) The territorial limits of the city shall remain the same as under its former organization, and all rights and property of every description which were vested in the city under its former organization shall remain vested in it under the reorganization provided for in this chapter.
(d) No existing right or liability either in favor of or against the city or any agency thereof including, without limiting the foregoing, improvement districts and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by the change unless otherwise provided for in this chapter.
(e) No valid pledge or mortgage of the revenues or property of the city, or of any agency or instrumentality thereof, or of any municipal improvement district, shall be impaired by the reorganization.