7-3-158. Transition provisions affecting personnel. (1) The members of the governing body holding office on the date the new plan of government is adopted by the electors of the local government continue in office and in the performance of their duties until the governing body authorized by the plan has been elected and qualified, whereupon the prior governing body is abolished.
     (2) All other employees holding offices or positions, whether elective or appointive, under the government of the county or municipality continue in the performance of the duties of their respective offices and positions until provisions are made for the performance or discontinuance of the duties or the discontinuance of the offices or positions.
     (3) A charter or a petition proposing an alteration to an existing form of local government may provide that existing elected officers shall continue in office until the end of the term for which they were elected or may provide that existing elected officers shall be retained as local government employees until the end of the term for which they were elected, and their salaries may not be reduced.

     History: En. Sec. 23, Ch. 675, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 23, Ch. 575, L. 1981.