Reorganizing the Structure the Executive Brnach of goverment of City of South Bend

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Page 7 "Sec. 2 -55. Model Neighborhood Planninq Agency. The South Bend Model Neighborhood Planning Agency, previously established as an executive agency of the city, is hereby continued within the Department of Human Resources and Economic Development. Said agency shall administer the Model Cities provisions of the Demon- stration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, as hereto- fore or hereafter amended." SECTION 4. Section 20 -28 of Chapter 20 of the Municipal Code of the City of South Bend, Indiana, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 20 -28. Department of Public Safety to administer and enforce this Article. The Department of Public Safety is hereby designated as the Department of the City responsible for the removal, storage, and disposal of abandoned vehicles within the meaning and purposes of the Abandoned Vehicle Act, enacted by the 1969 Indiana General Assembly, and as amended." SECTION 5. After the implementation of the respective pro- visions of this Ordinance, all property, books, papers, and documents of the pre-existing executive agencies of the City of South Bend, Indiana, shall be transferred to and shall become the property of the appropriate executive Departments and established hereby. SECTION 6. (a) If any provision of this Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity will not affect other provisions or applications of this Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid pro- visions or application, and to this end the pro- visions of this Ordinance are declared severable. (b) No provision in this Ordinance may be implemented or interpreted to conflict with the retirement and other City employee fringe benefits created by Indiana law. (c) No provision of this Ordinance may be implemented or interpreted to remove or conflict with any vested authority or rights granted any function, department, commission, board or authority of the City of South Bend, Indiana, which is granted by Indiana law. SECTION 7. This Ordinance shall become effective from the date of its approval by the Mayor, and the provisions of this Ordinance shall thereafter be implemented by the Mayor as he deems expedient to the effective and efficient reorganization of the executive branch of the City of South Bend, Indiana, subject to the availability of appro- priated funds. Member or t South Bend, .a 4-10 ist & 2nd READING 5 7� COMMITTEE OF. THE MIKE PUBLIC HEARING S• I - I )_ 3rd READING 5 -1 - -7 2- NOT APPRMO REFERRED PASSED S- -7 a HEED iN CCOWS OFFICE Irene Gammon CITY CLERK. $OUT" UND. IND. APR 2 7 197?