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CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA We, tho people of the City of Santa Ana, State of California, do ordain end establish this Charter as the organic law of the City of Santa Ana under the Constitution of the State of California. ARTIC~.E I INCORPORATION AND SUCCESSION Section 100. NAME OF CITY. The City of Santa Aha shell con- tinue to be · muncipal body politic end corporate and shall be possessed of all of the property and interest of which it wes possessed at the time this Charter takes effect. Section 101. BOUNDARIES. The boundaries of the City shall be tho boundaries as established at the time this Charter takes effect, with the power and authority to change the same being as provided by law. Section 102. FIRST FISCAL YEAR. The first fiscal year shall begin on the first day the provisions of this Charter become effective and shall end on the last day of the following June, end the succeeding fiscsl years shall end respectively on the I.ist day of June in each succeeding year. Section 103. RIGHTS OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES PRESERVED. Nothing in this Charter contained, except es specifically provided, shell affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers or employees of the City in relation to personnel, appointment, ranks, grades, tenure of office, promotion, removal, pension and retirement rights, civil rights, or any other rights or privileges of officers or employees of the City or any office, department, or agency thereof. Section 104. CONTINUANCE OF PRESENT OFFICERS AND EM- PLOYEES. All officers and employees of tho City at the time this Charter takes effect shall continue in the performance of their duties until provision shall have been made In accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of such duties. Section 105. TRANSFER OF RECORDS AND PROPERTY. All records, property, and equipment of any office, department,' or agency, or part thereof, all of the powers and duties of which ere assigned to any other office, department, or agency by this Charter, shall be trans- ferred and delivered to the office, department, or agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers and duties of any office, department, or agency, or part thereof is by this Charter assigned to another office, department, or agency, all records, property, and equipment relating exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department, er agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned. Section 106. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES. The City of Santa Ana, as successor in interest of the municipal corporation of the same name, shall own, possess, control, and in every way succeed to and become the owner of all rights and of all property of every kind and nature owned, --5-- ¸il,