§ 1.11-1107. Officers and Employes.

 (a)  Nothing in this Charter, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of persons who are County officials or employes at the time of this adoption; and nothing shall diminish the rights or privileges of any former employe or any present employe in his or her pension or retirement benefits.

 (b)  Any employe holding a County position at the time this Charter takes effect, who was serving in the same or comparable position on the first Monday of January 1978, shall not be subject to competitive tests as a condition for continuance in the same position, but in all other respects shall be subject to the personnel system provided for in this Charter.

 (c)  Members of agencies in office at the time this Charter takes effect shall remain in office for as long as their respective terms of appointment shall continue, unless and until an agency shall be abolished, combined with another, or reconstituted, in which case the members thereof shall vacate their respective offices upon notice from the Board to do so.