of the state civil service at the time this act takes effect shall
be assigned to a position in the proper department created by this
act, and, so far as possible, to duties equivalent to his former
office or employment; and such officers and employes shall be
employes of the state in the classified civil service of the state
of the same standing, grade and privileges which they respectively
had in the office, board, department, commission or institution from
which they were transferred, subject, however, to existing and
future civil service laws. This section shall not be construed to
require the retention of more employes than are necessary to the
proper performance of the functions of such departments.
All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal,
and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and
duties by this act transferred to or vested in a department created
by this act, or to or in any other office, department or
institution, at the time this act takes effect shall be delivered
and transferred to the department, office or institution succeeding
to such rights, powers and duties.
This act shall not affect any act done, ratified or affirmed, or any
right accrued or established, or any pending action, prosecution or
proceedings, civil or criminal, at the time it takes effect; nor
shall this act effect causes of such action, prosecution or
proceeding existing at the time it takes effect; but such actions,
prosecutions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued, or
instituted and prosecuted, by or before the department having
jurisdiction or power under this act of the subject matter to which
such action, prosecution or proceeding pertains.
If the senate is not in session at the time initial appointments are
to be made under this act, the governor shall make temporary
appointments as in case of a vacancy, to all offices required by
this act to be filled by appointment by the governor by and with the
advice and consent of the senate, unless the initial appointments
are otherwise provided for in this act.
If this act shall go into effect prior to the expiration of the
present fiscal year, the present existing departments, bureaus,
offices, boards, commissions, and other organizations of the state
government affected by this act shall continue, and the officers and
employes therein shall continue to serve until the expiration of the
present fiscal year for which appropriations have been made, unless
their terms of office expire prior thereto; and the reorganization
herein provided for shall be put into effect and the officers whose
positions are hereby created shall assume their duties at the
commencement of the succeeding fiscal year.