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Section 12� _. . __ 9. Disabled employees;_ . pensions, ineurance. . The commission shall have authority to provide the rules and regulations for maintaining employees when injured and 4 disabled while 'performing their duties, or it may provide for such plan of insurance as it deems .proper. The Commis- sion may establish a pension .plan for anv emnlnveo w%n has been continuously employed by tie city for twenty (205. years and who shall have reached the age of fifty-five (55)., or may adopt in lieu thereof' any pension system avhilable tw . cities under. state law. The amount of said pension shall be graded and proportioned to the average salary received by the - employee during the whole period of his employment. All those falling under the head of employees in this charter and who are employed by the city when the same takes effect ' shall be entitled to a credit for the years of continuous service heretofore served. Provided however that any payment under this provision shall never constitute a waiver or stop the city from- asserting any defenses it might have under section 5, of Article I of this charter. Section 130, Effect of this charter on existing law. All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations no' w in force under the city government of the City of La Porte and -not in conflict with the provisions of this charter shall remain in force under this charter until. altered, amended or repealed by the commission after this charter takes effect; and all rights of the City of La Porte under -existing franchises and contracts are preserved in full force and effect to the City of La Porte, and any unissued bonds and revenue bonds, or in- stallments thereof, heretofore authorized at an election held in said city -shall not be affected by the adoption of this char- ter, but -the right to sell, issue, and deliver same, in whole or in part, in keeping -with the provisions of the laws under which they were voted is hereby expressly reserved. Section 131. Interim municipal government. From and after the date of the adoption of this charter and.until the completion of the first election under this charter to be held on the fourth Tuesday in April, A. D. 1950, and the qualification of the mayor and commissioners therein elected, the present qualified and acting mayor and two (2) present qualified and acting commissioners shall constitute the commission of the City of La Porte. Such commission shall . possess all of the powers provided by this charter and pat- ticularly by Article II hereof. Section 132. Amending the charter. Amendments to this charter may be framed and submitted to the electors of the city by ' a charter commission in the manner provided by law for framing and *submitting a new charter. Amendments may also be proposed and submitted by ordinance, passed by a majority vote of the full member- ship of the commission, or by a petition signed by not ledge than twenty-five per cent (2591, ) of the number of those who voted at the last regular municipal election, provided, however, that in the latter case the .petition must bear the signatures of at least ten per centum (107o) of the qualified voters of the city. When a charter amendment petition shall have been filed with the commission in conformity with the provisions of this charter as to petitions for initiated ordi- nances, the commission shall forthwith provide by ordinance for ;submitting such proposed amendments to a vote of the electors. Any ordinance for submitting a charter amendment to the electors shall provide that such amendment be sub- mitted at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty (60) days nor more than one hun- -dred and twenty (120) days after 'the passage of the •or - 1,