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    §  1146.    Pending actions and proceedings.  No action or proceeding,
  civil or criminal, pending at the time  when  this  charter  shall  take
  effect,  brought  by or against the city or any agency or officer, shall
  be affected or abated by the adoption of this  charter  or  by  anything
  therein  contained; but all such actions or proceedings may be continued
  notwithstanding that functions, powers  and  duties  of  any  agency  or
  officer  party thereto may by this charter be assigned or transferred to
  another agency or officer, but in that event the same may be  prosecuted
  or  defended  by  the head of the agency to which such functions, powers
  and duties have been assigned or transferred by this charter.