47. When a territory is annexed to a municipality, the members of the council and officers of the corporation of such municipality remain in office and form the council and the officers of the municipality as constituted by the annexation.
For the purposes of determining a right conferred by article 268, 274, 275 or 276, any period during which a person meets the requirements of such article in the annexed territory before the annexation, is considered a period spent in the annexing municipality from the beginning, if it is still running at the time of the annexation and as long as it continues in such annexing municipality.
The second paragraph also applies in the case of a candidate, the consort of a candidate or an elector in respect of whom an annexation effective before 27 June 1975 would otherwise have interrupted the period during which such person had to meet the requirements of such articles in one and the same municipality for the purposes of an election held after such date.
The remainder of the municipality, in case of the erection or annexation of part of its territory, continues to form a separate municipality under its own name, or under another name, in conformity with article 52, if it conforms to the conditions required for constituting such a municipality. The members of the council and the officers and employees of the corporation then in office continue to perform their duties as such, subject to this Code and any other law applicable.
M.C. 1916, a. 44; 1975, c. 82, s. 1; 1982, c. 63, s. 4.