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.

Section 5.  This act is hereby declared to be an emergency law necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety.  The reasons for such necessity lie in facts, which two-thirds of all the members elected to each branch of the general assembly have considered, found and determined and which are separately set forth herein, as follows: 

The eighty-third general assembly created a joint legislative committee to “investigate all of the * * * offices which have been created by the general assembly * * * with a view of * * * combining and centralizing the duties of the various departments, eliminating such as are useless and securing for the state of Ohio such a reorganization of its governmental activities as will promote greater efficiency and greater economy therein.”  Said committee made exhaustive investigations and published numerous reports, declaring the necessity of reorganizing fundamentally the executive branch of the state government in order to promote efficiency and conserve the public funds.  Upon the organization of the eighty-fourth general assembly, special committees were appointed in each house thereof to consider the recommendations of the former joint committee.  The governor, in his message to the general assembly, recommended action along the general lines indicated by the former committee’s report.  Wide publicity has been given to various projected plans of reorganization.