This Charter is declared to be a public act, and all courts shall take judicial notice thereof.
Any ordinance, may be proved by a copy thereof, certified by the City Clerk under the seal of the City. Any ordinance, when printed in code form by authority of the City, shall be received in evidence in all courts or other places without further proof of authenticity.
No action shall be maintained against the City for or on account of any injury growing out of alleged negligence of the City unless notice shall first have been given in writing to the City Manager within one hundred eighty (180) days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed. Such notice shall state the place, time, character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages therefor from the City.
The City shall not be required to give bond in any judicial proceeding or appeal.
The Council shall have power by ordinance to license, tax, and regulate all businesses, occupations, professions, vocations, or other activities set forth and enumerated by the Statutes of this State now or hereafter applicable to constitutional charter cities, or Cities of the first, second, third or fourth or other class, or of any population group, and which any such Cities are now or hereafter may be permitted by law to license, tax or regulate.
Amendments to this Charter may be framed and submitted to the electors by a commission in the manner provided by law and the Constitution of Missouri for framing and submitting a complete Charter. Amendments may also be proposed by the Council or by petition of not less than ten percent (10%) of the registered voters of the City, filed with the City Clerk, setting forth the proposed amendments. The Council shall at once provide by ordinance that any amendment so proposed shall be submitted to the electors at the next election held in the City not less than sixty (60) days after its passage or at a special election held as provided by law and the Constitution of Missouri for a Charter. Any amendment approved by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon shall become a part of the Charter at the time and under the conditions fixed in the amendments. Sections or articles may be submitted separately or in the alternative and determined as provided by law and the Constitution of Missouri for a complete Charter.
If any provision of this Charter be held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the validity, force or effect of any other provision shall not thereby be affected.