[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. I § 1]
The inhabitants of the City of University City, within the corporate
limits as now established or as hereafter established in the manner
provided by law, shall continue to be a municipal body politic and
corporate in perpetuity, under the name of the "City of University
City".
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. I § 2]
The municipal government provided by this Chapter shall be known
as a "Council manager government". Pursuant to the provisions of this
Charter and subject only to the limitations imposed hereby and by
the constitution of Missouri, all powers of the city shall be vested
in an elective council, hereinafter referred to as "the council,"
which shall enact local legislation, adopt budgets, determine policies
and appoint the city manager, who shall execute the laws and administer
the government of the city.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. I § 3]
The city shall have all powers of local self-government and
home rule, and all powers possible for a city to have under the constitution
and laws of Missouri, or which it would be competent for the legislature
to grant; and except as prohibited by the constitution or laws of
the state, the city may exercise all municipal powers, functions,
rights, privileges and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever.
Such powers shall be exercised in the manner prescribed in this Charter,
or, if not prescribed herein, in such manner as may be prescribed
by the council.
The enumeration of particular powers in this Charter is not
exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or phrases granting
powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant power in this article
impair a power granted in any other part of this Charter; and whether
powers, objects or purposes are expressed conjunctively or disjunctively
they shall be construed so as to permit the council to exercise freely
any one or more such powers as to any one or more such objects for
any one or more such purposes.
[R.O. 2011 Charter Art. I § 4; Ord. No. 4389, § 3]
The city is hereby divided into three wards, bounded and numbered
as the wards of the city now are; provided that from time to time
corrected ward boundaries may be established by ordinance, which shall
comprise, as nearly as possible, compact and contiguous territory,
and contain as nearly as may be an equal number of persons.
