The inhabitants of the City of Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, residing within its corporate limits, as heretofore or hereafter established, are hereby constituted and shall continue to be a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the name of "The City of Sherman", hereinafter referred to as the "city".
The city shall have and be possessed of all authority and all powers, privileges, rights, duties and immunities provided hereunder; all those which are now or which at any time hereafter may be granted to or provided in favor of cities by or under the Constitution or Laws of the State of Texas, as now existing and as hereafter changed and amended; all those which, without the necessity of express enumeration, the people of the city are empowered by election to grant or confer upon the city by expressly and specifically granting and enumerating the same herein; and all those necessary or incidental to any and all of the foregoing or implied therefrom. To the extent provided by or under this charter, same shall be exercised and enforced in the manner provided for hereunder, but otherwise in such manner as may be provided by ordinance or other applicable law.
Solely by way of illustration and example, and not by way of limitation on or enumeration of the foregoing, or any part thereof, the city, being a home rule city, shall have all powers, privileges, rights, duties and immunities, express and implied, provided in favor of or exercisable by home rule cities by or under the Constitution of the State of Texas or laws enacted pursuant thereto, as now existing and as hereafter at any time amended or changed.
The provisions of this charter shall be construed liberally in favor of the city, and the specific mention of particular powers in the charter shall not be construed as limiting in any way the general powers stated in this article.
The city may exercise any of its powers or perform any of its functions, and may participate in the financing thereof, jointly or in cooperation, by contract or otherwise, with any one or more states or civil divisions or agencies thereof, or the United States or any agency thereof.
The municipal government provided by this charter shall be known as the "council-manager" government. Pursuant to its provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the Constitution of the State of Texas and by this charter, all powers of the city shall be vested in an elective council. All of the powers of the city shall be exercised in the manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.