The inhabitants of the City of Highland Village, Texas, 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 Highland Village," hereafter known as the "City."
(Ordinance 01-850, sec. 3, adopted 2/27/01)
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 Texas State Constitution, the statutes of the State of Texas, and by this Charter, all powers of the City shall be vested in the elected City Council, hereinafter referred to as the "Council."
(Ordinance 01-850, sec. 3, adopted 2/27/01)
The bounds and limits of the City of Highland Village, Texas, are hereby established as described in the original incorporation proceedings of the City filed of record February 18, 1963, in the office of the clerk of the county court of Denton County, Texas, and those boundaries established and changed thereafter in all annexation ordinances and proceedings of the City of Highland Village, Texas.
A. 
The Council shall have the power by ordinance to fix the boundary limits of the City and to provide for the alteration of said boundary limits and the annexation of additional territory lying adjacent to it, whether said territory be inhabited or uninhabited. Should the territory be inhabited, the Council may also, upon a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters in such territory, consider such petition for annexation. The Council shall not consider any petition or act to annex any inhabited territory unless the City can provide fire and police protection to the territory at the time of annexation. Services not mentioned therein shall be provided at such time as designated by the Council.
B. 
No annexation ordinance shall be passed unless a public hearing has been held.
C. 
The Council shall provide and publish notices as required by the laws of the State of Texas.
D. 
When any additional territory has been annexed, it shall be a part of the City. The property situated therein shall bear its prorated part of the taxes levied by the City, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all rights and privileges of other citizens of the City, and shall be bound by the acts, ordinances, and resolutions of the City.
E. 
All powers of annexation of the Council are subject to the provisions of the Municipal Annexation Act of the State of Texas.
(Ordinance 01-850, sec. 3, adopted 2/27/01)
A. 
Whenever there exists within the corporate limits of the City any territory adjoining the outer boundary of the City, either inhabited or uninhabited, not suitable or necessary for City purposes, or upon a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters residing in said inhabited territory, the Council may, upon a public hearing and by ordinance duly passed, disannex said territory as part of the City.
B. 
Any petition and/or ordinance as described above shall specify accurately the metes and bounds of the territory sought to be eliminated from the City and shall contain a plat designating such territory sought to be eliminated from the City so that the same can be definitely ascertained. When said ordinance has been duly passed, the same shall be entered upon the minutes and records of the City and the territory shall immediately cease to be a part of the City. The territory shall remain responsible for liabilities incurred by the City for the disannexed area during the time it was a part of the city.
C. 
All powers of disannexation of the Council are subject to the provisions of the Municipal Annexation Act of the State of Texas.
(Ordinance 01-850, sec. 3, adopted 2/27/01)