All records and accounts of every office, department or agency of the city shall be open to inspection by any citizen, at all reasonable times and under reasonable regulations established by the council in accordance with the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
All officers of the city, whether elected or appointed, shall qualify by taking the oath described by the constitution of this state and by executing such bond as may be required under the provisions of this Charter and the ordinances and resolutions of the city council.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
The city shall have the right to grant its employees benefits of the Texas Municipal Retirement System, or any other pension or retirement system available to cities. The council shall also have the authority to provide rules and regulations for maintaining employees when injured and disabled while performing their duties, or it may provide for such plan of insurance as it deems proper.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
No officer or employee of the city shall participate in a vote or decision on any matter involving a business entity or real property in which the official or employee has a substantial interest as provided by state law.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
The council shall have the authority to establish and maintain a free public library within the city and to cooperate with any other governmental authority or any person, firm or corporation under such terms as the council may describe for the establishment and maintenance of such free public library.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
The city council shall have the power, by ordinance, to renumber and rearrange all articles, sections, subsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs of the Charter or any amendments thereto, as it shall deem appropriate.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
None of the city’s property shall be liable to be sold or appropriated under any writ of execution or cost bill. The funds belonging to the city in the hands of any person, firm or corporation, shall not be liable to garnishment, attachment or sequestration; nor shall the city be liable to garnishment on account of any debt it may owe or funds or property it may have on hand owing to any person. Neither the city nor any of its officers or agents shall be required to answer such writs of garnishment on any account whatsoever, and the city shall not be obligated to recognize any assignment of wages or funds by its employees, agents or contractors.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
All ordinances, resolutions, rules, and regulations now in force under the city government of the City of Humble shall remain in full force and effect until altered, amended or repealed by the council after this Charter takes effect; and all existing franchises and contracts are preserved in full force and effect, and all lawsuits, taxes, penalties, forfeitures and all other rights, claims and demands, which have accrued under the laws heretofore enforced governing the City of Humble, shall continue in full force and effect and shall not in any way be diminished, affected or prejudiced by the adoption of this Charter.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
This Charter shall be liberally construed to carry out its intent and purposes, and if any section or part of a section of this Charter shall be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which such section or part of a section so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part of a section may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of a section to which such holding shall directly apply provided by law for framing and submitting a new Charter [sic].
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
Amendments to this Charter may be framed and submitted to the electors of the city by a Charter commission in the manner provided by law for framing and submitting a new Charter. Amendments may also be proposed and submitted by ordinance, passed by a majority vote of the full membership of the council or by a petition signed by not less than twenty-five (25) percent of the number of those who voted at the last regular municipal election, provided, however, that in the latter case the petition must bear the signatures of at least ten per centum of the qualified voters of the city. When a Charter amendment petition shall have been filed with the council in conformity with the provisions of this Charter as to petitions for initiated ordinances, the council shall forthwith provide by ordinance for submitting such proposed amendments to a vote of the electors. Any ordinance for submitting a Charter amendment to the electors shall provide that such amendment be submitted at the next regular municipal election if one shall occur not less than sixty (60) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days after the passage of the ordinance; otherwise, it shall provide for the submission of the amendment at a special election to be called and held within the time aforesaid. Not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election, the city secretary shall mail a copy of the proposed amendment or amendments to each qualified voter in said city as appears from the latest rolls of the tax collector. If a proposed amendment be approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon, it shall become a part of the Charter at the time fixed therein. Each amendment shall be confined to one subject; and when more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same time they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. This Charter cannot be amended, altered or repealed more often than every two years.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)
At least every ten (10) years, the city council shall appoint a Charter review commission of citizens of the city to inquire into the operation of the city government under the Charter provisions and determine whether any such provisions require revision, and to report its findings and present its proposed amendments, if any, to the city council.
(Ordinance 22-934 adopted 5/26/22)