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)
It shall not be necessary in any action or proceeding in which
the City of Humble is a party, for any bond or security to be demanded
or executed by or on behalf of said city in any of the courts of this
state.
(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)
