The inhabitants of the City of Lufkin, Angelina 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 Lufkin” hereinafter referred to as the “city,” with such powers, privileges, rights, duties and immunities as are herein provided.
(Amended at election of 5/7/94)
The city shall have all the power granted to cities by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas together with all of the implied powers necessary to carry into execution such granted powers. The powers hereby conferred upon the city shall include, but are not restricted to, the powers conferred expressly and permissively by chapter 147, page 307, of the Acts of the 33rd Legislature, Regular Session, enacted in 1913 pursuant to the Home Rule Amendment of the Constitution of Texas, known as the Enabling Act and including articles 1175, 1176, 1177, 1178, 1179, 1180, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as now or hereafter amended, all of which are hereby adopted. In addition to the powers enumerated herein, and subject only to the limitations imposed by the state constitution, the state laws and this Charter, the city shall have, without the necessity of express enumeration, each and every power which, by virtue of article XI, section V, of the Constitution of Texas, 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. All such powers, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed in this Charter; or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance.
(Amended at election of 5/7/94)
The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be, and shall be known as, “council-manager government.” Pursuant to the provisions of, and subject only to the limitations imposed by, the state constitution, the state laws and this Charter, all powers of the city shall be vested in and exercised by an elective council, hereinafter referred to as the “council.”
(Amended at election of 5/7/94)