(1) 
Property, real and personal, belonging to the City shall not be liable to be sold or appropriated under any writ of execution or cost bill. 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, attachment or sequestration; not [nor] shall the City be liable to garnishment on account of any debt it may owe or duns 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 any such writ of garnishment on any account whatsoever.
(2) 
The City shall not be obligated to recognize any assignment of wages or funds by its employees, agents, or contractors, except as provided by the laws of this State or the United States of America.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
It shall not be necessary in any action, suit or proceeding in which the City is a party for any bond, undertaking or security to be demanded or executed by or on behalf of the City. All such actions shall be conducted in the same manner as if such bond, undertaking or security had been given as required by law.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
The City shall not be held liable on account of any claim for the death of any person or injuries to any person or damage to any property unless the person making such complaint or claiming such damages shall, within one hundred-twenty (120) days after the time at which it is claimed such damages were inflicted upon such person or property, file with the City a written statement, under oath, stating the nature and character of such damages or injuries, the extent of the same, the place where same happened, the circumstances under which same happened and the condition causing same, with a detailed statement of each item of damages and the amount thereof, giving a list of any witnesses known by affiliate [affiant] to have seen the accident.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
The City Council shall have the power to compromise and settle any and all claims and lawsuits of every kind [or] character, in favor of, or against, the City, including suits by the City to recover delinquent taxes.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
This Charter shall be deemed in a public act, may be read in evidence without pleading or proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places provided that the City Secretary certifies the most current City Charter with any amendments.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
No property of any kind, by whomsoever owned or held or by whatsoever institution, agency, political subdivision or organization, owned or held, whether in trust or by non-profit organization, or corporation, or by foundation, or otherwise (except property of the City), shall be exempt in any way from any of the special taxes, charges, levies, and assessments, authorized or permitted by this Charter, for local improvements, [or] for the public welfare except where provided by state law.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
In addition to any provisions contained herein, the City Council may require any City official, department director, or City employee, before entering upon his/her duties, to execute a good and sufficient bond with a surety company doing business in the State of Texas and approved by the City Council. The City shall pay the premium of such bond.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
In case of disaster when a legal quorum of the elected City Council cannot otherwise be assembled due to multiple deaths or injuries, the surviving persons of the City Council, or highest surviving City official, if no elected official remains, must, within twenty-four (24) hours of such disaster, request the highest surviving officers of the local Economic Development Corporation and the County Judge of Bell County to appoint a commission to act during the emergency as the City Council and call a City election within fifteen (15) days of such disaster, or as provided in the Texas Election Code, for election of a required quorum, if for good reasons it is known a quorum of the present City Council will never again meet.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
The Charter shall not be construed as a mere grant of enumerated powers, but shall be construed as a general grant of power and as a limitation of power on the government of the City of Nolanville in the same manner as the Constitution of Texas is construed as a limitation of the powers of the Legislature. Except where expressly prohibited by this Charter, each and every power under Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Texas, which it would competent for the people of the City of Nolanville to expressly grant to the City, will be construed to be granted to the City by this Charter.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
In any section or part of a section of this Charter shall be ruled invalid by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the remainder of this Charter nor the context in which such section or part of section so held invalid may appear, except to the extent that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably connected in meaning and effect with the section or part to which such holding shall directly apply.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
The gender of the wording throughout this Charter shall always be interpreted to mean either sex. All singular words shall include the plural and all plural words shall include the singular. All references to the state law or laws of the State of Texas, however expressed in this Charter, shall mean “as presently enacted or as may be amended or superseded.” The use of the word “City” in this Charter shall mean the City of Nolanville, Texas, and the use of the word “Charter” shall mean this Home Rule Charter. The term “qualified voter” shall mean a person who meets all legal requirements of state law and this Charter for becoming a registered voter and is also registered to vote.
(Charter adopted 11/2/10)
The City Council may, without approval of the voters, adopt an ordinance that makes the following types of revisions to the charter:
(1) 
Renumbering, revising titles, and rearranging parts thereof;
(2) 
Correcting errors in spelling, grammar, cross-references and punctuation; and
(3) 
Revising language to reflect modern usage and style.
A revision adopted under this Section is not intended to and is not to be interpreted as making any substantive change in any Charter provision.
(Ordinance 2014-11-04 #007 adopted 8/11/14, prop. 1, approved at election of 11/4/14)