(A.) 
The inhabitants of the City of San Juan, Hidalgo County, Texas, within the corporate limits as now established or as hereafter established in the manner provided by this Charter, shall continue to be and are hereby constituted a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity, under the name of the “City of San Juan”, hereinafter referred to as “the City”, with such powers, privileges, rights, duties, and immunities as are herein provided.
(B.) 
San Juan shall be a Home Rule City, with full power of local self government, including the right to amend this Charter, as provided by the Constitution and laws of this State. It shall have and may exercise all the powers granted to cities by the Constitution or laws of Texas including specifically those powers made available to cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants by what is known as the Home Rule Amendment to the Constitution of Texas (Article XI, Section 5) and the Home Rule Enabling Act (Chapter 13, Title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925) as now or hereafter amended. The City may acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any municipal purpose; may cooperate with the government of Texas or any agency thereof, or with the Federal government or any agency thereof, or with the government of any county, city or political subdivision to accomplish any lawful purpose for the advancement of the health, morals, safety, convenience or welfare of the City or its inhabitants; may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, maintain and control such property as its interest may require; provided the City shall not sell, convey, lease, mortgage or otherwise alienate any City-owned public utility without prior approval by the qualified voters of the City; and may exercise the power of eminent domain when necessary or desirable to carry out any of the powers conferred upon it by this Charter or the Constitution or laws of Texas.
The enumeration of particular powers in this Charter shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but in addition to the powers enumerated herein, implied thereby or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the City shall have and may exercise all other powers which under the Constitution and general laws of this State it would be competent for this Charter to specifically enumerate.
(C.) 
Applicable County and State of Texas laws as now exist or hereafter amended, such as, but not exclusive, the Constitution of Texas, and its amendments and Title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925 and its amendments shall be hereafter in this Charter referred to as “governing laws”, “law(s)”, or, specifically “State Law(s)”.
The City shall have the full power and right to exercise the power of eminent domain when necessary or desirable to carry out any of the powers converted upon it by this Charter or by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas. The City may exercise the power of eminent domain in any manner authorized or permitted by the Constitution and laws of this State. The power of eminent domain hereby conferred shall include the right of the City to take the fee in land so condemn[ed] and such power and authority shall include the right to condemn public property for such purposes. The City shall have the possess and power [sic] of condemnation for any municipal or public purposes even though not specifically enumerated in this Charter.
(A.) 
The City shall have exclusive dominion, control, and jurisdiction in, upon, over, and under the public squares, and public ways within the corporate limits of the City, and in, upon, over, and under all public property of the City. With respect to each and every public street, sidewalk, alley, highway, public square, or other public way within the corporate limits of the City, the City shall have the power to establish, maintain, alter, abandon, or vacate the same; to regulate, establish, or change the grade thereof; to control and regulate the use, thereof; and to abate and remove in a summary manner any encroachment thereon.
(B.) 
The City shall have the power to develop and improve, or cause to be developed and improved, any and all public streets, sidewalks, alleys, highways, and other public ways within the corporate limits of the City by laying out, opening, narrowing, widening, straightening, extending, and establishing building lines along the same; by purchasing, condemning, and taking property therefor; by filling, grading, raising, lowering, paving, repaving, and repairing, in a permanent manner, the same; and by constructing, altering, repairing, and realigning curbs, gutters, drains, sidewalks, culverts, and other appurtenances and incidentals in connection with such developments. The City may make or cause to be made any one or more of the kinds of classes of development and improvement authorized hereinabove, or any combination or parts thereof. The cost of such development and improvement shall be paid by the City, or partly by the City and partly by assessments levied against the property abutting thereon and the owners thereof, and such assessments may be levied in any amounts and under any procedure now or hereafter permitted by State law. The City Commission shall have the power to assess a special tax on street railways for improvement of area occupied by said railways in accordance with governing State law. As an alternate and cumulative method of developing, improving, and paving any and all public streets[,] sidewalks, alleys, highways, and other Public ways within the corporate limits, the City shall have the power and authority to proceed in accordance with governing State laws. The City shall likewise have the power to make any such development, improvement or paving with its own forces if, in the opinion of the City Commission, the work can be done more expeditiously or economically, and in such event the City shall have the power to reimburse itself for the cost of such improvement in the same amount and in the same manner as if the work had been performed by a successful bidding contractor.
(A.) 
INHABITANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ADJOINING CITY; ANNEXATION:
Territory adjoining and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City as defined herein, may be annexed to said City regardless of the shape or configuration or size thereof, upon application being made therefor in writing to the City Commission of the City describing the territory by metes and bounds sought to be annexed, which said application shall be signed by a majority of those residing in said territory who are qualified to vote for members of the Legislature of the State of Texas, which said application shall be proved by the affidavit of those or more persons that the signatures thereto are genuine. Said application shall be presented in the manner as stated in Section 11.03 and 11.04 except where it states initiative petition, referendum petition and petition or make any reference thereto it shall now state or make reference to said application. In the event it is found by the said City Commission that a majority of said qualified voters residing in such territory are favorable to annexation, then the said City Commission may, by ordinance, declare such territory annexed to the City, as provided by general law, and the same shall thenceforth be an integral part of said City. The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to prohibit the owner of any uninhibited territory or property contiguous to the City, as defined in this act, from making application to the City Commission [to] have the same annexed to the City, and when such application is made and acted upon, an ordinance shall be passed, as provided for the annexation of other territory by governing State law, and said property when so annexed shall be covered by the same rules and regulations as other territory annexed under the provisions of this Section.
(B.) 
BY THE CITY COMMISSION; ANNEXATION:
In the alternative, the City Commission shall also have power by ordinance to fix the boundary limits of San Juan and to provide for the extension of said boundary limits and the annexation of additional territory laying adjacent to said City, with or without the consent of the inhabitants of the territory annexed, not inconsistent with the procedural rules prescribed by law applicable to cities operation under charters adopted or amended under Article XI, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Texas. Said ordinance, in original or amended form, as said City Commission in its judgment may determine, may be finally passed, and the territory so annexed shall be a part of the City, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all rights and privileges of other citizens and shall be bound by the acts, ordinances, resolutions and regulations of said City. The City Commission by either an election or petition, in similar manner as described in Section 10.03 or Section 11.03 and 11.04, respectively, except where it states the City it shall now state said territory and where in Section 11.03 and 11.04 it states initiative petition, referendum petition and petition or make any reference thereto it shall now state or make reference to said petition, shall obtain an opinion of the majority of voters and landowners. Voters shall be those who reside in said territory and are qualified to vote for members of the Legislature of the State of Texas. Majority for an election shall be those who are qualified and voting at said election. The City Commission shall make a reasonable attempt in obtaining an opinion from each owner of a contiguous plot of ten (10) acres or more which contains no more than one domicile. However, the City, may annex in accordance with governing State law, said territory without the consent of those whose opinion was solicited as previously stated if it is felt that said territory to be annexed is necessary to maintain orderly growth and security of the City, such as, but not exclusively, to empower the City with the necessary extraterritorial jurisdiction powers to regulate subdivision, to prevent neighboring cities from dominating the City. Said opinion shall not be obtained thirty (30) days prior to beginning annexation proceedings and not later than eight (8) days prior to finalized annexation of said territory.
(C.) 
ANNEXATION BY ANY OTHER METHOD PROVIDED BY LAW:
Additional territory may also be annexed to the City in any manner and by any procedure that may now be provided by law or that may be hereafter provided by law and in accordance with this Charter.
(D.) 
There shall be set forth in every ordinance in and by which territory is annexed to the City of San Juan a clear and definite description of the territory annexed, either by metes and bounds, or otherwise, so as to clearly and definitely define the same, but it shall not be necessary to embody such description in the title or caption of such ordinance.
(E.) 
All territory annexed to the City under the provisions of this Section 1.04 shall become and be thereafter liable for all just and legal indebtedness of the City, without reference to when such debts were contracted, and the City Commission shall have the power to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes upon all property within such annexed territory to meet any such indebtedness, on the same basis as other property in the City.
(F.) 
BY THE CITY, COMMISSION; DETACHMENT:
Whenever there exists within the corporate limits of the City of San Juan any territory contiguous to such City limits, not suitable or necessary for City purposes, the City Commission may, upon a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters owning taxable property and residing in such territory, if the same be inhabited; or, if the same be uninhabited upon a petition signed by a majority of those owning taxable property, by ordinance duly passed by a four-fifths vote of all the members of the City Commission, discontinue said territory as a part of said City. Said petition and ordinance shall specify accurately the metes and bounds of the territory sought to be eliminated from the City and shall contain a plot designating such territory so that the same can be definitely ascertained; and when said ordinance has been duly passed, the same shall be entered upon the minutes and records of said City, and from and after the entry of such ordinance, said territory shall still be liable for its pro rata share of any debts incurred while said area was a part of said City. All taxes levied by the City on property in the area excluded from the boundaries of the City under the provisions hereof, remaining unpaid at the time of said exclusion, and the liens thereof, and the liability of the owners therefore, shall continue in full force and effect and be collectable and enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent as if said property had remained within and as a part of said City. The City Commission shall determine, at the time of the exclusion of said area from the City, what unpaid debts of the said City is excluded territory is liable for, and shall determine the pro rata part of said indebtedness which shall be that portion thereof that the assessed valuation of property in the excluded area hears [bears] to the total assessed valuation property in the City as a whole, according to the latest assessment roll of the City, and the property in said excluded area shall remain subject to annual taxation by the City for the payment of the pro rata part of said indebtedness for which the property in said excluded area is liable, determined as herein provided, until the entire amount of such pro rata part of said indebtedness shall be paid. All taxes assessed against the property in said excluded area for payment of its pro rata part of said indebtedness shall be credited upon the amount of said indebtedness for which said excluded area remains liable; provided that the owners of the taxable property in said excluded area may at any time discharge said property from any further liability for said indebtedness by paying in a lump sum the then unpaid portion of said indebtedness for which the property in said excluded area remains liable. In the event of such payment and discharge for such unpaid portion of said indebtedness, the City Commission shall execute a recordable instrument, in writing, evidencing such payment and discharge.
(G.) 
EXTENSION OF MUNICIPAL UTILITIES:
The City shall within three (3) years of the effective date of such annexation provide or cause to be provided such area with governmental and proprietary services, the standard and scope of which are substantially equivalent to the standard and scope of governmental and proprietary services furnished by the City in other areas of the City which have characteristics or topography patterns of land utilization, and population density similar to that of the particular area annexed. Should the City fail to extend or provide for such extension within three (3) years, the owners of the annexed territory may, in accordance with Section 1.04 (F), petition the City Commission to de-annex the territory. If the City Commission fails to act on said petition within three (3) months of the date of filing the owners may then resort to suit in district court to require de-annexation.