The City shall have power:
(A.) 
To acquire property by condemnation within or without its corporate limits for any municipal purpose, and, for the purpose of; (1) protecting, preserving, and facilitating an improvement or (2) financing an improvement or (3) bringing about such developments of property along or in the vicinity of an improvement or (4) any combination of such purposes, to require by condemnation property in excess of that needed for the actual improvement and to sell or lease such excess property with or without imposing building and use restrictions and conditions.
(B.) 
To provide for the payment of all or any part of the costs of public improvements by the levying and collecting of special assessments upon properties specially benefitted, in accordance with authorizations provided by the State laws and such amendments as may be made thereto.
The method and procedure for determine [determining] the amount to be assessed, the spread and apportionment of the amount to be assessed, and the boundary and location of the property, lots[,] district or area to be assessed for making and approval of the plans and specifications, for the notices to property owners and other interested parties, for the hearings, for the composition[,] organization and procedure of revision or appraisal for the levy of the assessment and for any and all determinations, steps, measures, resolutions, ordinances, and actions in relation to the assessment shall be governed by either (1) the provisions of the special assessment statutes of Texas, or (2) the provisions of a general ordinance may be enacted by the City Commission and shall be subject to amendment or repeal. Relative to (1) above, it is the intent and purpose hereof to write into and make a part of the Charter of the City the powers, terms, and provisions contained in governing laws (Chapter 17, Title 28, Revised Civil Statutes and amendments), are expressly adopted and made a part of this Charter.
As exclusive of the powers described in this Article and the Municipal powers, stated or implied elsewhere in this Charter and wholly alternative to these powers, the City shall have the power, by ordinance, to adopt all and singular the rights, powers, and provisions of the governing laws (Chapter 9, Title 28, Revised Civil Statutes and amendments), are expressly adopted and made a part of this Charter.
In addition, or as alternatives, to all other powers on the subject conferred by this Charter or existing by law, the City shall have and may exercise all the powers enumerated in governing laws, relating to the acquisition of property, with existing amendments as hereinafter may be made, are expressly adopted and made a part of this Charter.
As exclusive of the powers described in this Article and the municipal powers stated or implied elsewhere in this Charter and wholly alternative to these powers, the City shall have the power, by ordinance, to adopt all and singular the rights, powers and provisions contained in the governing laws, relating to General Health Control (Title 71, Chapter 1, Revised Civil Statutes and its amendments), is expressly adopted and made a part of this Charter.
The City as prescribed by law shall have the power, by ordinance, to require any person to pay for any City government and proprietary services and/or goods which have been provided for such person, provided in [the] same would be required of any other similar person. If such person fails or refuses to pay for such services and/or goods, within ten (10) days after final notice, as prescribed by ordinance, in writing, or by letter addressed to such owner at his post office address, or by publication as many as two (2) times within ten (10) consecutive days, if personal services may not be had as fore said, or person’s address be now [not] known, the City shall have the power to cause the expense for such services and/or goods to be assessed on the real estate, or lot or lots owned by such person. On filing with the county clerk of the County of Hidalgo a statement by the City Manager of the City of such expenses, the City shall have a privileged lien thereon, second only to tax liens, liens for street improvements, and liens for other items as prescribed elsewhere in this Charter, to secure such expenses so incurred and ten (10%) per centum interest on the amount from the date of such payment. For any such expenditures, and interest, as fore said, suit may be instituted and foreclosure had in the name of the corporation; and the statements so made, as fore said, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie proof of the amount expended for such services and/or goods.
Whenever in the opinion of the City Commission any building, fence, shed, or structure of any kind or any part thereof is liable to fall down and injure or endanger persons or property, the City Commission may order the owner or agent of the same, or occupant of the same, or any owner of the premises upon which such building, shed, awning, or other structure stands or to which it is attached, to take down and remove the same or any part thereof within such time as it may direct and may punish by fine all persons failing to do so. The City Commission shall have the additional power to remove the same at the expense of the City put on the account of the owner of the property and access the expenses thereof, including the expense of condemnation proceedings, if any, as a special tax against the land and the same may be collected as other special taxes provided or [for] in this Charter or as provided by ordinance, or by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.