This Charter provides a City Council-Manager form of government. All powers of the City will be vested in an elected City Council, hereafter known as the Council, subject to the limitations of state and federal law.
The Council shall enact legislation, adopt budgets, determine City policies and appoint a City Manager. The City Manager will be responsible to the Council for the administration of the City government.
All powers of the City shall be exercised through the Council in accordance with this charter, city ordinances, and state laws.
The boundaries of the City are those established by the original incorporation of the City of Lakeway, Texas, as well as those modifications recorded by subsequent annexation or disannexation proceedings.
The Council has the power to modify the boundaries of the City by ordinance as provided for in state law.
(Amnd. by Ordinance 2020-07-20-01, at an election held on November 3, 2020, prop. A)
Whenever there exists within the corporate limits of the City of Lakeway any territory lying adjacent to the corporate limits which is not suitable or necessary for City purposes, the City Council may, upon a nonbinding petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters residing in such territory or without any such petition by ordinance duly passed, 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 plat 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 after the entry of such ordinance said territory and the inhabitants therefore shall cease to be a part of said City. At least thirty days prior to the City Council’s consideration of any ordinance which would discontinue a territory as a part of said City, the Mayor shall have published an announcement that said territory has been determined to be not suitable or necessary for City purposes and shall include in such announcement the basis and reasons for such determination.