The municipal government provided by this charter shall be known as the “council-manager government.” Pursuant to its provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the state constitution, the statutes of this state and by this charter, all powers of the city shall be vested in an elective council, hereinafter referred to as the “city council,” which shall enact local legislation, adopt budgets, determine policies and appoint the city manager, who in turn shall execute the laws and administer the government of the city. All powers of the city shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter, or if the manner be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance, the state constitution or the statutes of the state.
The boundaries of the City of Liberty shall be the same as have been heretofore established and now exist and those boundaries established and changed hereafter in all annexation ordinances and proceedings of the City of Liberty, Texas, filed in the Office of the City Secretary of Liberty, Texas.
(Ordinance 2018-12, prop. A, adopted 5/8/18)
The boundaries of the city may be altered by extension or contraction through annexation or disannexation of territory by one or more of the following methods:
a. 
Annexation.
The city council shall have the power to annex territory to the city in any manner and by any procedure that may now or hereafter be provided by Texas state law.
b. 
Disannexation of territory.
Territory in the city may be detached from the corporate limits pursuant only to Texas state law and city charter. However, any detached territory shall remain liable for its prorated share of indebtedness incurred while such territory was a part of the city, and the city shall continue to levy and collect taxes within the territory until such indebtedness is discharged.
Municipal services shall be extended to annexed territory in accordance with Texas state law and city ordinances.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99; Ordinance 1001, sec. 1, adopted 6/13/06; Ordinance 2010-15 adopted 6/8/10; Ordinance 2020-35, prop. A, adopted 11/10/20)
(a) 
Whenever there exists within the corporate limits of the City of Liberty any territory not suitable or necessary for city purposes, the city council may, upon a petition signed by a majority of the qualified voters residing in such territory if the same be inhabited, or without any such petition if the same be uninhabited, 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 from and after the entry of such ordinance said territory shall cease to be a part of said city, but said territory shall still be liable for its pro rata share of any debts incurred while said area was a part of said city, and the city shall continue to levy, assess and collect taxes on the property within said territory to pay the indebtedness incurred while said area was a part of the city as though the same had not been excluded from the boundaries of the city.
(b) 
The city council shall disannex an annexed area when it determines the substantive and procedural requirements of Section 43, Subchapter G of V.T.C.A., Local Government Code are fulfilled.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)