The public records of the city shall be available to the public subject to the procedures and exceptions of the Texas Open Records Act. The city council may provide, by ordinance, regulations and procedures for the implementation and enforcement of said Act.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
Any officer of the city shall fully comply with Texas state law regarding his or her personal interest in city contracts.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99; Ordinance 945, sec. 1, adopted 12/10/02; Ordinance 2020-35, prop. LL, adopted 11/10/20)
The city council may, by ordinance, prohibit the drilling of water wells for commercial, industrial and agricultural purposes, and may provide regulations for the drilling and use of water wells for commercial, industrial, agricultural and domestic purposes.
(Ordinance 2020-35, prop. MM, adopted 11/10/20)
All officers and employees of the city shall be subject to and shall comply with the provisions of general law regarding nepotism, including, but not limited to, Chapter 573 of the Texas Government Code. All members of the city council shall be subject to and shall comply with such laws when the authority to appoint, employ or name a person any office, position or other service is granted to the city council in this charter.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
The city council shall have the authority to establish and maintain a free public library within the city and to cooperate with any person, firm, association or corporation under such terms as the city council may prescribe for the establishment of such free public library. For budget purposes, the library shall be considered as a department of the city and the appropriations therefor shall comply with all the budgetary requirements as outlined in this charter, and as may be prescribed from time to time by the city council.
The 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. The 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 on account of any debt it may owe or funds or property it may have on hand or owing to any person. Neither the city nor any of its officers or agents shall be required to answer any such writ or garnishment on any account whatever. The city shall not be obligated to recognize any assignment of wages or funds by its employees, agents, or contractors.
It shall not be necessary in any action, suit or proceeding in which the City of Liberty is a party, for any bond, undertaking, or security to be demanded or executed by or on behalf of said city in any of the state courts, but in all such actions, suits, appeals, or proceedings same shall be conducted in the same manner as if such bond, undertaking or security had been given as required by law.
Before the city shall be liable to any person or persons from damages, loss or destruction of property, or from damages arising out of the death of or injury to any person or persons, the city shall be given notice by or on behalf of each claimant for such damage, loss or destruction. Such notice shall be given in the form and content and within the time limitations, prescribed by the Texas Tort Claims Act. The city council may provide by ordinance, regulations and procedures for the implementation and enforcement of said Act. Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to mean that the City of Liberty waives any rights, privileges, defenses or immunities in tort actions which are provided under the common law, the constitution and general laws of the State of Texas.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
The charter shall be liberally construed to carry out its intents and purposes. If any section or part of section of this charter shall be held 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 of section to which such holding shall directly apply. Except to the extent that this charter expressly limits a power granted to the city, all such powers shall be construed to permit the exercise of such power to the fullest extent permitted by the laws and constitution of the State of Texas. This charter shall be construed in the manner prescribed for statutes and codes contained in the Texas Code Construction Act.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
All ordinances, resolutions, rules, and regulations now in force under the city government of Liberty and not in conflict with the provisions of this charter, shall remain in force under this charter until altered, amended or repealed by the council after this charter takes effect; and all rights of the City of Liberty under existing franchises and contracts are preserved in full force and effect to the City of Liberty.
The constitution of the State of Texas, the statutes of said state applicable to home-rule municipal corporations, as now or hereafter enacted, this charter and ordinances enacted pursuant hereto shall, in the order mentioned, be applicable to the City of Liberty, but the city shall also have the power to exercise any and all powers conferred by the laws of the State of Texas upon any other kind of city, town or village, not contrary to the provisions of said home-rule statutes, charter and ordinances but the exercise of any such powers by the City of Liberty shall be optional with it, and it shall not be required to conform to the law governing any other cities, towns or villages unless and until by ordinance it adopts same.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
This charter may be amended by any method permitted by general state law regarding the amendment of charter of home rule municipalities, including, but not limited to V.T.C.A., Local Government Code section 9.001 et seq. The city council may provide by ordinance, regulations and procedures for the implementation and enforcement of said sections.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
(a) 
The city council shall appoint, at its first regular meeting in January of each tenth year, beginning in the year 2030, a charter review commission of five (5) citizens of the City of Liberty. However, the City Council shall have the right to appoint and convene a special charter review commission at any time if they so choose. Said individuals may only serve for two (2) consecutive terms on the charter review commission. Individuals may serve more than (2) two terms if said terms are non-consecutive.
(b) 
Action by city council.
The city council shall receive and have published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Liberty any report presented by the charter review commission, shall consider any recommendations made, and if any amendment or amendments be presented as a part of such report, may order such amendment or amendments to be submitted to the voters of the city in the manner provided by Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 9, as now or hereafter amended.
(c) 
Term of office.
The term of office of such charter review commission shall be six (6) months, and if during such term no report is presented to the city council, then all records of the proceedings of such commission shall be filed with the person performing the duties of the city secretary and shall become public record. Upon the written request of a majority of charter review commission members, the city council may extend the commission’s term of office for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99; Ordinance 1001, sec. 1, adopted 6/13/06; Ordinance 2018-12, prop. G, adopted 5/8/18; Ordinance 2020-35, prop. NN, adopted 11/10/20)
The charter commission in preparing this charter finds and decides that it is impracticable to segregate each subject so as to permit a vote of “yes or no” on the same, for the reason that the charter is so constructed that in order to enable it to work and function, it is necessary that it should be adopted in its entirety. For these reasons, the charter commission directs that the said charter be voted upon as a whole and that it shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Liberty at an election to be held for that purpose on the sixth day of May, A.D. 1958. Not less than thirty (30) days prior to such election, the city council shall cause the city secretary to mail a copy of this charter to each qualified voter of the City of Liberty as appears from the latest city tax collector’s roll. Within five (5) days after such election, the city council shall canvass the votes and, if the charter is adopted by a majority of the qualified voters in said election, the city council shall enter upon the records of the city an official order declaring the charter adopted and this charter shall take effect immediately, and the city secretary shall file an official copy of the charter with the records of the city. The city secretary shall furnish the mayor a copy of said charter, which copy of the charter so adopted, authenticated and certified by his signature and the seal of the city, shall be forwarded by the mayor to the secretary of state of the State of Texas and shall show the approval of such charter by majority vote of the qualified voters voting at such election.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
(a) 
“City” shall mean City of Liberty when used in this charter unless otherwise apparent from the context.
(b) 
Qualified voter in the City of Liberty means a person:
1. 
Who is eighteen (18) years of age or older;
2. 
Who is a United States citizen:
3. 
Who has not been determined mentally incompetent by a final judgment of a court;
4. 
Who has not been finally convicted of a felony or, if so convicted, has;
(A) 
Fully discharged the person’s sentence, including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by any court; or
(B) 
Been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disability to vote;
5. 
Who is a resident of the City of Liberty for a period of no less than six (6) months; and
6. 
Whose voter registration is effective.
(c) 
“He, His, Him” shall include nouns or pronouns of the other gender.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99; Ordinance 1001, sec. 1, adopted 6/13/06)