Editor’s note–Printed herein is the charter of the City of Odessa, Texas, which was adopted at an election held on April 3, 1945. Apart from minor nonsubstantive changes in style and formatting, the charter is reproduced as it appeared in the 1957 Code of Ordinances. Capitalization, punctuation and grammar have been retained. Obviously misspelled words have been corrected without notation. Material enclosed in brackets has been added for clarification. As printed in the 1957 Code of Ordinances, the sections of the charter had been renumbered consecutively as sections 1 through 96. The original section number, as well as any amendments to a section, are indicated by the history note following the section.