(1) 
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 or subject to any execution of any kind or nature. No lien of any kind or character can be created, and none shall ever exist or be established, on or against the public buildings, property, public halls, parks, public works or any other asset of the City. 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, 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 owing to any person. Neither the City nor any of its officers or agents shall be required to answer any such writ of garnishment on any account whatsoever.
(2) 
The City shall not be obligated to recognize any assignment of wages or funds by its employees, agents or contractors, except as provided by the laws of this State or the United States of America.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
It shall not be necessary in any action, suit or proceeding in which the City is a party for any bond, undertaking or security to be demanded or executed by or on behalf of the City. All such actions shall be conducted in the same manner as if such bond, undertaking or security had been given as required by law.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
The City shall not be held liable on account of any claim for the death of any person or injuries to any person or damage to any property, unless the person making such complaint or claiming such damages shall, within ninety (90) days after the time at which it is claimed such damages were inflicted upon such person or property, file with the City a written statement, under oath, stating the nature and character of such damages or injuries, the extent of the same, the place where same happened, the circumstances under which same happened and the condition causing same, with a detailed statement of each item of damages and the amount thereof, giving a list of any witnesses known.
No provision of this section shall ever be so construed as to expand the ordinary liability of the City; and provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to mean that the City, 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 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
The City Council shall have the power to compromise and settle any and all claims and lawsuits of every kind and character, in favor of, or against, the City, including suits by the City to recover delinquent taxes.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
This Charter shall be deemed a public act, may be read in evidence without pleading or proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
All rights, claims, actions, orders, contracts and legal or administrative proceedings shall continue except as modified pursuant to the provisions of this Charter and in each case shall be maintained, carried on or dealt with by the City department, office or agency appropriate under this Charter.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
No property of any kind, by whomsoever owned or held or by whatsoever institution, agency, political subdivision or organization, owned or held, whether in trust or by nonprofit organization, or corporation, or by foundation, or otherwise, (except property of the City), shall be exempt in any way from any of the special taxes, charges, levies and assessments, authorized or permitted by this Charter, for local improvements, for the public welfare, except as allowed by law and expressly authorized by the City Council.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
In addition to any provisions contained herein, the City Council may require any City official, department director, or City employee, before entering upon his or her duties, to execute a good and sufficient bond with a surety company doing business in the State of Texas and approved by the City Council. The premium of such bond shall be paid by the City.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
In case of disaster when a legal quorum of the City Council cannot otherwise be assembled in person, electronically, or by other means due to multiple deaths or injuries, the surviving persons of the City Council, or highest surviving City official, if no elected official remains, must, within twenty-four (24) to seventy-two (72) hours of such disaster, request the highest surviving officers of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trustees of the local school district, and the County Judge of Denton County to appoint a commission of at least three (3) and no more than five (5) people to act during the emergency and call a City election within fifteen (15) days of such disaster, or as provided in the Texas Election Code, for election of a required quorum, if for good reasons it is known a quorum of the present City Council will never again meet.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
All meetings of the Council, and any other Board or Commission shall be governed by provisions of Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code and any amendments thereto, with regard to the posting of agenda and the holding of public meetings. All public records of every office, department or agency of the City shall be open to inspection by any person at all reasonable business hours, provided that records excepted from public disclosure by Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code and any amendment thereto shall be closed to the public and not considered public records for the purpose of this section.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
The Council shall, by appropriate ordinance, provide for the indemnification and defense of the officers and employees of the City, including members of the Council, or any board, commission or committee, including volunteers, against any loss, cost or expense, including court costs and attorney's fees, to the extent allowed by law, arising out of any court claim, suit, or judgment or settlement thereof, resulting from any alleged negligent act or omission of such officer, employee, member or volunteer during the discharge of his duties and within the scope of his office, employment, membership or assigned voluntary position with the City, or in any other case where the City is directed or authorized by law to do so, provided however, that such indemnification will not be provided for any act arising out of the intentional or knowing violation of any penal statute or ordinance or arising out of any conduct determined by final judgment to be an act of fraud or to have been taken with the intent to deceive or defraud, or for any personal or private business of such officer, employee, member or volunteer, or for the gross negligence or official misconduct, or willful act of such officer, employee, member or volunteer.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)
This Charter shall not be construed as a mere grant of enumerated powers but shall be construed as a general grant of power, and not as a limitation of power on the government of the City. Except where expressly prohibited by this Charter, each and every power under the Constitution of Texas, which it would be competent for the people of the City to grant expressly to the City, shall be construed to be granted to the City by this Charter.
(Ordinance 767-22 adopted 11/16/2022)