The City shall have the power and authority to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, devise, deed, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, any character of property, within or without its municipal boundaries, including any charitable or trust funds.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957)
All real estate owned in fee simple title, or held by lease, sufferance, easement or otherwise; all public buildings, fire stations, parks, streets and alleys, and all property, whether real or personal, of whatever kind, character or description, now owned or controlled by the City, shall vest in, inure to, remain, and be the property of said City under this Charter; and all causes of action, choses in action, rights or privileges of every kind and character, and all property of whatsoever character or description which may have been held, and is now held, controlled or used by said City for public uses, or in trust for the public, shall vest in and remain and inure to the City under this Charter, and all contracts, suits and pending actions to which the City heretofore was or now is a party, plaintiff or defendant, shall in no wise be affected or terminated by the adoption of this Charter, but shall continue unabated.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957)
The City shall have exclusive control of all City parks and playgrounds, whether within or without the City Limits, and shall control, regulate and remove all obstructions and prevent all encroachments thereupon; provide for raising, grading, filling, terracing, landscape gardening, erecting buildings, swimming pools and wading pools, and other structures, drilling wells, providing recreation therein, establishing walks and paving driveways around, in and through said parks, playgrounds, and other public grounds, speedways or boulevards owned by it, and lying both outside and inside the municipal boundaries.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957)
The City shall have exclusive control of all alleys, streets, gutters and sidewalks situated within the City and the power to lay out, establish, open, alter, extend, widen, straighten, abandon and close, lower, grade, narrow, care for, supervise, maintain and improve any public street, alley, avenue, boulevard, or expressway, and for such purposes to acquire the necessary lands and to appropriate the same under the power of eminent domain. The City shall also have the power to name or rename, vacate and abandon and sell and convey in fee that portion of any street, alley, avenue, boulevard or other public thoroughfare or public grounds, and to convey in fee the same in exchange for other lands, over which any street alley, avenue or boulevard may be laid out, established and opened; and the City's right to sell and dispose of in fee any part of a street, alley, avenue or boulevard so vacated and abandoned, or the City's right to convey same in exchange for other lands to be used in laying out, opening, widening and straightening any street, shall never be questioned in any of the Courts of this State. The procedure for closing streets and alleys shall be in conformity with due process of law and shall be particularly prescribed and provided for by ordinance passed in the usual manner by the City Council.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957)
In accordance with the Texas Transportation Code, the City shall have the exclusive power to improve any street or highway within its limits by filling, grading, raising, paving, or repaving the same in a permanent manner, or by the construction or reconstruction of sidewalks, curbs and gutters or necessary appurtenances thereto, including sewers and drains.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)
The City Council shall have all the authority given cities by the provisions of the Texas Transportation Code and the Penal Code of Texas, and the power by ordinance to control the operations of all character of vehicles using public streets, including motorcycles, motor scooters, bicycles, automobiles, taxicabs, trucks, trailers, tractors, buses, house moving dollies, or like vehicles; and to prescribe speed limits of the same, the parking of the same, the qualifications of the operators of the same[,] the routing of the same, and the lighting of same by night; and to provide for the giving of bond or other security for the operation of same.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)
The City Council shall have full power and authority to zone the City and to pass all necessary ordinances, rules, and regulations governing the same under and by virtue of the authority given to cities and legislative bodies thereof under Chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)
The City Council will have the authority to adopt, amend, modify, or rewrite the Zoning Ordinance in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)
The City Council shall pass appropriate ordinances establishing a Planning and Zoning Commission, which commission shall have the powers and authorities as set forth in Chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code as amended, and such additional powers and privileges as given by this Charter and as may be given to it by the City Council. Such ordinances shall provide for rules and regulations governing the Planning and Zoning Commission.
The Mayor from time to time shall appoint seven persons to serve on the Planning and Zoning Commission which appointments shall be subject to the approval of the City Council. The persons so appointed shall serve for two years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Said persons serving on the Commission may receive compensation not to exceed $50.00 a day. Three persons shall be appointed to serve as alternate members in the absence of one or more of the seven regularly appointed persons.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 855 adopted 3/30/1992, prop. 6, approved at election of 5/2/1992; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)
The City Council shall establish by ordinance a Board of Adjustment which shall have all of the powers and privileges set forth in Chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code, and such additional powers and privileges as may be assigned to it by state law.
The members of the Board of Adjustment shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to the approval of the City Council.
(Charter adopted 12/2/1957; Ordinance 1415 adopted 2/13/2017, prop. 1, approved at election of 5/6/2017)