Editor’s note–Printed herein is the charter of the City of Monahans, Texas, previously published as Part I of the 1972 Code of Ordinances. The charter was adopted on October 30, 1954. Amendments to the charter are indicated by a history note following the amended section. The absence of a history note indicates the material is unchanged from the original charter. Apart from minor nonsubstantive changes in style and formatting, the charter is reproduced as published in the 1972 Code. Capitalization, punctuation and grammar have been retained. Obviously misspelled words have been corrected without notation. Material enclosed in brackets has been added for clarification. The editor’s note to the charter in the 1972 Code provided as follows: “The article titles and the section captions have been altered or expanded slightly to more fully apprise the user of the contents; section captions have been added where they had been omitted. For facility of reference the section numbers have been prefixed with the article number and a decimal.”
PREAMBLE
The people of the City of Monahans, Ward County, Texas, a City of more than five thousand inhabitants, incorporated under the general municipal incorporation laws of this State, under powers conferred by the Constitution and laws of Texas, in order to obtain more fully the benefits of local self-government, encourage better methods in the transaction of municipal business, enlarge the powers of municipal government, and otherwise promote the common welfare, do adopt the following Charter, to wit: