The borough shall be a municipal corporation known as the "City and Borough of Wrangell." Whenever it deems it in the public interest to do so, the borough may use the name Wrangell Borough or Wrangell Home Rule Borough.
The City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska shall assume, succeed to and possess all the property, rights, duties, assets, privileges, franchises, liabilities, and powers and immunities of the City of Wrangell, Alaska.
The boundaries of the borough as they exist at the time this charter goes into effect, shall remain the boundaries of the borough until they are changed in a manner authorized or permitted by the state constitution and/or law. At the time this charter goes into effect, the boundaries of the City and Borough of Wrangell are as follows:
The City and Borough of Wrangell boundaries are coterminous with the Wrangell Ranger District boundaries established by the United States Forest Service, as depicted in the Tongass National Forest Secondary Base Map Series on Sheet Nos. 18 (1982), 19 (1982), 21 (1980), 22 (1980), 23 (1983), 24 (1983), 26 (1980), and 27 (1980), except that
1) the northern boundary of the City and Borough of Wrangell shall commence from a point beginning at the western boundary of the Wrangell District at a point designated as 56° 43' 17" North, 132° 34' 21" West (NAD 27), thence proceeding in a generally southeasterly direction to the westernmost point of land in Section 31, Township 59 South, Range 82 East, thence proceeding in a generally northeasterly direction along the watershed divide between LeConte Bay and the Stikine River including Wilkes Peak, to the international boundary between Canada and the United States; and further excepting that
2) the southern boundary of the City and Borough of Wrangell shall, at a point designated as 55° 53' 46" North, 131° 57' 51" West (NAD 27), located in Section 8, Township 69 South, Range 88 East, proceed in a generally southwesterly direction along the north-south drainage boundary, coterminous with the northern boundaries of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough (as described in the "Certificate of Boundaries – Ketchikan Gateway Borough" issued by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, on May 30, 2008) for approximately 35 miles, intersecting Clarence Strait at a point designated as 55° 38' 5" North, 132° 11' 50" West (NAD 27), located in Section 10, Township 72 South, Range 86 East;
thence proceeding in a generally northwesterly direction into and up Clarence Strait to the point of intersection with the Wrangell Ranger District boundaries, the point of beginning. All with reference to the Copper River Meridian.
The City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska, shall have all the powers, functions, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities of every name and nature whatever, which a home-rule borough may have under the constitution and laws of the State of Alaska. The borough may exercise all powers not prohibited by law or by this charter.
The powers of the borough shall be liberally construed. The enumeration or mention of particular powers by this charter shall not be deemed to be exclusive or limiting.
A. 
When used in this charter, the singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular, and the masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
B. 
When the word "borough" is used in this charter, it shall mean the City and Borough of Wrangell, Alaska, unless the context clearly indicates another meaning.
C. 
When the word "person" is used in this charter, it shall mean an association, firm and corporation as well as an individual, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
D. 
When the word "publish," "published" or "publication" is used in this charter, it shall mean publish, published or publication in a newspaper of general circulation within the borough at least one time; provided that the assembly by resolution may find and declare that the publication of any particular ordinance, notice or document in such a newspaper is very impracticable or impossible under the circumstances then existing, and provide instead that the ordinance, notice or document shall be published by posting a copy in each of at least five conspicuous public places in the borough. In all such cases of publication by posting, the borough clerk shall provide any person a copy of the ordinance, notice or document posted, on request, without charge, at any time within two months after the posting.