The inhabitants of the City of Alamo in Hidalgo County, Texas, residing within its territorial limits, as these limits are now established, or are hereafter established in the manner provided by this Charter, shall continue to be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the "City of Alamo", hereinafter referred to as the "City", and under that name shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property within or without its boundaries for any Municipal purpose, in fee simple or lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation and may sell, lease, hold, manage, and control such property as its interest may require, may cooperate with the Federal government or any agency of the government of the State of Texas, or any political subdivision of the State of Texas, to accomplish any lawful purpose for the advancement of the interest, welfare, health, morals, conduct, comfort, safety and convenience of the City and its inhabitants; and may pass such ordinances as may be expedient for maintaining and promoting the peace and government and welfare of the City and for the performance of the functions thereof; and, except as prohibited by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas or restricted by this Charter, the City shall have and may exercise all Municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every nature whatsoever.
The enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but, in addition to the powers enumerated therein or implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise of such powers, it is intended that the City of Alamo shall have, and may exercise, all powers of local self government, and all powers enumerated in Chapter 13, Title 28, Article 1175 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, of 1925, and amendments thereto and hereafter enacted, or any other powers which, under the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, it would be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate. All powers of the City, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this Charter, or if not prescribed therein, then in the manner provided by ordinance or resolution of the Board of Commissioners.
The 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. The funds belonging to the City, in the hands of any person, firm or corporation shall not be liable to garnishment; 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 belonging 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. The City shall not be obligated to recognize any assignment of wages or funds by its employees, or agents or contractors.
The Board of Commissioners shall have the power by ordinance to fix the boundary limits of the City and to provide for the alteration and extension of said boundary limits, the annexation of additional territory lying adjacent to the City, and the detachment or disannexation of territory, with or without the consent of the owners and inhabitants of the territory annexed, detached, or disannexed, in any manner not inconsistent with the procedural rules prescribed by Chapter 160, page 447, Article 1, Acts of the 58th Legislature of the State of Texas, Regular Session, 1963, as heretofore or hereafter amended, the same being the Municipal Annexation Act. Upon the passage of any ordinance annexing territory, the corporate limits of the City shall thereafter include the territory so annexed; and when any additional territory has been so annexed, the same shall be a part of the City of Alamo and the property situated therein shall bear its pro rata part of the taxes levied by the City, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all of the rights and privileges of all citizens and shall be bound by the acts and ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the City. Upon the final passage of any ordinance detaching or disannexing territory from the City, the corporate limits of the City shall be reduced by the territory so detached or disannexed.
Whenever a majority of the qualified voters who are citizens of the State of Texas and inhabitants of any territory adjoining the City of Alamo, as said territory may be designated by the Board of Commissioners, or in case there are no qualified voters in said territory, then when persons owning a majority of land in area in said territory desires the annexation of such territory to the City of Alamo, they may present a written petition to that effect to the Board of Commissioners and shall attach to said petition the affidavit of one or more of their number to the effect that said petition is signed by a majority of such qualified voters, or in case there are no qualified voters, said affidavit shall be to the effect that there are no qualified voters in said territory and that the person signing said petition own a majority of the land in area in said territory; and thereupon the Board of Commissioners at regular session held not sooner than twenty (20) days after the presentation of said petition may by ordinance annex such territory to the City of Alamo and thenceforth the said territory shall be a part of the City of Alamo, and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all of the rights and privileges of other citizens and shall be bound by the acts, ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of said City.