Unless otherwise provided by the Constitution or general laws of the state, the City Council shall have the power, by ordinance, to do the following:
(a) To provide for the levying, assessment and collection of such taxes as the council may determine;
(b) To provide for the prompt collection of all taxes assessed, levied and imposed under this Charter;
(c) To sell or cause to be sold real as well as personal or mixed property upon which taxes are delinquent and unpaid;
(d) To regulate the manner of making out tax lists or inventories and appraisements of property therein and to prescribe the oath that shall be administered on such rendition of property;
(e) To prescribe how and when property shall be rendered;
(f) To prescribe the number and form of assessment rolls;
(g) To fix the powers and duties of the tax assessor and collector;
(h) To prescribe the date the taxes must be paid and to prescribe the amount of penalty, interest, attorney’s fees and costs which are owed on delinquent taxes;
(i) To adopt such other measures as the council deems advisable to secure the assessment of all property within the corporate limits of the City, and to collect the taxes thereon; and
(j) To have and exercise all other powers and authority now conferred or that may hereafter be conferred upon cities by the general laws of the State of Texas.
(Ord. 10272, § I(VI), 3-16-1989, approved 5-6-1989)