Section
1 [Body politic and corporate; powers enumerated]
2 [Enumeration of powers not exclusive; powers under home rule amendment]
3 [Authority to establish and maintain airport]
4 [Powers as to building lines-Generally]
5 [Same-Additional powers]
6 [Exercise of powers conferred upon cities of over five thousand inhabitants and powers conferred by home rule, Constitution and state law]
7 [Authority to acquire, maintain, operate public utility systems]
The inhabitants of the City of Fort Worth, as its limits now are, or may hereafter be, shall be a body politic and corporate by name the City of Fort Worth, and as such shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property in fee simple or lesser interest or estate by purchase, gift, devise, appropriation, condemnation, lease or lease with privilege of purchase, for any municipal purpose; may sell, lease, hold, manage, encumber and control such property, and make any and all rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution which may be required to carry out fully all the provisions of any conveyance, deed or will in relation to any gift or bequest, or the provisions of any lease by which it may acquire property; may acquire, construct, own, lease and operate and regulate public utilities, may assess, levy and collect taxes for general and special purpose on all the subjects or objects which the city may lawfully tax; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the city by the issue or sale of bonds or notes of the city; may appropriate the money of the city for all lawful purposes; may create, provide for, construct, regulate and maintain all things of the nature of public works and improvements; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements; may license and regulate persons, corporations and associations engaged in any business, occupation, profession or trade; may define, prohibit, abate, suppress and prevent all things detrimental to the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the city, and all nuisances and causes thereof; may regulate the construction, height and the material used in all buildings, and the maintenance and occupancy thereof; may regulate and control the use, for whatever purposes, of the streets and other public places; may create, establish, abolish and organize officers and fix the salaries and compensations of all officers and employees; may make and enforce local police, health, sanitary and other regulations; and may pass such ordinances as may be expedient for maintaining and promoting the peace, good government and welfare of the city, and for the performance of the functions thereof. The city shall have all powers that now are, or hereafter may be granted to municipalities by the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas, and all such powers, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed by this Charter, or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance or resolution of the council.
The enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not be held or deemed to be exclusive, but in addition to the powers enumerated herein, implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the city shall have and may exercise all other powers which, under the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, it would be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate. The City of Fort Worth shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon cities by what is known as the Home Rule Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas and the Enabling Act relative thereto passed by the thirty-third legislature of the State of Texas, found in the published laws of said legislature, Regular Session, pages 307 to 317, and effective July 7th, 1913, and all other laws passed by the legislature of the State of Texas relating thereto, or which may hereafter be passed by said legislature in relation to such matters.
That power is hereby conferred on the City of Fort Worth to acquire or own by lease, purchase, donation, bequest, eminent domain or otherwise all property within or without the limits of the City of Fort Worth, that may be necessary for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating an airport and landing field and to fully provide for the accommodation of planes transporting United States mail and other aerial machines and to make suitable charges therefor. That the ownership, maintenance and operation by the City of Fort Worth of such an airport shall be deemed a municipal purpose and the city shall pass appropriate ordinances providing for the fees to be collected and other charges to be made in the operation of such field and port.
That all of the powers granted by Chapter 276 of the General and Special Laws of the Fortieth Legislature, known as Senate Bill No. 271 on page 415, relating to the establishment of building lines in cities and providing for an assessment therefor, be adopted and made a part of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth.
That in addition to the powers provided by the above and foregoing section, the City of Fort Worth shall have the further power for the purpose of promoting the public health[,] safety, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, acting through its governing authorities, under the police power, to provide by suitable ordinance building lines on any street or any block of any street and to require their observance by suitable penalties.
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