Section 2. General powers.
(a) The City Council shall have power to enact and to enforce all
ordinances necessary to protect life, health and property; to
prevent and summarily abate and remove nuisances; to preserve
and promote good government, order, security, amusement,
peace, quiet, education, prosperity and the general welfare of said
City and its inhabitants; to exercise all the municipal powers
necessary to the complete and efficient management and control
of the municipal property and affairs of said city to effect the
efficient administration of the municipal government of said city;
to exercise such powers as conduce to the public welfare,
happiness and prosperity of said city and its inhabitants; and to
enact and enforce any and all ordinances upon any subject;
provided, that no ordinance shall be enacted inconsistent with the
provisions of this charter; and, provided further, that the
specification of particular powers shall never be construed as a
limitation upon the general powers herein granted; it being
intended by this charter to grant to and bestow upon the
inhabitants of the City of Houston and the City of Houston full
power of local self government, and it shall have and exercise all
powers of municipal government not prohibited to it by its
charter, or by the provisions of the Constitution of the State of
Texas.
(b) The City shall have all powers that are or hereafter may be
granted to municipalities by the Constitution or laws 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.
In addition to all the powers enumerated in this charter, implied
thereby or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the City shall have
and may exercise in the manner hereinbefore provided, all other
powers which, under the Constitution and laws of this State, it
would have been competent for this charter specifically to
enumerate. (Act of 1905; amended October 15, 1913)
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