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ORDINANCE NO. 122
AN ORDINANCE CALLING A SPECIAL ELECTION
TO BE HELD WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS,
TEXAS, ON THE THIRD DAY OF NOVEMBER,
A.D. 1964, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING
TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS RESIDING WITHIN
THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID CITY THE
PROPOSITION OF ADOPTION OR AGAINST THE
ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED HOME RULE CHARTER;
PROVIDING FOB THE PRINTING OF SAID PROPOSED
CHARTER AS SUBMITTED BY THE CHARTER COM-
MISSION OF SAID CITY TO THE CITY COUNCIL
OF SAID CITY; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THE
CITY CLERK AND/OR CITY SECRETARY OF SAID
CITY SHALL, UNDER THE SUPEJ.iVISION OF
THE MAYOR OF SAID CITY, MAIL OR CAUSE
TO BE MAILED A COpy OF SAID PROPOSED
CHARTER TO EACH QUALIFIED VOTER IN SAID
CITY AS APPEAHS FROM THE TAX COLLEC'rOR' S
ROLLS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, A.D.
1964; ESTABLISHING AND ûESIGNATING
POLLING PLACES; NAMING AND DESIGNATING
THE ELECTION OFFICERS AND/OR OFFICIALS
CHOSEN TO HOLD AND CONDUCT SAID ELECTION;
PRESCRIBING THE HJUR SAID POLLS SHALL
BE AND REMAIN OPEN FOR THE CASTING OF
BALLOTS; PROVIDING FOR THE POSTING OF
NOTICE OF S~ID ELECTION BY THE CITY
SECRETARY OF SAID CITY; PRESCRIBING THE
FORM OF THE BALLOT TO BE USED; PROVIDING
FOR THE MAKING AND DELIVERING OF THE
RETURNS OF SAID ELECTION, AND FOR THE
DELIVERY OF THE STUBS OF BALLOTS USED
IN SAID ELECTION TO THE DISTRICT CLERK
OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS; FURTHER PROVIDING
FOR THE PRES~RVATION BY THE CPI'Y SECRETARY
OF OTHER BALLOT BOXES AND ELECTION RECORDS
AS PROVIDED BY LAW; PROVIDING FOR THE
CANVASSING BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID
CITY THAT SAID ELECTION SHALL BE HELD
AND CONDUCrED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS FOR THE HOLDING
OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS FOR
STATE AND COUWPY OFFICERS EXCEPT AS
OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY CHAPTER TWO, TITLE
28 OF THE RE'TISED CIVIL STATUTES OF THE
STATE OF TEXA3, AS AMENDED; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND' CONTAINING A SAVING
CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: That a spedial election be, and the same
is hereby, called by the City Council of the City of North
Richland Hills, Texas, to be held on the 3rd day of
November, A.D. 1964, within the corporate limits of the City
of North Richland Hills, Texas, for the purpose óf submitting
to the qualified voters residing within the corporate limits
of said City the proposition of adoption or against the
adoption of the proposed Home Rule Charter submitted by
the Charter Commission of said City to the City Council of
said City. Such proposition shall be submitted in the
following form:
"For the adoption of the proposed Home Rule Charter."
"Against the adoption of the proposed Home Rule
Charter."
SECTION2: That said proposed Home .I.1.ule Charter as
submitted be immediately printed, under the supervision
of the Mayor of said City; a sufficient number of copies
thereof shall be printed sothat one copy of said proposed
charter as submitted shall be mailed to each qualified voter
residing within the corporate limits of said City, as here-
inafter provided.
SECTION 3: That the City Clerk and/or City Secretspy
of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas, shall, under the
supervision of the Mayor of said City, mail or cause to be
mailed, postage prepaid, a copy of said proposed charter
to each qualified voter residing within the corporate limits
of s~id City as appears from the Tax Collector's Rolls for
the year ending January 31, A.D. 1964. That such copies
of said proposed charter shall be mailed as in this section
provided at least thirty ()O) days prior to the Jrd day of
November, ~~D. 1964.
SECTFON 4: That polling shall be accomplished at and
the following are hereby designated and established as polling
places within the corporate limits of said City:
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COUNTY VOTING PRECINCT
NUMBER AND NAME
41-Smithfield
72-Watauga
42- Haltom City
NAME AND'ADDRESS
OF POLLING PLACE
Smithfield Fire Hall,
Smithfield, Texas
North Hills, Highway 377,
Denton Road, Betw~en Dent
Dnl~ and Diamond Oaks Drive
l)l-Richland Hills
4700 Booth Calloway Road,
Between Booth Calloway and
Bedford Roads
140-North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Fire
Hall, Glenview Drive and
Morgan Circle
all within the corporate limits of the City of North Richland
Hills, Texas.
SECTION 5: The following persons are hereby appointed
to act as election officers:
E.A. Males
Presiding Judge
Mrs. Louise Stickney
Clerk
Mrs. J.E. Hewitt
Assistant Judge
Mrs. C.R. Creamer
Clerk
Mrs. Wilma Grelle
Clerk
Mrs. E.D. Baker
Clerk
Mrs. Marie Denney
Clerk
Mrs. B.A. May
Clerk
Mrs. Alice Nunley
Clerk
Mrs. Milton Rhine
Clerk
Mrs. Raymond Counts
Presiding Judge
Mrs. Charles Finchèr
Clerk
Mrs. Robert Farmer
Clerk
Mrs. W.E. Stickles
Clerk
Mrs. Bob Harding
Assistant Judge
Mrs. Harold L. Boening
Judge
Mrs. Marge E. Cornelius
Clerk
Mrs. Sally H. Spence
Clerk
Mrs. Glenn Cradit
Assistant Judge
Mrs. R.E. Cushman
Clerk
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and that the hereinabove named shall serve in said capacity
in connection with the holding of said election at the
polling place of the election precinct in which each of them
resDectively reside, and that all of said designated parties
shall be qualified voters residing in said election precincts.
SECTFON 6: That said City of North Richland Hills,
Texas, shall pay and expend out of the funds of said City
all expense incurred in connection with and for the holding
of said election as herein provided.
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SECTION 7: That said polls and p~lling places shall
be opened at 7:00 A.M. and remain open until 7:00 P.M. on
the date of said election, to-wit, November 3, 1964, during
which hours balloting shall be permitted by all qualified
voters who present themselves for said purpöse between said
hours. Absentee voting may be accomplished at the City Hall
by all qualified voters residing within the corporate limits
of said City upon application duly made and in accordance
with law, between October 26th .c.md October 30th, A.D. 1964,
during office hours, from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., such
absentee balloting to take plaqe at said City Hall located
and situated on the corner of ülenview Drive and Morgan
Circle in said City.
SECTIDNJ8: That the City Secretary of the City of North
Richland Hills, Texas, shall post a copy of this ordinancê
in at least five (5) public places within the corporate
limits of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas, after
which she shall certify as to the date and place of posting
each of said copies of this ordinance, and make oath thereto.
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SECTION 9: The ballot to be used in said electiòn shall
be prepared in the manner and form provided by the Election
Code of the State of Texas, as amended, and further pursuant
to the provisions of Title 28, Articles 1165 through 1182,
as amended, of said Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas.
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SECTION 10: All qualified voters within the meaning
and as prescribed by the Laws of the State of Texas who
have resided within the corporate limits of the City of
North Richland Hills, Texas, for six (6) months prior to
the date of said election called herein and in the State of
Texas for one (1) year prior thereto shall be eligible and
enti tled to vote at such election.
SECTTON:ll: Election officers above named shallœke
and deliver the returns of said election in triplicate, one
being retained by the Presiding Judge, one delivered to the
Mayor of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas, and one
to the City Secretary of said City. The ballot box containing
the signature stubs from ballots used in said election shall
be delivered to the District Clerk of Tarrant County, Texas,
and other ballot boxes and election records and supplies
shall be preserved by the City Secretary as provided by
law.
SECTI10N 12: The City Council shall meet not more than
ten (10) days after the date of said election for. the purpose
of canvassing the 'returns of said election.
SECTION 13: Said election shall be held and conducted
in accordance with the Laws of the State of Texas for the
holding of General and 3pecial Elections for the State and
County Officers, except as otherwise provided by Chapter
Two, Title 28, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas~ as amended.
SECTION 14: That this ordinance shall be and become
in full force and effect from and after the date of its
passage and adoption.
SECTION 15: If any work, sentence, clause, section
and/or provision hereof shall for any reason be held to
be unconstitutional or invalid, said holding shall not in
any manner affect the remaining portions hereof, but same
shall remain and be in full force and effect.
Passed and Adopted on this 1 day of October, A.D. 1964,
there being three Councilmen present, and three Councilmen
voting for the passage and adoption hereof, and 0 Councilmen
voting against the pass~ge and: adoption hereof.
Mayor Pro Temt Don Roberts
Mayor, City or North Richland
Hills, Texas
ATTEST:
Ida Rea~an
Ci ty Secretary!
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4UICft01l 1: !bat a ,"oia1 .I.otten be, and the _.
1s here'br,; ealled b, .-. Cltf CO'Wlol1ot the elt, of
NortbR1cblan4 H111!t.. '!'ea.., to 'beheld. 00. .tbe 3Jd cia,.
of NO'f'....... '.D. l~t .2.tI1111 the CÐ1'1)O:l8te 111111:;. ot
the C1t,ot Nøñb ftloblan<t. 11111h !'e.., tor tr. p~o8e
ot.uÞrd.tt1na to tb.eq,uallt1e4 yotel'8 ""141. wltb1n the
00J'PO.- 111d.t. ot..14 o.1t,. tbe propø.1t1oft of 840pt1o,
or ap1uttbe 840pt1",n of the pl"Opoaeð. Høae ~8 Cb8l'ter
auba1tte4 br tM Chart_ CGI81..1øn ot. d14 01tr tt'1 tbe
Cit,. Coune11 or ..14 C1t,. 8u.cb proJ)Oø1t10.n _.11 'be
øu.'bød.tte4 In'tbe toll_inS tØN*
ti'er" a4o,tlonøt the pJ:l'Opo.... JIøJIe Jul.
C'bane%". If
ItA.hlat the .a~pt1on of tbe propoe. IIDme
Ru1e Charter-. I't
8.,fION 2s fhat R14propoøed 1£0$8 ft»l. Cbarter
.. IJuattte4 be 1IIDIe41ate1f pl'tnte4, UDder.t;M .uperv1ø1on
'01 the .pr ot.1401t,.8 autt1e1ent m.uaberot oop1..,
tb....r .bal1. be print_ 80 t_tone "PI' or.14 proposed
cbal'teP ...ubDdtt.e4 ..,11 __ _tled to ..eb. ca.. I itled
yoterN8"d1ng within the eorporate Itmt. ot A1d. CitY'"
.a _"tutter p~.14"'.
"RftOH 3: bt the 01t, Cl.rk .Qd./$~ alt,
..0""1'1' of the C1t, ot Korth J.1oMa_ 1111_. THaa#
.b811a~r the .çerv1s.1øÞ. ot ~_þr ot..1.d 01t"
_11 or c.ua. to be .11ed., peatap pNpa14,. .. eop, ot
..1d pþpoøed cba~r to _abet.l1tted. V'oterN.141na
.ltkln tM CQI'pONte- 111d.t. o·f ..14 0it, .~. _"."fl'_
tbe ..collect. 01"" blla toP the ,..rGnct:l l.n_17 31,
A .1). 1964. !bateucbeopS... of ..1d p~ . ... obaFter
.ball be _1184 8$ in tblø .eot1on P1'Ov14ed . t l...t
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th1n, ... (30) a.-,. prior to the 3r4 day-ot NOV.ber,
A.D. 1964.
.JlCTIO. 4. þt pollina sball be eOO0B1P11abed
at at\4 tbe 1'0110.1n¡ aft àel'ebl <tea1gMte<tand.. .a.'"
11øhe4 a. poll1ns pla.._ w1th1n tbecorponte I11t1 t.
of aa14CltJI
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Denton :Road.. .t.en Dent
t)r!vt and .1ft_ad OIka Drive
4700 :8;)oth 0811.., Road.,
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all ·wltb1n the eor,o:'ete l11d.ts ot tbeCltJ of North. R1ch1aRd
Ø1111.. TeDI. .
1.'fION5. fbetollow1ncpertOl1.ø aN bø.'br appo1nted
to aet I-I election ott1e".t
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... LOVISa STICI:tÐØ
Clerk
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Clðrk
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Clerk
... ALIC1NtnfLl!
Clerk
_. I. B. JIIIIt'T
A..1øtant JucII.
MIS. c. :a" CaBAlIIft
Clerk
JIRS. J. 1>. JiAi.BR
Clel'k
MIl. B. I. MY
Clerk
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Clerk
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Clad
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lIP,. Charles P.tÞChe1"
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Mr.. W. I. 81;1~kl.$
Clerk
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Clerk .
Mr$ . Qlenn Crt\ò1 'Ç
Aåa1$tant JU\i'ge
1In. R. E. Cu~n
Cl-ilrk
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".,. *11 ..,..,. ..... out or .. ,.. .'·.14 01',
all .._ 1......··..~:,~...._1.....1._ to.. .. bold.Þa
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p1.1rpoøe b$'ttw..n .,1ètht>¡;u."S. .Ab..nt.. vo1;1t$ .,be
800=.· ;¡ahe4at tl'1<.... C1t.·'.11 .'bJ'. all.. ,..11tte4 y..o.·..teX'a
"*1··· . 1If1tblntbe øorpo_t.e 11ød.t..t ..14 01t,
upon application dUl, m.ut. and in accordaaoe wltb
1.., 'bet'w..n octo"r 26th aNi October 30tb., .1.1. 1964.
4w:-1q offioe bøur$.. from 8.00 A.M. to 5rOO ,......8\1O'h
absentee balloting to take place at ..14 01t, Ball
l".teeS and a1tut$t Qft tbe øømeX'ot l1em1.. Drive
.na *~n Clrele in .a1d tit,.
tlBeTtO. 8. !bat the C1t, 8eoftta",ot the C1tJ
of North RlohlaA4. Hilla" 1.\Uaa" aball P~$t a oopy of
tb1. .ord~MÞ.e. in .at letiult.tl". .(5)pub11c place. within
tbe cQ~orate lbn1t.ott~ C1t, ot 1fo~ JU.oblan4 H111a..
!e.'it arter 'Wbleb Ibe 811411 oert1tJ a$ to the date and
plaô. ot posting eaenol &$14 cðp1eø of' th1a ordinance"
.. _ke Mtb the1"$'to.
$.IOTION 9. TbØ ballot to be tlae4 1n.1c:1 election
_.11 'be pr.pat'ed in ~_nne1" and. tON p~Y14H OJ' too
æeotlonOo4e ot the state of 'leu.., aa. _.n.t_" and
fUrther ,unuant to tbe prcv1alons ot 1'1tle 28, ...'1elea 1165
. th:J:ltnqgñ 1182, .. _.nð.ed", ot "14 f(øvll1ed C1'9'11 statute. of'
tbe$,*te ot '!'eMS.
a1lC\'I0tI 10.. All quellt1e4 'oten W1th1n the ..nine;
and, .. pre8cribed "the lAwe of the state of' !a_awno
M". !"ea1"" ..1th1n the ()():f'porate 11alt,ot the Clty of
Ho...nhR1.ohlan" H.111e.. Teas...I> toralx (5) monthe prior to .
the ðate t:>f' Mid el$Ot1on calle4 bet."efn and 1n the State ot .
,.... f'or one (l) ,.¡o. pl'1or thèreto a.l1 be eligible and
ent1tl$d to vot. a-t luøh election.
Sac'llON 11.l1ect1on .ttlcen abOve ..na1leCt $ball -k.&
and. 4el1ver tberet~ of ø:14eleot:1on In. tr1pl1u~, one
beIns rete 1n.db, the Preø1d1ns .T''l4ge,one cb!11veNd. to tbe
IItlOr ot the 01t, øt lørth R1ebland. H111ø.1'eXfUJ, __ one
to the C1 t1 aecretarv of' said Cit,. tbe "1lot box <ton-
talnlna tþ ..1ptu" .tuba trom. ballot. used' in H14
(flection..ball bedê11Y'.N4 to the Ðl11ìtr1ct Clerk of
.....nt Oount" ~_.# an40ther ballot bO:Diì and eleot1on
t'ecoRtaan4 au.ppl1...blll bé preflUit1"Ved b, the C1tJ
aeøNtaFt .a þrov14eð t, 1....
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.acnOlIi. '!be Citr Cø\lmo11.-.11.__tt1et iUOM
tun 'ten (10)_,.. att.rt.ðateot .Sd .e3.Cítet;1on fer
the pttrpt>ee or can_.etas tbe.t\ì,maQf.$.4 eleet1ot'l..
..acTIO. 13. .14 'flectlon..11 be_14'9 eon...
_.Me! 1n.Q(H')~ne.\11~b. tb. ta... øt theS,,*teof feDa
rt>F t. boldine"r <Ie__l ad$,eo1a1I1ecú1ønato't! the
..t~ aM eount, ott1e..,. e..apt.. ~th.wl8i. pNY1decl
Þ, Cbetptel''IWo"T1t'1. 28..~t tbe ftev:t$ø Civil statutes
of the ltate or 'fttDII.t 811J $~.
81C'1'ION l~. !bet tb.l, oM'S..nee ·...11 __n4"cora$
in fUll torc..Qd.trect trøa ._.tta~ tk. _teot its
,.a.... an« .tl.opt10A.
ø.'!.tON 15. It'1\7 Wo",.øentenee., cl&u......ct1on
an4/or prøV1.101\ bø1"eôt .bll1 tor 8"".....on ~ held to
N Utlco_t:ttutlorltJ. PJ:' 1$\...114,..1.<1 b-oldl..ttall not
in an,. _1''''.1' .rteøt tn. ~1n1ns ,pen1on. hereof', but
aame_hall....-1n .n4 \1$ in ttd.l tbro. andetfeet.
Pu.sD AD ADO,. on __18" (.".,., of ootober,
.A.D. 1964, tUN bé1ns ,.. ......~t ,..ðouncil_n p:re..nt,
flU1". . . '- J... ,t;øM'fí.'+øt1n¡ for th. ~8Mse
and. .Q.~1Öñfterfti;.ict,.., Ç?m",(;o'Jftc11anen voting
ap1n.' tu "..Hþ anc aløp'ti1"tà bt~tGt.
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_J!ltb. MobJ.an4 JI111s~ 1'e3ta*.. ðo b.reby tit)' . t))at I
poet" .. t.~.I~.L4a1 01" October" A. Ð. ...~. t:rue .8Þ4
ðorrect 00'7 or tbe .bo.. and rON"oin¡ OH1Þanc.'. be1n¡
an ()Ñ1l'14mee _lliag a Special 1Ueøt1on to M _ld.tth1n
the ~orpont4i 11i&1 t$ ot the 01 tJ or lførth lttOhland H111e,
TeQ$j cntn~ .3J."d. (jay of Itov~. A. D. 1964" paNed an4
.do9te~ by tn,,, City. Council ot tbe Clt,Or*rtb JU.ob1altd
Hills:l T~»u:l.:t at a Speol$l _etin¡ of Aid Counoil hdld
within tbe cOl!p$rat:e 11ød.t$ of 014 city 011 tbe let da:r of.'
Octohzo, A.. D. 1~, the pl..øes ...d/ør adttftaeeøat which
".id ~..,;V of eaid i:)r,11Ull1ø8 was po.te<t being .$ tol1OWIJt
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of the State of Texas, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the attached is
I, MARK W. WHITE, JR., Secretary of State
a true and correct copy of the following described instruments
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CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
December 9, 1964
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
signed my name officially and caused to be im-
pressed hereon the Seal of State at my office in
the City of Austin, this
25th January 74
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Mayor John Hunter
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Attached is the proposed Home Rule Charter for our City. The
Charter Commission, which was elected by the people last Nov.19,1963,
has completed its work and submits the Charter for approval by the
voters of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas. The Commission
has me~ many times and devoted many hours to the completion of this
project.
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We have studied the provisions of many Charters and have
adopted those portions which most nearly meet our needs in North
Richland Hills. The proposed Charter for North Richland Hills is
not lenßthy since the Commission felt a need for a brief, concise
and to the point Charter. The following are a few highlights of
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Our proposed Charter cuts the Maximum Tax Rate from
$2.50 to ~;¡. 50.
The proposed Charter provides for a City Manager form
of government.
The proposed Charter provides for seven (7) Councilmen
and a Mayor. Each will be elected to a designated place
from the City at large.
Provision has been made for initiative, referendum and
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Provision has been made for strict budget and audit
req,uirements.
The Commission feels that this Charter will adequately fill the
needs of our City.
We wish to express our appreciation for assistance rendered us
by Dr. John Haltom, T. C. U., Dr. Luther Haggard, Arlington State
College, Glenn Goodnight, Attorney for the City, and the many cities
tþroughout the State who furnished sample Charters.
We ask that this Charter be submitted to the people at an election
to be held on the 3rd day of November, 1964.
We the undersigned members of the City of North Richland Hills,
, Charter Commission do hereby submit the proposed Charter for the
City of North Richland Hills,Texas, and recommend its submission
to the qualified voters of said City as provided by law.
Respectfully submitted,
C. F. Luper
Paul J. Harmon, Jr.
Don Roberts
Clarence Kinnaird
T. J. Hickman
Billy V. Taylor
Ray Sprinkel
Buck Hubbard
J. E. Whitbeck
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C. A. Latimer
Clyde E. Zellers
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Ray S. Lofland
A. F. Stepp
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PROPOSED CHARTER
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CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS. TEXAS
PREAMBLE
In thankful recognition of the leadership of Almighty God, we the Citizens
of North Rich1and Hills, Texas, humbly invoking His blessings, do ordain and
establish this Charter. dt
ARTICLE I
CORPORATIVE NAME
SECTION l. CORPORATE NAME.
All the Citizens of the City of North Ri~hland Hills, Tarrant County, Texas,
as the boundaries and limits of said city are herein established, shall be a
body politic, incorporated under and to be known by the name and style of the
City I)f "North Richland Hills", with such powers, rights and duties as are here-
in provided.
ARTICLE II
BOUNDARIES
SECTION l. BOUNDARIES.
The-boundaries and limits of the City of North Rich1and Hills, until
changed in the manner herein provided, shall be the same as have heretofore
been established and as exist on the date of the adoption of this charter, which
boundaries are more fully set out and described by metes and bounds in a book
called Official Record Describins the Metes and Bounds of the City of North
Richland Hills, which is now and shall hereafter he in the office of the City
Secretary of the City of North Richland Hille,
ARTICLE III
FORM OF GOVEill''!MF,NT
SECTION 1. FOPJ1 OF GOVERNMÐ1T.
The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be known as the
"Council, Mana8er Government". Pursu.::mt to its provisions and subject only to
,- the limitations imposed by the State Constitution and by this Charter. All
powers of the City sh~ll be exercised in the manner prescribed by this Charter,
or if,the manner be not prescribed then in such manner as may be prescribed by
ordinance.
ARTICLE IV
GENERAL ,POh'ERS
SECTION 1. ENUHERATEEL pm,TERS.
NOT EXCLUSluE.
The enl~éeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not be held or
deemed to be exclusive, but, in addition to the powers enum erated therein or
implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise of such powers, it is intended
that the City shall have, and may exercise, all powers of local self-government,
and all powers enumerated in Chapter l3, Title 28, Article 1175 of the Revised
Civil Statutes of the State of Texas of 1925, and any amendments thereof, or
any other pOf1ers which, under the Constitution and la\~s of the State of Texas,
it \~ou1d be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate. All power~ of
.the City, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised in the manner pre-
scribed herein, or when not prescribed herein, then in the manD';: &: ___'ovided by
the general laws of Texas relating to cities and to\~ns. .
ARTICLE V
CITY COUNCIL
SECTION 1. CITY OFFICI~LS.
The municipal government of the City shall consist of a city council composed
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of a mayor and seven (7) councilmen. Said mayor and oounci1 shall be elected
from the City at large. The above named officers shall be elected by the
qualified voters of the City. The City Councilmen and Mayor each shall be
allowed, for incidental expenses, the sum of Ten ($10.00) Dollars per month
and such designated actual expenses supported in writing which shall have
been presented to the City Council and received approval.
4Þ SECTION 2. QUALIFICATIONS.
Each of the seven Councilmen and the Mayor shall be at least 25 years of
age, a citizen of the United States of America and a qualified voter of the
State of Texas; shall have resided for at least one year next preceding the
election, at which they are candidates, within the corporate limits of North
Rich1and Hills; and shall not be in arrears in the payment of any taxes or
other liability due the city, or be disqualified by reason of any provision of
any other section of this charter. A member of the Council ceasing to possess
any of the qualifications specified in this section or any other sections of
this charter, or convicted of a felony before or while in office, shall imme-
diately forfeit his office. No councilman shall hold any other public office
except that of Notary Public, member of the National Guard or any Military
Reserve, or a retired member of the Armed Services.
SECTION 3. DATE OF ELECTION.
The regular municipal elections of the City of North Rich1and Hills shall
be held on the first Tuesday of April of each even-numbered calendar year, and
the same shall be conducted and the results canvassed and announced by the
election authorities proscribed by the general election laws of the State of
Texas, and said general laws shall control in all municipal elections except
as otherwise herein provided.
SECTION 4. HOURS OF ELECTION.
The polls shall open at each election from seven olc10ck A. M. until seven
óldlock P. M. If the polls are not promptly opened for the reception of voters
at seven o'clock A. M. the time thus lost shall be extended beyond the point
of seven olclock P. M. so as to secure the full period of twelve hours to vote.
SECTION 5. OFFICIAL BALLOT.
The official ballot shall be drawn up by the City Secretary and approved
by the City Attorney and will contain the' names of all candidates for office,
except those who may have been withdrawn, deceased or become ineligible. Names
will be placed on the ballot without party designation and position on the
ballot will be determined by drawing held by the City Secretary. Filing within
time limits shall be as prescribed by state law.
SECTION 6. SPECIAL ELECTION.
A special election shall be held sixty (60) days following adoption of
this charter to elect seven (7) councilmen and a mayor. This council and
mayor shall hold office until the next regular election date as specified in
SECTION 3. above.
SECTION 7. CANDIDATES: TO RUN FOR PLACES:
PL~CES DESIGNATED.
Candidates for city council shall run for Place No. one, Place No. Two,
Place No. Three, Place No. Four, Place No. five, Place No. Six, Place No.
Seven or for Mayor as the case may be, and shall be voted on and elected
~ accordingly, by the vote of the qualified voters of the City at large.
SECTION 8. JUDGE OF ELECTION.
The City council shall be the judge of the election and qualification of
its own members and of the mayor, subject to the courts in the case of contest.
The city council shall as soon as practical after the election either at a
called meeting c~ed for that purpose or at its next regular meeting date of
said council after each regular or special election, canvass the returns and
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declare the results of such election. The candidates receiving the majority
number of votes for an office shall be declared elected, If such election
results in a candidate not receiving a majority of votes it shall be the duty of
the mayor to order a second election for the office or offices in which candi-
dates did not receive a majority of votes. Said election to be held not later
than thirty (30) days from the date on which the city council canvassed the
returns and declared the result. In said second election, only those can run
who did not recèive a majority of votes in the first election. In the event
one of the candidates of the first election withdr~"s ~r dies, a second election
shall not be held for that office, and the other candidate for such office
shall be declared elected, and shall be seated.
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ARTICLE VI
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS
SECTION 1. POWERS OF THE COUNCIL.
All powers and authority which are expressly or explicitly conferred on
or possessed by the City shall be vested in and exercised by the City Council,
provided however, that the Council shall have no power to exercise those
powers which are expressly conferred upon other City officers by this Charter.
SECTION 2. DUTIES OF ~L\YOR-MAYOR PRO TEM.
The Mayor of the City of North Richland Hills shall preside over the meet-
ings of the City Council and perform such other duties consistent with the office
as may be imposed upon him by this Charter and the ordinances and resolutions
passed pursuant hereof. He may participate in the discussion of all matters
corning before the Council and shall be entitled to vote in case of a tie, but
shall have no veto power. He shall sign all contracts a!1d conveyances made or
entered into by the City and all bonds issued under the provisions of this
Charter, and shall be the chief executive officer of the City. He shall be
recognized as the official head of the City by the court for the purpose of
serving civil process, by the Governor for the purpose of enforcing military
law, and on all ceremonial purposes. In time of danger or emergency, the Mayor
may with the consent of the Council take command of the police and govern the
City by proclamation and maintain order and enforce all laws.
The Mayor Pro Tern shall be selected from among the members of the Seven
(7) Councilmen; shall be selected at the first regular meeting following the
general city election, and shall in the absence or disability of the Mayor
perform all the Mayor's duties.
SECTION 3. DUTIES OF CITY COUNCIL.
(1) To appoint and remove the City Manager.
(2) To establish other administrative departments and distribute the
work of divisions and to abolish or consolidate said departments
and divisions.
(3) To adopt the budget of the city.
(4) To, authorize the issuance of bonds by a bond ordinance.
(5) To inquire into the conduct of any office, department or agency of
of the city and make investigations as to municipal affairs.
(6) To appoint the necessary commissions and boards to assist the Council
in the performance of its duties and responsibilities, such powers
subject to the restrictions of the charter and the laws of the State
of Texas.
(7) To adopt plats.
(8) To adopt and modify the official map of the city.
(9) To regulate, license, and fix the charges or fares made by any person
owning, obtaining or controlling any vehicle of any character used
for carrying of passengers for hire on tbe public streets and alleys
of the City.
(10) To provide for the establishment and designation of fire limits and
to prescribe the kind and character of buildings or structures or
improvements to be erected therein, and providé for the condemnation
of dangerous structures or buildings or dilapidated bu,ildings cal-
culated to increase the fire hazard, and the manner of their removal
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or destruction.
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To fix the salaries and compensation for the non-elective city
officers and employees.
To provide for sanitary se~er and water system.
May regulate burial grounds, cemetaries, and crematories and
condemn and close any such burial grounds, cemeteries, and crema-
tories in the thickly settled portions of the City when public
interest or public health may demand, and may regulate interment of
the deceased.
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SECTION l.. APPOINTMENT OR REMOVAL BY CITY COUNCIL.
Neither the Council nor any of its members shall direct or request the
appointment of any person to, or his removal from, 'office by the city manage~
or by any of his subordinantes, or in any manner take part in the appointment
or removal of officers and employees in the administrative servise of the city.
Except for the ?urpose of inquiry, the Council and its members sball deal with
the administrative service solely through the city manager and neither the
Council nor any member thereof shall give orders to any subordinates of the
ci.ty manager, either publicly or privately. 1',ny Councilman violating the
~rovisions of this Section, shall be qui1ty of ~ misde~~anor and upon convic-
tion thereof shall cease to be a councilman.
SECTION 5. l.PPOI~1'fMENr AND R:M£)'\,l,^,L OF CITY Sr.CRETARY.
The mayor shall appoint and remove the City Secretary and sucb assistant
~it: fecretaries as deemed adviseab1e with approval of two-thirds (2/3) majority
of the Council. The City Secretary, or an Assistant City Secretary, shall give
notice of Council meetings, shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of sùch
meetings, shall authenticate by his signature and record in full in a book kept
and indexed for the purpose, all ordinances ~nrl resolutions, and shall perform
such other duties as the City ~~nager shall assi3n to him, and those elsewhere
provided for in this Charter.
SECTION 6. APPOINTMENT ANTI 2EHO'!AL OF CITY ..\TTOl"j>1FY.
The Mayor shall appoint and remove the City Attorney with approval of two-
thirds (2/3) majority of the Council. The City Attorney shall be a competent
attorney, duly licensed ~nd admitted to the practice of law by the State of
Texas. The City Attorney shall be a resident of the City of North Richland
Hills, Tex.as. The City iìttorney shall be legal advisor of and attorney for
all officers of the City and shall represent the City in all litigation and
1ezal proceedings. He sball approve the legality of every ordinance before
it' is acted upon by the Council.
SECTION 7. CORPORATION CCœ?~T.
There shall be a court ~nown as the Corporatiòn Court of the City of
North Rich1and Hills, with such jurisdiction, powers, and duties as are given
and prescribed by the laws of the State of Texas.
(1) Judge of the Corporation Court.
The Corporation Court shall be presided over by a Magistrate
who shall be known as thp. City Judge and shall be a resident of North
Richland Hills, Texas. He shall be appointed or removed by the Mayor
with approval of two-thirds (2/3) majority of the Council. In the
event the City Judge is unable to act for any reason or in the event
of a vacancy, the Mayor shall act in place of the City Judge until such
vacancy shall be filled.
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Clerk of the Corporation Court.
There shall be a clerk of the Corporation Court who shall be
appointed by or removed by the Mayor and approved by two-thirds (2/3)
majority of the Council. The Clerk shall have power to administer oaths
and affidavits, make certificates, affix the seal of the court thereto~
and otherwise p~rform any and all acts necessary in issuing process of
such Court and conducting the business thereof. There shall be such
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deputy clerks of the Corporation Court as may be authorized and appointed
by the Council, who shall have authority to act for and on behalf of the
Clerk of the Corporation Court.
(3) Procedure in the Corporation Court.
All complaints, prosecutions, the service of process, commitment
of those convicted of offenses, the collection and payment of fines, the
attendant and service of witnesses and juries, punishment for contempt,
bail and the taking of bonds shall be governed by the provisions of Title
2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the S~e of Texas applicable to
Corporation Courts.
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ARTICLE VII
DEP Þ.I','!'HENTS
SECTION 1, GENERAL.
The City Cocnci1 may cre~te or establish, ~bo1ish or consolidate, as
many departments or offices as it may deem necessary for the best interest of
the City. It may divide the a0ministration of such departments or offices as
it may deem advisable.
l'.RTICL~ VIII
PUBLIC UTILITIES
SECTION 1. CITY m~NEr~SHIP AND OPERl..TION T1-:E~ŒOF.
(1) In General.
The City shall have po:·¡er to build, construct, purchase, orÑn, lease,
maintain and operate, within or without the City Limits, light and power
s~stems, water systems, sewer systems'or sanitary disposal equipment and
appliances"nautral gas systems, parks and s,qimming' ppols, fertilizer plants,
and any other public service or utility; power to mortgage and encumber such
system or systems in the manner provided in ~rticle 1111 to 1118, inclusive,
of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, and any other laws
of the State of Texas applicable thereto; and all the powers which the City
might exercise in connection with such public utilities and public services
under Article 1175 of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, and any
amendment thereto, now or hereafter in effect, as well as under any ot~er
~eneral la~vs of the State of Texas pertinent or applicable thereto, including
tàe power to demand and receive compensation for service furnished for
private purposes, or otherwise, and with full and complete power and right
of eminent domain proper and necessary efficiently to carry out said objects.
(2) Power to Contract For Public Utilities.
The City is authorized to enter into contracts or leases with
individuals, corporations, partnerships, or other municipal corporations,
for fqrnishing in whole or in part any public utility or portions of public
utility systems that might be needed by the City or the citizens of the City.
The consideration for such contracts or leases may in the discretion of the
city council be paid by the City or prorated to the individual users of the
utility covered by such contractor lease; or to permit individuals, corpo-
rations, partnerships or other municipal corporations to furnish in whole
or in part any public utility or portion of any public utility direct to
the citizens of the City on such terms as the City may direct.
(3)
Right to Purchase Commodities or Services Essential To City or its
Citizens.
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The City shall have the power to purchase electricity, gas, oil, or
any other article, commodity or service essenti~l to a proper conduct of all
the affairs of the City and of its inhabitants on such terms as the City
Council may deem proper, for sale and distribution to the inhabitants of the
City or adjacent territory. .
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SECTION 2. REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES.
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(1) The City Council shall have the power by ordinance, after notice to the
utility and hearing before the council, to fix and regulate the charges,
fares or rates, of compensation to be charged by any person, firm or corpora-
tion enjoying a franchise in the City, or engaged in furnishing a public
utility service in the city, and shall in determining, fixing and regulating
such charges, fares or rates of compensation, base the same upon the fair
value of the property of such person, firm or corporation devoted to furnish-
ing service to such City or the inhabitants thereof.. The City council may
prescribe the character, quality and efficiency of service to be rendered,
and shall have the power to regulate and require the extension of ad~quate
lines or service of such public utility within such City by such person,
firm or corporation, taking into consideration the cost to the utility, and
from time to time may alter or change such rules, regulations, and compensa-
tion, provided that, in adopting such regulations and in fixing or changing
such compensation or determining the reasonableness thereof, no stock or
bonds authorized or issued by any corporation enjoying sucr.:ranchise shall be
considered unless on proof that the same have been actually issued by the
corporation for money paid and used for the develöpment of the corporate
porperty, labor done or property actually received in accordance ~vith the
laws and Constitution of this State app1ic1b1e thereto. In order to ascertain
all facts necessary for a proper understanding of what is or should be a
reasonable rate of regulation, the city council shall have full power to
inspect the books of any such utility serving ~~~ :nhabitants of the City and
compel production of records and the attendance of r¥Ítnesses for such purpose.
(2) Any company, corporation or person engaged in furnishing to the inhabi-
tants of the City any li~ht, power, gas, telephone, transit or other public
utility services, may be required at any time by ordinance or resolution of
the City Council to file with the City Council s~vorn written reports per-
taining to their operations and business within the City, and such report
sba1l contaln such data, facts and information as may be required by such
ordinance or resolution, wbich shall also fix the time within which the
:eport shall be filed.
(3) In addition tDtbe foregoing powers the City shall have all the powers
and privileges provided for by Article 1175 of the Revised Civil Statutes
)f Texas in regulating public utilities.
ARTICLE IX
CONTRACTS
SECTION 1. GE~æRAL
All contracts tbat the City has at the time of the adoption of this Charter
shall remain in full force and effect. This provision shall include, but not
be limited to, all bonded indebtedness, contracts for professional services,
contracts for improvements, lease contracts, or any other agreement binding upon
the City of North Rich1and Hills, Texas, immediately prior to the adõption of
this Cbarter.
SECTION 2. PERSONAL SERVICES.
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No contract shall ever be made which binds the City for personal services,
except for professional services, to be rendered for any stated period of time,
but all appointive employees shall be subject to peremptory discharge, and when
discharged shall only be entitled to compensation up to and including the date
of their discharge, any provision to the contract in this Charter notwithstand-
ing.
SECTION 3. GOODS, !1ATERIALS, SERVICES OR SUPPLIES.
The City or any agent of the City acting for it shall not make any contract
for goods, materials, services, or supplies for the current use of any department
of the municipality for more than one year, except as in this Charter provided, .
unless said contract and the cost thereof has been included in the annual budget
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of the City end unless an appropriation has been made therefor, and no contracts
or purchase shall exceed the am01mt appropriated. All contracts in excess of
$ 2,000.00, except for professional services, shall be ¡nade upon specifications,
and no contract shall be binding until it has been sip'ned by a desi0'nated
representa~ive of the City. Whenever the cost of any ~ontracts charged to an~
8ppropriat~on equal the amount of such appropriation, no person representlng the
City shall sign or make any additional contrac~s chargeable to such approriation.
Any contract for current expenditures exceeding the amount set up in the budget
or the appropriation therefor shall be void.
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SECTION 4. COr~ETITIVE BIDDING.
After approval of specific3r.~ons by the city council, advertisement shall be
published in the official ne<vspaper of the City at least once in each week for
two consecutive weeks, inviting competitive bids for labor and material embraced
in the proposed contract. All bids received shall be sealed and delivered to
the city secretary. At the time and place ,announced in said notice, the bids
shal1œ opened and no aWdrd shall be made exce?t to one of such bidders. The
city council shall determine the most advantageous bid for the City, and shall
award the contract to such bidder, but the City Council shall always have the
right to reject any and all bids, and in the event all bids are rejected, may
call for nel', bids which sh3ll be advertised in like manner as the original bids.
Pending advertisement of such proposed contracts, the specifications shall be on
file in the office of the city secretary subject to the inspection of all per-
sons desirine to bid. ~:o contract shall ever be authorized except by approval
of the city council; provided, horvever, th~t contracts for less than two thousand
dollars may be awarded Ivithout advertisement anò bid, as herein required, if
in the opinion of the city council such advertisement and bid should be waived.
SECTION 5. FP~NCHISES ^ND SPFCIAL P~IVILEGES.
(1) The right to co~trol, easement, use and ownership and title to the
streets, h1ghways, public thoroughfares and property of the City, its avenues,
parks, bridges and all other public places and property, are hereby declared
to be inalienable except by ordin~nce duly passed by four affirmative votes of
the city council, and no srant of any franchise or lease, or right to use the
sam2,eithêron, through, along, across, under or over the same, by any private
corporation, association or in~ividual shall be grdnted by the city council for
a longer ¿eriod than fifty (50) years unless submitted to the vote of the legally
qualified voters of the city in the manner provided for in Articles 1181 and 1182
of the Revised Civil Ståtutes of Texas, the expense of such election to be borne
by the applic3nt.
(2) The City council may, of its own motion, submit all of such applications,
to an election at which the people shall vote upon the proposition therein submitted,
the expense of such election in all cases to be borne by the applicant.
(3) No franchise shall ever be granted until it has been approved by a
majority of the members elected to the City Council, after having been read in
full at two (2) regular meetin3sof the city council, nor shall any such franchise,
grant or privilege ever be made unless it provides for adequate compensation or
consideration therefor to be paid to the City.
(4) Every such franchise or grant shall make adequate prov~s~on, by way of
forfeiture of the grant or otherwise, to secure efficiency of public service at
reasonable rate and to maintain the property devoted to the public service
in good repair throughout the term of grant of said franchise.
(5) No franchise grant shall ever be exclusive.
(6) The City Council may prescribe the forms and methods of the keeping of
accounts of any grantees under franchise, provided that the forms and methods of
keeping such accounts have not already been prescribed by a State or Federal Law
or Agency.
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ARTICLE X
rn{;NEr~HIP OF REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY
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SECTION 1. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.
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The City shall have the power and authority to acquire by purchase, gift,
devise, deed, condemnation, or otherwise, any character of property, within or
without its municipal boundaries, including any charitable or trust funds.
SECTION 2. REAL ESTATE, ETC., OtiNED BY THE CITY.
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All real estate owned in fee simple titled, or held by lease, sufferance,
easement or otherwise; all public buildings, fire stations, parks, streets and
alleys, and all property, whether real or per$ona1, of whatever kind, character
or description, now owned or contrò1led by the City, shall vest in, inure to,
remain, and be the property of said city under this Cnarter; and all causes of
action, choses in action, rights or privileges of every kind and character, and
all property of whatsoever character or description which may have been held,
and is now held, controlled or UG~è by said City for public uses, or in trust
for the public, shall vest in and remain and inure to the City under this
Charter, and all contracts, suits and pending actions to which the City hereto-
fore was or now is a party, plaintiff or defendant, shall in no wise be affecte¿
or terminated by the adoption of this Charter, but shall continue unabated.
ARTICLE XI
STREETS AND ALLEYS
SECTION 1. STP~ET POtiERS.
The City shall have èxclusive control of all alleys, streets, gutters and side-
walks situated within the City, and the power to Layout, establish, open, alter,
extend, widen, straighten, ahandon and close, lmver, grade, narrow, care for,
supervise, maintain and improve any public street, alley, avenue, or boulevard,
and for any such purposes to acquire the necessary lands and to appropriate the
same under the power of eminent domain. The City shall a,lso have the power to
name or rename, vacate and abandon and sell and convey in fee that portion of
any street, alley, avenue, boulevard or other public thoroughfare or public
grounds, and to convey in fee the same in exchange for other lands, over which
any street, alley, avenue or boulevard may be laid out, established and opened;
and'the Cityls right to sell and dispose of in fee any part of a street, alley,
aVenue or boulevard so vacated and abandoned, or the Cityls right to convey same
in exchange for other lands to be used in laying out, opening, widening and
straightening any street, ,shall never be questioned in any of the Courts of this
State. The procedure for closing streets and a1léys shall be in conformity with
due process of law and shall be particularly prescribed and provided for by
ordinance passed in the usual manner by the City Council.
ARTICLE XII
FINANCE
SECTION 1. PREPARÞ~ION AND SUBMISSION OF BUDGET.
The City Manager, at least thirty-five days prior to the þeginning of each
budget year, shall submit to the Council a budget and an explanatory budget
message in the form and with the contents provided by Sections twelve (12)
through fifteen (15). For such purpose, at such date as he shall determiné, he,
or an officer designated by him, shall obtain from the head of each office, de-
partment or agency estimates of. revenue and expenditure of that office, department
or agency, detailed by organization units and character and object of expenditure
anri such other supporting data as he may request; together with an estimate of all
capital projects pending or which such. department head believes should be under-
taken (a) within the budset year and (b) within the five next succeeding years.
In preparing the budget, the City Manager shall review the esttmates, shall hold
hearings thereon and may revise the estimates, as he may deem advisable.
SECTION 2. BUDGET--A PUBLIC RECORD
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The budget and budget message and all supporting schedules shall be a
public record in the office of the city clerk open to public inspection by anyone.
The City Man8ger shall cause sufficient copies of the budget and budget message
to be prepared for distribution to interested persons.
SECTION 3. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING.
At tbe meeting of the Coonci1 at which the budget and budget message are
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submitted, the Council shall determine the place and time of the public hearing
on the budget, and shall cause to be published a notice of the place and time
not less than seven (7) days after date of publication, at which the Council
will hold a public hearing.
SECTION 4. PUBLIC HEARING ON BUDGET.
At the time and place so advertised, or at any time and place to which ~
such public hearing shall from time to time be adjourned, the Council shall hold
a public hearing on the budget as submitted, at which all interested persons shall
be given an opportunity to be heard, for or against the estimates or any item
thereof.
SECTION 5. FURTllER CONSIDERATION OF BUDGET.
After the conclusion of such public hearing, the Council may insert new
items or may increase or decrease the items of the budget, except items in
proposed expenditures fixed by law or prescribed by subsections (1), (2), (3),
(4), (5),(6), (7), (8), and (9) of Section 25. The Council may not vary the
titles, descriptions or conditions of administration specified in the budzet.
Before inserting any additional item or increasing any item or appropriation, it
must cause to be published a notice setting forth the nature of the proposed
increases and fixing a place and time, not less than five days after publication,
at which the Council will hold a public hearing thereon.
SECTION 6. ADDITION OF BUDGET.
After such further hearing, the Council may insert the additional item or
items, and make the increase or increases, to the amount in each case indicated by
the pùb1ished notice, or to a lesser amount, but where it· shall increase the total
proposed expenditures, it shall also increase the total anticipated revenue to at
least equal such total proposed expenditures.
SECTION 7. MAJO~ITY OF FULL COUNCIL REQUIRED.
The budget shall be adopted by the favorable votes of at least a majority
of all the members of the Council.
SECTION 8. DATE OF FINAL ADOPTION; FAILURE TO ADOPT.
The budget shall be finally adopted not later than the twenty-seventh day
of the last month of the fiscal year. Should the Council take no final action on
or prior to such day, the budget, as submitted, shall be deemed to have been
finally adoptèd by the Council.
SECTION 9. EFFECTIVE DATE OF BUDGET; CERTIFICATION: COPIES. ~~.DE AVAILABLE.
Upòn final adoption, the budget shall be in effect for the budget year. A
copy of the budget, as finally adopted, shall be certified by the City ~~nager and
City Clerk and filed in the office of the City Clerk. The budget so certified
shall be printed, mimeograph~d or otherwise reproduced and sufficient copies
thereof shall be made available for the use of all offices, departments and
agencies and for the use of interest persons and civic organizations.
SECTION 10. BUDGET ESTABLISHED APPROPRIATION.
From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein
as proposed expenditures shall be and become appropriated to the several objects
and purposes therein named.
SECTION 11. BUDGET ESTABLISrlliS A~OU~IT TO BE RAISED BY PROPERTY TAX;
CERTIFICATION TO TAXING AUTHORITY.
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From the effective date of the budget, the amount stated therein as the
amount to be raised by property tax shall constitute a determination of the
amount of the levy for the purposes of the City, in the corresponding tax year.
A copy of the budget as finally adopted shall be certified by the City Manager
and filed by him with the officer, board, or commission whose duty it shall be
to levy such taxes for the corresponding tax year.
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SECTION 12. BUDGET MESSAGE; CURRENT OPERATIONS.
The budget message submitted by the City Manager to the Council shall
be explanatory of the budget, shall contain an outline of the proposed financial
policies of the City for the budget year and sha1i describe in connection there-
with the important features of the budget plan. It shall set forth the reasons
for salient changes from the previous year in cost and revenue items and shall
explain any major changes in financial policy.
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SECTION 13. BUDGET MESSAGE; CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
As part of the budget message, with relation to the proposed expenditures
for do~qn payments and other proposed expe~d1tures for capital projects stated
in the budget, the City Manager shall include a statement of pending capital
projects and proposed new capital projects, relating the respective amounts
proposed to be raised therefor by appropriations in the budget and the respective
amounts, if any, proposed to be raised there tor by the issuance of bonds auring
the budget year.
SECTION 14. BUDGET MESSAGE; CAPITAL PROGRAM.
The City Manager shall also include in the message, or attach thereto, a
capital program of proposed capital projects for the five fiscal years next suc-
ceeding the budget year, prepared by the planning commission, together with his
comments thereon and any estimates of costs prepared by the department of
public works or other office,. department or agency. For theæe of the planning
commission in preparing such capital program, copies of the departmental esti-
mates of capital projects, filed with the City Manager pursuant to Section 1.
of this article shall be filed with the commission.
SECTION 15, BUDGET MESSAGE; SUPPORTING SCHEDULES.
Attached to the budget message shall be such supporting schedules, ex-
hibits and other explanatory material, in respect to both current operations and
capital improvements, as tDe City Manager shall believe useful to the Council.
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SfCTION 16. BUDGET.
The budget shall previde a complete financial plan for the budget year.
It shall contain in tabular form:
(1)
(2)
(3)
~ general summary;
detailedJ.estimates of all anticipated revenues applicable to proposed
expenditures;
all proposed expenditures.
The total of such anticipated revenues shall equal the total of such proposed
expenditures.
SECTION 17. ANTICIPATED PEVENUES.
Anticipated revenues shalll:e classified as "surplus," "miscellaneous reve-
nues" and "3mount to be raised by property tax;" miscel1aneous::"~7~tlues shall be
sub-classified by sources and shall be estimated as prescribed in Sections 20.
to 24. of this Article.
SECTION 18. ANTICIPATED REVENUES COMPARED HITH OTHER YEARS.
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In parallel columns opposite the several items of anticipated revenues
there shall be placed the amount of each such item in the budget of the last
completed fiscal year, the amounts of such items, actually received during the
year, the amount of each such item in the budget of the current fiscal year and
the amount actually received to the time of prepariµg the budget plus receipts
for the remainder of the current fiscal year estimated as accurately as may be.
SECTION 19. SURPLUS.
Surplus shall include:
(1) revenue receipts made available by the lapsing of unencumbered ap-
propriation balances at the beginning of the budget year;
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(2)
(3)
(4)
receipts from unanticipated miscellaneous revenues of the preceding
fiscal year;
receipts from anticipated miscellaneous revenues of the preceding
fiscal year in excess of the estimates in the budget;
receipts during the previous fiscal year from ~axes or liens against
which a complete reserve has been established.
SECTION 20. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUES.
Miscellaneous revenues shall include anticipated revenues from the col-
lection of taxes other than the general property tax; the amount of state aid to
be received; the amount by which the city is expected to benefit from taxes co1-
~ected by the state; the amounts estimated to be received from services and sales,
fines and forfeitures, pension assessments, special assessments and any other
special or non-recurring sources.
SECTION 21. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUES; ANTICIPATED SURPLUS .FROM MUNICIPAL UTILITY
OR OTHER PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE.
The anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures of each utility or
other public service enterprised owned, or operated, by the City, shall be stated
in a separate section of the budget (each bearing the naòme of the utility); and
as to each such utility, an anticipated surplus, if legally available for general
purposes, shall be stated as an item of miscellaneous revenue in the budget.
SECTION 22. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE; MEASURE OF ESTIMATES.
No miscellaneous revenue from any source shall be included as an antici-
pated revenue in the budget in an amount in excess of the average of the amount
actually realized in cash from the same source in the next preceding fiscal year,
and that actually realized in the first ten months of the current fiscal year plus
that to be received in the remaining two months of the year estimated as ac-
curately as may be, unless the City Manager shall determine that the facts
clearly warrant the expectation that such excess amount will actually be realized
in cash during the budget year and shall certify such determination in writing
to the council.
SECTION 23. MISCELLANEOUS REVENUES; RECEIPTS FROM SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.
Revenues from the collection of special assessments on property specially
benefited shall not be stated in an amount which is in excess of the amount of the
receipts so'derived which it is estimated will be held in cash on the first day of
the budget year.
SECTION 24. MISCELLA~TEOUS REVENUES; FROM NEH SOURCES.
No revenue from a new source not previously stated in the budget shall be
included unless the City Manager shall determine that the facts clearly warrant
the expectation that such revenue will be actually realized cash during the
budget year in the amount stated and shall certify such determination in writing
to the Council. If the new revenue is to be received from the state, the antici-
pated amount shall not exceed the amount which the proper officer of the state
shall declare in writing to be the amount which may reasonably be anticipated
in the budget year.
SECTION 25. PROPOSED EY.PEt\"DITURES.
The proposed expenditures shall
extent as shall be provided by law,
ulations established by ordinance.
budget for at least:
be itemized in such form and to such
and in the absence of such provision, by reg-
Separate provision shall be included in the
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
interest, amortization and redemption charges on the public debt
for which the faith and credit of tbe City is pledged;
other statutory expenditures;
the payment of all judgments;
the amount by which the total receipts of miscellaneous revenues in
the last complett:d fiscal year failed to equal the total of the budget
estimates of receipts from miscellaneous revenues in that year.
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(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
an amount equal to the aggregate of all taxes levied for the third
fiscal year prior to t~ - '''ldget year which are delinquent and out-
standing on the sixtieth day prior to the beginning of the budget
year except to the extent the City may have made provision therefor
by reserving the full amount of said delinquent taxes;
an amount equal to the aggregateœ all cancellations, remissions,
abatements and refunds of taxes, that have been made during the
current fiscal year;
an amount equal to the aggregate of all special revenue notes which
it is estimated will be outstanding at the end of the current year
in anticipation of the collection of revenues· other than the property
tax;
an amount equal to the aggregate of all emergency nates which it is
estimated will be outstanding at the end of the current year;
if the City is required to make up the deficit arising from the opera-
tions of utility or other public service enterprises, an amount equal
to the deficit from such operations during the last completed fiscal
year, separately stated from each utility or other public service ente~-
prise which appe&rs in a separate section of the budget;
administration, operation and maintenance of each office, department
or agency of the City itemized by character and object of expenditure;
contingent expense in an amount not more than three per centum of
tbe total amount stated pursuant to subsection (~O) of this section;
expenditures proposed for capital projects including provisions for
down payments on capital projects, as required by section 27 of this
charter.
SECTION 26. PROPOSED EXpmWITURES, COMPARISON HITH OTHE~ YEARS.
In parallel columns opposite the several items of proposed expenditures
there shall be placed the amount of each such item in the budget of the last com-
pleted fiscal year, the amount of such items actoal1y expended during such year,
the amount of each suèh item in the budget of the current 'year and the amount
actually expended to the time of preparing the budget plus the expenditures
for the remainder of the current fiscal year estimated as accurately as may be.
SECTION 27. DO:'¡N P AY11ENTS ON CAPITAL PROJECTS.
Under the special caption of "down payments on capital projects," as pro-
vided in subsection (1) of section 25 of this charter, there shall be separately
stated as to each capital project for ~vhich it is expected that bonds will be
authorized during the budget year, a sum which is not less than five per centum
of the amount of bonds to be authorized for that project. For purpose of the
down payments, all street improvements expected to be partly financed by the
issuance of bonds during the budget year may be considered a single project;
so alsö may all proposed extensions of the water system, and likewise all ex-
tensions of the sewer systems. Such an appropriation for a down payment
shall. not be required before the issuance of bonds to finance any capital expendi-
ture which is the result of fire, flood or other disaster, or which is for a city
owned, or operated utility or other public service enterprise, or which is to be
met in part, in cash, labor or materials, by any agency of the government of
the United States of America, or of this state.
SECTION 28. BUDGET SUHMARY.
At the head of the budget there shall appear a summary of the budget,
which need not be itemized further than by principal sources of anticipated
revenues, stating separately the amount to be raised by property tax, and by
departments and kinds of expenditures, 'in such a manner as to present to tax-
payers a simple and clear summary of the detailed estimates of the budget.
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SECTION 29. C:ŒATION OF SINKING FUND AND INVESTI1Et-:rS.
The ordinance authorizing any bonds to be issued shall provide for the
creation of a sinking fund sufficient to pay the bonds or warrants at maturity,
and make provision for the payment of the interest thereon as it matures, and
any surplus in any sinkin3 fund or any general fund may be invested in bonds
of the State of Texas, or in securities of the United States, or such funds may
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1-e, 1's.3d for the purchase of the bonds or warrants of the City of North Richland
Hills, T~xas which dre not yet due, provided, however, that the price paid for
said bonds or securities shall not exceed the market value at the time of
purchdse and the accrued interest provided for in said bonds or securities, and
provided fu~ther that no such bonds or securities shall be purchased' which,
according to their terms, mdture at a date subsequent to the time of maturity of
the bonds for the payment of ~hich such sinking fund was created. Neither in-
terest nor sinkint fund shall be devoted to any other purpose whatsoever.
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SECTION 30. DIVERSION OF I~~EREST OR SINKING FUND.
Any officer of the City who shall direct or use the interest or sinking
funds for any purpose exc~pt that for ~hich the fund is created or is expressly
authorized to be invested, shall be liable and responsible to the City of North
Richland Hills in the full amount of such dive~sion and/or use, with lawful
interest; and in case such diversion o~ use is made or participated in by more than
one officer of the City the liability and responsibility therefor shall be joint
and several.
SECTION 31. INDEPENDE~~ áUDIT.
The Council shall cause an independent audit to be made of the books of
account, records and transactions of all the administrative departments of the
City at least once yearly. Such audits, during such fiscal year, shall be made
by one or more certified public accountants who for the three years next pre-
cedin~, have held a certificate issued by the St~te Board of Accountancy of the
State of Texas, or by a Statemamtaining an equal standard of professional re-
quirements, which entitled the holder of such certificate to a Texas certificate.
The Auditor or Auditors to make the said audit shall be selected by the Council,
and shall be responsible to the Council~ The duties of the Auditor or Auditors so
appointed shall include the certification of all statements. Such statements
shall include a balance sheet, exhibiting the assets and liabilities of the City,
supported by departmental schedules, and schedules for each publicly owned or
operated, su~~aries of income and expenditures, supported by detailed schedules;
and also comparisons, in proper classification, with the last previous year. The
report of such Auditor or Auditors for the fiscal year shall be printed and ropy
thereof shall be furnished to each member of the council the City Manager and
to each citizen who may apply therefor, and the same shall also be published once
in the official newspaper. The original report of the said Auditor or Audit0rs
shall be kept among the permanent records of the City.
ARTICLE XIII
TAXATION
SECTION 1. PROPERTY SUBJECT TO TAXATION.
All property, real personal or mixed, lying and being within the corporate
limits of the City of North Richland Hills on the 1st day of January, shall be
subject to taxation, excepting such property as may be exempt from taxation under
the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Texas. It shall be the duty of the
Assessor and Collector of Texas, between the first day of January and the first
day of July of each year, to make and return to the Governing Body of the City
a full and complete list, and assessment of all property, both real and personal,
held, owned or situated in said City on the first day of January of each year and
not exempt from municipal taxation, and also a list of all banks, and other
corporations whose capital stock is liable to taxation, with the cash value of the
shares of stock of each such bank or other corpor3tion and the names of the
ot.¡ners thereof.
SECTION 2.
POHER TO TAX.
The Gov~rning Body of the City shall have full PQ~er to provide by ~)
ordinance for the prompt co1lpction of taxes aSAessed, levied and imposed under
the Charter, and is hereby ~uthorized, and to that end may and shall have full
power ~nd authority to sell or Cduse to he Bold all kinds.of prorerty, real and
personal, .and ruay and shall rn,Ùe such rules ,md l:e:::,uL-itions and ordain and
p.Jss all ordinances deemed necessary to the Jevyin[:;, l.,¡ying, imposing, assessing
and collecting of any ta~ŒS ~rovided for in the Ch:irter. Unless other.vise pro-
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vided by ordinance and the Charter, all property in such City liable to taxation
shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of the 8ener~l laws of the
State insofar as applicable.
SFCTION 3.
EXEMPT PROPE~TY.
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All household furnishings and effects used by the taxpayer in his actual
residence and all automobiles used by the taxpayer for his own personal use shall
be exempt from taxes.
SECTION l}.
PUBLIC NOTICE TO RE~TDER.
The Assessor and Collector of Taxes shall, at least ten days before the
first day of January of each year, give public notice by advertisement in the
official new~V3per that all persons owning or controlling, as agent or otherw~se,
any personal property or real estate subject to municipal taxation, are requir~d
to render same for taxation on or before the first day of April of each year.
All merchants doing business in the City are required within the same time to
furnish tbe Assessor and Co11c~tor of Taxes a true statement, verified by affi-
davit, of all goods, ware and mercbandise owned or kept on hand by sucb mer-
chant on tbe first day of J~nuary.
SECTIO~; 5.
TAXATION OF Fr~~NCHISES.
~11 rigDts, privileges and franchises hertofore or bereafter granted to
and be1d by any person, firm or corporation, in tbe streets, alleys, hisb~vays, or
public grounds or places in said City, shall be subject to taxation by said City
sepaT.'3te1y from and in addition to tbe other .:ssets of sucb person, firm or
corpordtion, and tbe Governin~ Body of the City may re~uire the rendition and
assessment tbereof accordingly.
SECTION 6.
RENDITION A~D EVALUATION.
All prop~rty, real and person~l, shall be rendered for taxation by tbe owner
thereof or his agent, as provided by the laws of the State for the rendition of
property for assessment by tbe County, insofar as applicable; provided, bowever,
that in ~~king sucb renditions the. o~qner or a3ent sba1l be required to state tbe
tru~ and full value of the real and personal property, and sbal1 furnish to the
¿ssessor and Collector, 'verified by the oath of the party making such rendition
~ full and complete list and schedule of all property, real and personal, be-
longing to the person, firm or corporation i~ ~vhose name such property is rendered.
It shall be the duty of the Assessor and Collector to value each and every item
of tbe property so rendered in accordance with the fair market price tbereof
upon a basis of valuation to be applied alike to all taxpayers, and to transmit
to the Governing Body of the City all renditions tbus made together with a state-
ment by him, verified by his oath, to the effect tbathe haa truly, fairly and
equally valued all such property.
SECTION 7.
EOAP~ OF EQUALIZATION; APPOI~~ME~IT A~ID QUALIFICATIONS.
Tbe City Council may prior to the first day of eacb year appoint three
residents, who shall not be members of the City Council and who sball be qualified
voters and real property owners, as tbe board of equalization. Such board shall
cboose from its membership a chairman and a secretary (not the Assessor-Collector
of taxes). A majority of said board sba11 constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. Members of the board while serving sba11 receive such compensation
as may be provided for them by the City Council.
SECTION 8.
PUBLIC HEARINGS OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.
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At the same meeting that the Council appoints the board of equalization it
sba11 by ordinance fix the time of the first meeting of the board, ~vhicb sh~ll be
on the second Monday in May of each year or as soon thereafter as practicable.
After sucb first meetin~, tbe board may reconvene and adjourn from time to time,
::nd as long thereafter as may be necessary it: sba1l bear and determine the complaint
of any persons in re1atiryn to tbe assessment roll, provided said board shall be
finally adj ourned by the last day 0; I?aid mOt)th. lVhenever said board shall find it
their duty to raise the value of any property appearinz on the tax lists or tax
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records of the City, it shall, after havine ~xamined such lists and records and cor-
rected all errors appearinß therein adjourn to a day not less than ten nor more than
fifteen days from the date of adjournment, and shall cause the secretary of said
board to Bive written notic~ to the owner of such property or to the person
rendering same of the time to ~,}hich said board has adj ourned, and that such
owner or person renderin~ said property may at that time appear and show
cause why the value of said property should not be raised. Such notice may be
served by depositine the sa~e, properly addressed, and postage paid, in the
post office.
SECTION 9.
POT"L:'.. AND DUTIES OF EO!.lill OF EQUALIZATION.
It shall be the duty of such board to examine and, if necessary, revise the
assessments as returned by the City assessor-Collector, to the end that all prop-
erty roithin the City shall be aSEessed as fairly and as uniformly as possible,
The board of equalization shall also have the po~er to:
(1) Review on complaint of prop9rty owners asseSS8ents for the purpose
of taxation of both reúl and persodal pro~erty within the City
made by the City ~ssessor-Col1ector;
(2) Administer oaths;
(3) Take testimony;
(4) Hold hearings;
(5) ,~.è"'pt regulations regarding the procedure of assessment revieév;
(6) Compel the production of all books, docu8ents, and other papers per-
tinent to the investization of the taxable values of any person,
firm or corporation h2ving or owning pro~erty within the corporate
limits of the City subject to taxation.
SECTION 10. ~ECO?illS ^ND ~CLLS OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.
The board shall be required to keep an accurate record of all its proceed-
ings, which shall be available for public inspection. Immediately upon comple-
tion of its work the board shall certify its approval of the assessmeæro1ls, which
shall be returned to the City Council, which shall thereupon approve the said
rolls as returned to it and thereupon arlopt the same as the assessment rolls to be
used for the collection of taxes for the current year.
SECTION ll. TA}~S; WHEN DUE AND PAYABLE.
All taxes due the City of North Rich1and Hills shall be payable at the office of
the City Assessor-Collector and may be paid at any time after the tax rolls for
the year have been completed and approved, which shall be not later than September
l. Taxes shall be paid before February 1, and all such taxes not paid prior to such
date shall be deemed delinquent and shall be subject to such penalty and interest
as the City Council may provide by ordinance. Failure to levy and assess taxes
through omission in preparation of the approved tax roll shall not relieve the
person, firm or corporation so omitted from obligatj.on to pay such current or
past-due taxes as shown to be payable by recheck of the rolls and receipts for
the years in question.
SECTION 12. POvJER TO BORRm.¡.
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The City of North Richland Hills shall have the right and power to borrow money
on the credit of the City for permanent public improvements or for any other
public purpose consistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas.
The City shall also have the power to borrow money against the revenues of any
municipally-owned utility and to mortgage the physical properties of such util-
ities in payment of such debt. In no event, ho\vever, shall revenue bonds b~
considered an indebtedness of the City of North Rich1and Hills nor required to be
repaid with funds secured by taxation.
SECTION 13. LIMITATION ON TAX ~\TE.
The maximum tax rate shall not exceed $1.50 on the one hundred dollars
($100.00) valuation of taxable property within the City.
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ARTICLE XIV
PLANNING
BUILDH;G REGULATIONS
A. PLANNING
SECTION 1. THE PLANNU:G AND ZONING COMMISSION.
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There shall be established a Planning & Zoning Commission which shall
consist of five (5) citizens from the City of North Richland Hills who own
real property within said City. The members of said Commission shall be
appointed by the City Council for a term of two years. Two (2) members of the
P1ann1uS0 & Zoning Commission shall be so appointed each odd numbered year and
three (3) members shall be so appointed each even numbered year. The Commission
shall elect a chairman from among its membership and shall meet not less tJ:>an once
e3ch montb. Vacancies and unexpired terms shall be filled by the Council förl~the
remainder of the term. A maj ority of the members shall c'onstitute a quorum.
Members of the Commission may be removed by the Mayor with the consent of the
Council after public hearing and for cause set forth in writing.
The Commission ~ha11 keep minutes of its proceedings which shall be of
public record. The Commission shall serve without compensation.
SECTION 2. PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PO~~RS AND DUTIES.
The Planning & Zoning Commission shall:
Recommend a City Plan for the physical development of the City.
Recommend to the City Council approval or disapproval of proposed
changes in the Zoning Plan, and
Exercise control over Platting or Sub-Dividing Land within the
corporate limits of the City and outside said corporate limits
to the extent authorized by law.
The Commission shall 'be responsible to and act as an advisory body to the
Council and shall have and perform such additional duties as may be prescribed
by ordinance.
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(2)
(3)
SECTION 3.
THE r-1ASTER PLAN.
The Master Plan for the physical development of the City of North Rich1and
Hills shall contain the Cúmmissionls recommendations for growth, development
and beautification of the City. A copy of the Master p1ann, or any part
thereof, shall be forwarded to the City Council, which may adopt this plan
in whole or in parts, and may adopt any amendments thereto after at least ,
one public hearing on the proposed action. The City Council shall act on such
Plan, or part tJ.,treof, t...ithin sixty (60) days followinz its submission. If such
plan, or part thereof, shall be rejected by the Council, the Commission may
~odify such plan, or part thereof, and again forward it to the City Council for
consideration.
All amendments to the Master Plan recommended by the Commission shall be
submitted in the same manner as outlined above to the City Council for approval
and all reco~~endations affecting the Master Plan shall be accompanied by a
reco~~endation from the Planning & Zoning Commission.
SECTION 4.
LEGAL EFFECT OF THE }~.STER PLAN.
Upon the adoption of a Master Plan by the City Council, no sub-division,
street, park or any public way, ground or space, public building or structure,
or public utility whether publicly or privately or,med, which is in conrict with
the Master Plan shall be constructed or authorized by tbe City until and unless
the location and extent tbereof shall bave been submitted to and approved by the
Commission. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons
to tbe Council, which sball have tbe power to over-rule such disapproval, and upon
such over-ruling, the CGuncil sba11 have power to proceed. The widenins, narrow-
ing, re-locating, vacating or cbange in the use of any street, alley or public
way, or ground or the sale of any public building, or real property, shall be
subject to similar submission and approval by the Planning & Zoning Commission,
and failure to approve may be similarly overruled by the City Council.
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B. BUILDING REGULATIONS
SECTION 1. GENERAL.
The City may regulate the erection, building, placing, moving or repairing
of buildings or other structures, within sucblimits of the City as it may
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designate and prescribe, in order to guard against the calamities of fire, flood,
or windstorm, and may within said limits prohibit the moving or putting up of
any building or other structure from without said limits, and may also prohibit
the removal of any building or other structure from one place to another within
said limits, and may direct that all buildings or other structures within the
limit so designated as aforesaid shall be made or constructed of fire-resistant
materials, and may declare any dilapidated building or structure to be a nui-
sance and direct the same to be rep,pired, removed or abated in such manner as they ,
shall direct; to declare all buildings and other structures in the fire limits
which they ðeem dangerous to contiguous buildings, or in causing or promoting
fires, to be nuisances, and require and cause the same to be removed in such
manner as they shall prescribe.
SECTION 2.
BUILDING LINES.
The City shall have the power, for the purpose of promoting the public
health, safety, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, acting
through its governing body, under,the public power, to provide by suitable
ordinance bµilding lines on any street or streets, or any block of any street
or streets, and to require their observance by suitable penalties.
ARTICLE XV
RECALL OF OFFICERS
SECTION 1. SCOPE OF RECALL.
Any City Official elected by the people, shall be subjec~ to recall and
removal from office by the qualified voters of the City on grounds of incompe-
tency, misconduct or malfeasance in office.
SECTION 2.
PETITION FOR RECALL.
Before the question of recall of such officer shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of the City, a petition demanding such question to be so sub-
mitted shall first be filed with the person performing the duties of City Secre-
tary; which said petition shall be signed by qualified voters of the City equal in
number to at least 25% of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal
election of the City, but in no event less than 250 such petitioners. Each signer
of such recall petition shall personally sign his name thereto in ink or indelible
pencil, and shall write after his name his place of residence, g~v~ng na~e of
street and number, or place of residence, and shall also write thereon the day,
the month and year his signature was affixed.
SECTION 3.
FORM OF RECALL PETITION.
The recall petition mentioned above must be addressed to the City Council
of the City of North Richland Hills, must, distinctly and specifically point out the
ground or grounds upon which such petition for removal is predicated, and, if there
be more than one ground, such as for incompetency, misconduct or malfeasance in
office, shall specificany state each ground with such certaint7 l~ to ~ive the
officer sought to be removed, notice of the matters and things with which he is
charged. The signature shall be verified by oath in the following form:
"STAT~ OF TEx..4.S I
COill\"TY OF TARRANI' I
I, , being first duly s~orn, on oath
depose and say that I am one of the signers of the above petition;
and that the statements made therein are true, and that each
signature appearing thereto was made in my presence on the day
and date it purports to have been made, and I solemnly swear that
the same is the genuine signature of the person whose name it pur-
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SECTION 4. VARIOUS PAPERS CONSTITUTING PETITION.
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The petition may consist of one or more copies, or subscription lists,
circulated separately, and the signatures thereto may be upon the paper or papers
containing the form of petition, or upon other papers attached thereto. Verifi-
cåtions provided for in the next preceding section of this article may be made by
one or more petitioners, and the several parts or copies of the petition may be
filed separately and by different persons; but no signatures to such petition shall
remain effective or be counted which were placed thereon more than forty-five
days prior to the filing of such petition or petitions with the person performing
the duties of City Secretary. All papers comprising a recall pßtition shall be
filed with the person performing the duties of City Secretary on the same day
and the said Secretary shall immediately notify, in writing, the officer so sought
to be removed, by mailing such notice to his North Rich1and Hills address.
SECTION 5.
PRESENTATION OF PETITION TO CITY COUNCIL
Within five days after the date of the filing of the papers constituting
the recall;petition, the person performing the duties of City Secretary shall pre-
sent such petition to the City Council of the City of North Richland Hills.
SECTION 6.
PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD.
The officer whose removal is sought may, within five days after such re-
call petition has been presented to the City Council, request that a public hearing
be held to permit him to present facts pertinent to the charges specified in the
recall petition. In this event, the City Council shall order such public hearing
to be held, not less than five days nor more than fifteen days after receiving such
request for a public hearing.
SECTION 7.
ELECTION TO BE CALLED.
If the officer whose removal is sought does not resign, then it shall be-
come the duty of the City Council to order an election and fix a date for holding
such recall election, the date of which election shall be not less than twenty-five
nor more than thirty-five days from the date such petition was presented to the
City Council) or from the date of the public hearing if one was held.
SECTION B.
BALLOTS IN RECALL ELECTION.
Ballots used at recane1ections shall conform to the following requirements:
(1) With respect to each person whose removal is sought, the question
shall be submitted:
"Shall (Name of person) be removed from the office of
(Name of office) by recall?"
(2) Immediately below each such question there shall be printed the
two following propositions) one above the other) in the order in-
dicated:
"FOR the recall of (Name of person)."
"AGAINST the recall of (Name of person)."
In voting said ballot the voter shall indicate his vote in favor of recall by
scratching or running a line throu~h the words "against the recall," and shall
indicate his vote against recall by scratching or running a line throught the words
"for the recall."
Under said questions shall be placed the names of candidates to fill the
vancancy or vacancies. The name of the officer or officers whose removal is
sought shall not appear on the ballot as a candidate or candidates to succeed
himself or themselves.
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SECTION 9.
RESULT OF RECALL ELECTION.
If a majority of the votes cast at a recall election shall be against the
recall of the person~named on the ballot, h~ sh~ll continue in office. for the re-
mainder of his unexpired term, subject to recall as before. If a majority 6f the
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votes cast at such an election Þe for the recall of the person named on the ballot,
he shall, regardless of any technical defects in the recall petition, be deemed
removed from office and the vacancy shall be filled as vacancies in the City
Council are filled.
SECTION 10. RECALL, RESTRICTION THEREON.
~~o -::' ~ :.1. petiJ:;j.on shall be filed against any officer of the¡:&ity of North
Rich1and P~lls with^~hree (3) months after his election, nor witPAthree (3)
months after an election for such officerls recall.
SECTION 11. FAILURE OF CITY COmiCIL TO ACT.
In case all of the requirements of this Cbarter shall have been met aed
the City Council shall fùi1 or refuse to receive the recall petition, or order such
rec311 election, or discharze any other duties imposed upon said City Council by
the provisions of this Charter ~vith reference to such recall, then the County
Judge of Tarrant County, Texas, shall discharge any of such duties herein pro-
vided to be discharged by the person performing the duties of City Secretary or
by the City Council.
ARTICLE XVI
GE!Œr~~L PROVISIO~S
SECTION 1.
cor-;rI~UITY II;- GOVERNMEt-.."T.
Any ordinanc2 in effect at the time this Charter is adopted, and not
otherwise in conflict with this Charter, which refers to some office or employ-
ment of the City which ceases to exist under this Charter, shall continue
in force and the powers and duties therein prescribed shall be the powers and
duties of the office of employment which under this Sharter, succeeds to the
same zeneral powers and duties of such office or employment under the previous
Charter.
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SEct'ION 2.
EFFECT OF C'tIARTER ON EXISTING LNv.
All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations in force in the City on
the effective date of this Charter, and not in conflict with this Charter, shall
remain in force until altered, amended or repealed. All taxes, assessments, liens,
encumbrances and demands, of or against the City, fixed or established before such
date, or for the fixing or establishing of which proceedings have begun at such
date, shall be valid when properly fixed or established either under the law in
force at the time of beginning of such proceedings or under the law after the
adoption of this Charter.
SECTION 3.
OFFIC IAL OATH.
All officers of the City shall, before entering upon the duties of their
respective offices, take and subscribe the official oath prescribed in the
Constitution of the State of Texas. Oath of Office shall be administered by the
Mayor, Mayor Pro Tempore, City Secretary or any other person authorized by law
to administer oaths.
SECTIon 4.
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
All meetings of the Council and all Boards or Commissions appointed by
the Council shall be open to the public. Minutes of all such meetings shall
be kept and such minutes shall constitute public records.
SECTION 5.
PUBLIC RECORDS.
All public records of every office, department or agency of the City shall
be open to inspection by any citizen at all reasonable times, provided that
such police records, vital statistics records, or ahy other records which are
closed to the public by law sha1lrnt be considered public records for the pur-
pose of this Section.
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SECTION 6.
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER.
The Council shall have the power to designate by resolution a newspaper
of general circulation in the Citý as the official newspaper, and shall cause to
be published therein all ordinances, notices and other matters which are re-
quired to be officially published by this Charter, the ordinances of the City,
or the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas.
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SECTION 7.
NOTICE OF INJURY OR DAMAGE.
The City shall never be liable for any personal injury, whether resulting
in death or not, unless the person injured or someone in his behalf, or in the event
the injury results in deatb, tbe person or persons wbo may bave a cause of action
under tbe law by reason 0<- CUCh deatb injury, shall file a notice in writing with
the City Secretary w~thin,thirty (30) days after tbe same bas occurred, stating
specifically in sucb notice when, wbere and bo~~ tbe exact injury occurred, tbe
full extent of tbe injury, tbe amount of damages claimed or asserted, and a
list of persons, if known, wbo witnessed tbe injury. Tbe City sball never be
liable for any claim for damage or injury to personal property unless tbe person
whose personal property bas been injured or damaged, or someone in his beba1f,
shall file a claim in writine with tbe City Secretary within tbirty (30) days after
said dam~ge or injury occurred, st~tinß specifically Ivben, wbere dnd bmv the
injury was sustained. Tbe ?erson givinß notice under this Section shall subscribe
his name to the notice under 03tb tbat tbe stùte~ents ~nd facts contained in said
notice are true and correct.
SECTION 8.
FXEClITION, GARl'JISHHENT L!-ID :lSSIG'llr..::'·""'.
':'~~oJ?erty, real or¡ersona1, be10nsing to the City sball not be liable for
sale or aprropriation under any writ of executio~ or cost bill. Funds belonging
to the City, in tbe bands of any person, firm or corporation shall not be liable
to garnisbment, attacbment or sequestration; nor sh~ll the City b~ 1i~ble to
garnisbment on account of any r1ebt it may O";C or :cunds or property it may have
on hand or Ow ins to any person. Neitbèr tbe Sity nor any of its officers or
asents shall be require0 to answer any writ of zarnishment on any account wbatso-
ever. The City shall not be liable to tbe assicnee of any ~vages of any officer,
agent or employee of said City, whether earned or unearned, upon any claim or
account whatsoever, and as to the City such assignment sbal1 be absolutely void.
SECTION 9.
BONO OR SECU~ITY NOT REQUIP~D.
It shall not be necessary in any actian, suit or proceeding in ~hich tbe
City is a party, for any bond, unðertakin8 or security to be executed in behalf
of said City, but all such actions suits, appeals or proceedings shall be con-
ducted in the same manner as if such bond, undertaking or security had been
given, and said City shall be liable as if sucb obligation had been duly given
and executed.
SECTION 10. JUDICIAL NOTICE.
This Charter sball be deemed a public act and shall bave the force and
effect of a general law; may be read in evidence witbout pleading or proof, and
judicial notice sba11 be taken tbereof in all Courts and places witbout further
proof.
SECTION 11. REMISSION OF FINES A~~ PENALTIES.
The Council shall have the power to remit in whole or in part, on such condi-
tion as it may deem proper,by a vote of at least five of the Council members, any
fine or penalty belonging to the City whicb'may be imposed or incurred under any
penal ordinance of the City.
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SECTION, 12. OFF-SET TO DEBTS.
The City shall be entitled to counterclaim and off-set against any debt,
claim, demand or account owed by tbe City to any person, firm or corporation in
arrears to the City for any debt, claim, demand or account of any nature whatso-
ever including taxes, penalty and interest. No assignment or transfer of any
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such debt, claim, demand or account owed by the City shall affect the right of
the City to off-set the sum owed to~e City.
SECTION l3. NEPOTISM.
No person related within the third degree by affinity or consanguinity to the
Mayor, any member of the Councilor the City Manager shall be appointed to any
paid office, position, clerkship or other service of the City. This prohibition
shall not apply, however, to any person who shall have been employed by the City
at least ninety (90) days prior to and at the time of the election of the Mayor
or Councilman, or the appointment of the City Manager.
SECTION 14. ETHICS.
(l)No elected or appointed officer or employee of the City shall benefit unduly
by reason of his holding public office.
(2)Noofficer or employee having a direct or indirect interest in any proposed
or èxisting contract, purchase, work, sale or service to or by the City shall
vote or render a decision, or use his position, authority or influence in a
manner that wold result in his financial betterment to any degree. Further, any
elected officer shall publicly disclose any such interest upon assumption of
office or prior to consideration of any such matters. This provision is cumula-
tive to Article 371 and 373 of the Penal Code, and all other applicable laws
in regard to elected officers.
(3)Fai1ure to comply with any provisions of the foregoing Sections 14 (l)
or 14 (2) shall constitute malfeasance in office and any officer or em~loyee
failing to so comply shall immediately forfeit his office or position" and
said office or position shall be deemed vacant.
(4)Any violation of the foregoing Sections 14(1) or 14 '(2) with tpe knowledge,
express or implied, of persons or corporations contracting with the City shall
render the contract voidable by the Council.
SECTION 15. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION.
No person in the service of the City of seeking admission thereto shall
be employed promoted, demoted, discharged or in any way favored or discriminated
against because of political opinions or affiliations or because of race or
religious beliefs, provided that such opinions, affi1iactions or beliefs do
not advocat~' the overthrüt-l of the government of the United Stat.es of America by
force or violence.
SECTION 16. POLITICAL ACTIVITY.
(1) No appointed or hired, employee on the payroll of the City shall make
a contribution to the campaißn fund of any person seeking election to a City
offic or to any political party supporting a candidate for election to a city
office, nor shall he be solicited for tl1is purpose; nor shall he take ¡;:ct:",,,,,,
pa~t in any political campaign relating to an election to a city office.
(2) No person seeking appointment to or promotion in the administrative
service of the City shall etther directly or indirectly give, render or pay
~ny money, service or other other valuable thing to any person for or on account
of or in con~"ction with his appointment or promotion or any examination con-
ducted therefcir.
(3) Any person who either by himself or with others wilfully violates any
~rovision of the foregoinß Sections 16 (1) or 16 (2) shall be ineligible for
appointment or election to a position in the City for a period of four years,
and if he is an officer or employee of the City at the time of such violation ,~
he shall immediately forfeit the office or position he holds.
SECTION 17. MECP..,<'\NIC, Þ".AT=:RIAL OR LABOR CLAIH.
All sub-contractors, materialmen, mechanics and laborers upon any public
works of the City of North Richland Hills are hereby required to notify the
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City of all claims they may have against the contractor on account of such
work, and when such notice has been given, the City shall retain an amount
from any funds due the contractors, sufficient to satisfy such claims; pro-
vided that such notice must be given at any time after such indebtedness be-
comes due and before the Cityls final settlement with the contractor; and
provided further, that no contractor or sub-contractor shall issue any checks
on, or on account of, any public works of said City.
SECTION 18. BUILDING PERMITS.
The City of North Rich1and Hills shall have power to prohibit the erection or
construction of any bui1din3 or structure of any kind within the City of North
Rich1and Hills without a permit first having been issued by the City for the
constr~ction or erection of such building or structure, and may authorize
a fee to be charged for such permit, and in pursuance of said authority may
authorize the inspection by the City of all buildings or structures during the
progress of their construction and may require that all buildings shall be
constructed in conformity with the building code which exists in said City or
shall hereafter be passed.
SECTION 19. POOLS, Pm-IDS AN.} LAKES.
The City of North Richland Hills shall have power to control or prohibit the
construction of pools, ponds or lakes, receiving water from a recognizable
stream, creek, branch or natural drainªge. The City may control location, con-
struction, height of structure, depth and size of body of water to be impounded.
No pool, pond or lake, receiving water from a recognizable stream, creek, branch
or natural drainage, shall be constructed without first obtaining a permit issued
by the City.
SECTION 20. BONDS OF CITY OFFICIALS, EMPLOYEE, OR DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.
In addition to any bonding provisions her~in provided, the Council may r~
quire any city official, department director 2t City employee, before entering
upon his duties, to execute a good and sufficient bond with a surety company
doing business in the State of Texas, and approved Þy the Council, as surety
thereon, said bond to be in such amount as the Council may demand, payable to
the City of N~rth Richland Ei1~ and conditioned for ,the f~ithfu1 p~rformance(
~of the duties of his office; premumrn òf such bond to be paid by the City.
SECTION 21.
BONDS OF CO~~RACTORS.
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Thé governing body of the City of North Richland Hills shall require, good
. an'd sufficient bonds of all contractors, with a good corporate surety~thereo:q,
acceptable to the governing body of the City of Ncrtb Richland Rills.
SECTION 22. ÞJ1ENDMENT OF THE CHÞ.RTER.
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This Charter may be amended no more than ~nce every two (2) years as
provided by the laws of the State of Texas. ~ '
SECTION 23. CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHARTER.
In wordinc of the Cha~ter, the use of the singular number sh~ll include
tb~ plural, and the plural shall include the singu13r. : Words used in the
masculiœ gende;r sh:.l:, :nclude tre femine also, unless by reasonable Construction,
it appears that such ~-làs not tre intention 01; this Charter.
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ARTÌCLE ~:VII
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All pO~-lers granted heretofore to cities are hereby I'reserved. In c3se--of.
any irreconcilable conflict bettVeen the provisions of this Charter and any superior
law, the powers of the City and its o£~~cers shall be as defined in such superior
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I, CRAWFORD O. MARTIN, Secretary of State of the State
of Texas DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the City of North Richland Hills,
Texas filed in this office on December 9, 1964 a certified copy
of the charter to the City of North Richland Hills, Texas.
I DO FURTHER CERTIFY' that said charter to the city of
North Richland Hills, Texas was duly recorded in the Book of City
Chuters and Amendments, Book 21, Pages 278 - 302, and that the
fee for recording such instrument has been paid to this office.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto
signed my name officially and caU3ed to be im·
pressed hereon the Seal of State at my office In
th~ . City of Austin, this
~:t.b_ day of ___r~J?rt.!.ary-, A. D. 1962....
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the general laws, such provisions of the general laws are hereby adopted, and
the city shall have and exercise all of the powers that it could have acquired
by expressly adopting and incorporating into this Charter all of the provisions
of such superior and general laws, it ~~ing the intent of this Charter that no
lawful po\~er of the City shall f(111 because of any omission, insufficiency or
invalidity of any portion or portions of this Charter. The insufficiency or
invalidity of any portion or portions of this Charter shall not in any way
affect the remainder of the Charter, but the same shall be construed as if
adopted with such portion and/or portions so found invalid or impotent.
ARTICLE XVIII
VOTE ON PROPOSED CHARTER
SECTION 1. VOTE ON PROPOSED CHARTER.
(1) This Charter shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City
for adoption or rejection on November 3, 1964 at which election, if a majority
of the qualified voter votin~ in such election shall vote in favor of the adoption
of this Charter, it shall then immediately become the Charter and governing law
of the City until amended or repealed.
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(2) It beins impractical to submit this Charter by sections, it is hereby
prescribed that the form of ballot to be used in such election shall be as
follows, to wit:
FOR THE ADOPTION OF
THE CHARTER
AGAU!ST THE ADOPTION OF
THE CHARTER
(3) The present city council of the City shall call an election in
accordance with the provisions of the General Laws of the State governing sucb
elections, and the same shall be conducted and the returns made and results
declared as provided by the laws of the State of Texas governing municipal
elections, and in case a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in
favor of the adoption of such Charter, then an official order shall be entered
upon the records of said City by tbe City Council, declaring the same adopted,
and the city secretary shall record at length upon the records of the city in
a separate book to be kept in his office for such purpose, such Charter as
adopted, and such secretary shall furnish to thé mayor a copy of the Charter,
which copy of the Charter shall be forwarded by the mayor as soon as practical
to the Secretary of State under the seal of the City, together with a certificate
showing the approval of the qualified votes of such Charter.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF TARRANT,
CITY OF NORTH RICHL.AND HILLS.
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I, J'0b.J1 P. Hunter, Mayer of the city of North Richland Hills, Texas,
do hereby certify that the above~ foregoing twenty-three and one-half
(23-t) pages are a true an~ ..copy è't the Charter approved by a
majority of the qua'e , esiding within the corporate limits 01:
said city, ~ot Q~ S~ ~al Election called for said purpose and held
within t L~t-rimits of said city on the 3rd day of November, Ao D.
1964, be~ e -date theretofore fixed by the Charter Commission elected
for the purpose of drafting and framing such Charter and also the date
fixed by Ordinance No. 122 of said city duly passed and adopted by the
City Council of said city at a Speoial Meeting called for said purpose
on the 1st day of Ootober, A. D. 1964; and further that said Charter was
thereafter, at a regular meeting øf said Oouncil held within the corporate
limits of said city on the 9th day of November, A. D. 1964, duly adopted
as the Charter of said city and an off'icialorder entered upon the records
of said city by the governing bOdy thereof declaring the same adopted.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereby affix my signature in my oft ieial
capacity as Mayor of the city of North Richland Hills, Texas, attested
by the City Secretary of said city, and have caused said City Secretary
to impress the seal of said oity hereon~ on this 1.7ttIn day of November,
A. D. ~964. 2
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Hills, Texas
I, Rita Clower, City Secretary,North Richland Hills,Texas,hereby certify'
the above and foregoing with its oertificate of authentication is a true and
correct copy of' the Charter of said city as same appears of record in my office.
WITNESS M:l SIGNATURE .AND 'mE (lli'FICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this l'lth day of
November, A. D. 1964. n..,\- ~ ('~ IN\\O\\· _
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County of Tarrant J
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for The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, Evening, published by the Carter
Publications, Inc., at Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas; and who,
after being duly sworn, did depose and say that the following clipping
and for said County and State, this
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Naveml\ft .. A,P.I"", for Ih. purpo.. .of .ubm!"lng, 10 lhe. C IIOI!f!"
vot... r..ídll\1íwhhl" Ih. Corporat.. ~1I'! lI. ofc.aldClty t!\otpropc!.;"on
of adoplion Qt."II"1.lri.,.'th.lldopllol'! of the propoød Ho."./t.ule Çba~,
providing forth. ~It ôf.!rid proPC!...4,Cha,tetO....!»'nllteclby lhe
Chartet Cc¡J\\ t I...· . ~id qlly: to '''-. CltyCou~U of ""lei CIty',
furlh.rProy.¡d"¡g'*, ty'CI.rkánd/orCIt,~t~CIIty of '«I1d CIty
.hOlI,"\I~t:ìJ1. ' of the Mayor of..old Clly, moll or~.
10 beftll¡llte!t.,:CI: prapoa.d Chatl.r to .och qualiflelf voter
In .ald<:;/ty'Lfif 11'1 Ih. Tox ColI.ctor'. roll. for lhe' y-
~::~,::n ; ..~~~~ng. and d.:=::;1IZ~ !ling
...I~ City . ~'. . líIO ,.old, e . Pr.~crlbl_ ~.
.aldpoll. 'I(C!II be . .... ..., ",n for the ca,II"g of ~ollot.; proYld.
illg for .'''. '~'lfb\g of'nótice ~f ....Id .I.etlon by Ih. Clty$ecretary
.of said Cily,,-pr..cr'bi\!!J.,Iltefórm: of ballo, '0 .b.u..d¡. pr~idlng for
.tn.. maklnlJ. Clnt.ï:ä1þi~.·IÒII,bf the .. .. r.tlttl'!.' .0.' .ald ..I8CfiQ. n,.· and f"r. the'.
dellv.ry· of the._ of ballot. ".ed¡n~oid.'~t¡o" 10 t!\otDl.trlct
CI.rko' 'Tarrant Cc¡'!"I'y,T.xos;f""herprovidlng for It.. pre'~I'\'O'idn
by Ih., , Clly.:S..~y:<~'other. ~allot . bO Cft "ru:I. ~.ctlon"cord. . ....
provid.dtlyiÒW,',prò,¡l<itng f~r the call.,o..llIg by t.he C[IY.Couricllaf
.aid City of th..r.lurll' of.ald '¡."Ion; PrOviding Ihol..qld .Iection
.hall b. held tJndcOIIc ltdtd in a~oÍ'donce wllh. 'he' law.. of file $I(Jt. .
of Tna. 'or .1'h. holding of GáIÍ.r'. and Sp.cial EI.cllolll for Stole and,
Counly offic." exc.pl 01 olherwls, !"ovldecl by,Chapt.r Two,Tlt!."
of 1"- R.vl.ed Clvil$ICltuI.s of th,¡ State, of ¡ex"., a'Qll'llndêd provid.
Ing an .ff.ctive dOl. and~nl';'¡ni"·O a .ovlng e)-o"...
BE IT ORbAINEDBYTKE ,CITY ~OUNCll OF THe CITy OFNO~1f
RICHlAND. HillS, TEX"'$, " " .,.. .., ". . ...' . .
SECTlO....l: ThaI <i"p.clol .I'cllollbe, and Ih,'IIIt1!.I.tIer*bY,
eall.d by'h.CliyCoúncllo,f fh.tcltyof NotthRlch~HlllkT."..,
to b. held on th.3rc day of....ov~ber. ....t>.196.4, wllhlnth. cot1Iórafe
limil. of Ih. City of' North, t¡.hlc nd Hili." T';"III' ., for tlte . P!I~ ...
submitting to th...... gyCl....llf...ieclv !h!r..'.re.I cI.... ino WII.hlll. the..COtP. ,,"te'lm.."'..,
of. .ald Oily the..,P~Þ4JItIi>!t,of'..'o.d<Htt OI\. ". or CI.·9C III..t...ìhe.' '~... fon..cifth.
.propol.d HIIII\'IíI'RuJ.t: CII!,ne!' ~"'iltecl . by"" ~ ~1"1Qr j
of .ald City 10 lhe CIty Cou\!cll iof .ald Clly. Such pròi-ltI,C¥i' .haft
b. ."bmlll.d In Ih. follo1MI!\~ for"" '. . . '. '.., ,. ..
"For th.adoptlon of '-Ihé pr9i'_elltó>n- Rùhì Clio"""," 'II';
"4gallllt, ~.: o~opt¡,on oft'he. ..1rOl'Oìecl Ho.... lul~/Chò_. ,"
,,,. . SEcrlOtol 2., 11\ot .ald ropo.~ c Home RuhìCh'åtterCli"'bmltt
o,1.",.M. ". '
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, bn. eòpy é ottir ¡tis 'tü1ìlft111iíd '. b. 11101 ~
q"álifi.d voter re.. !thin ili,' cõrporote IImltl of ...leI CItY, ..
herelnaft.r provid.d.
,., SECTION 3, Thp!the Clty<:'.
'of, 'North Richland "illS, 'F."b./ lhe .uPá1'<'Is~ 'Of the
,M,!:yø,r ...f ~oid ,CII1:1' llÌáIl6l"'~ ailed, . ~ "pr_leI, II
;,CÔÞi\i of ,,,,dpropo~ chart.r tali. . . .... "0* r..ldl\ìg wllhln the
eoro.or",. I. imlh of.' ',0. id C. IIV.. "as. 9. óp.a" Jrorl'! I.h..... t. ax. . .t.. ollli.cto.. r.'s
Rolli for Ih.yeor .ndlng Janu..rv: 31. "'D. 19'''''· 'Fhattlichcopl" ~,
~h:~{:~b~1i;1E7r:i;:~¡!~i~~~:J~~ft~IeI!i{,t::
Ing are h.r~bvd..Jgnottclo.. ....bO.h... .~. PClIII""''Pla~.· w.ifh1n
Ih. c~rporal. limits· of .ol.,.,ØfyÜ.· ':.:'
C"oUII.lyVOli\!!I .'r.elll<l . I lid Adar...
Nllmbft..ndNom. II PI...
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was published in the above named paper on
~ctober 19, 26, ~
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Subscribed and sworn to before me, this th~
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~·,øJ''''' 5'''.¡¡mltS of thoo¢ltyofNolrth IIlehlIllitfMmì;T.><CIS.
5,Th.. foll wing penon. are h.reby appoInted 10 act a.
erat # "
¢lerlc
-MilS.. .08 HARDING
A"I.tanl Juclge
MiS. HAROLÖ L. .AENI....O
Judg. .
MRS. MARGE e, CORNeUUS .
Clerk
-M-IiS. R. E. CUSHMA....¡
C.1.rtc
aIId ,tho, . the h.r.inabov. ftOl I8d ,hall: serv. In ¡ sold . capacity. In con·
necllon with Ih. holding of Io:Id flection 01 th. polllllO' place of lbe
· .lecllon .praelnct 1n which eacl>/~ 'he~ ......ctlvely resld., .1Id th.'
,,"' of' saki ,deslgnat.dpCll'tl.. shèìlt :be q""rmW vot... re¡lding in sold
electloll ....e<IIIc/.; . ' " ",'
,:'SfC'rIOH:6j''Tof ....ort
" ' . '- "'-_'C. ,.... '~\,,(i:;'<
MRS. SAÜYH. SPe....ce
Clerk
MRS. GLeNN cAAOIT
. Ái'i"CI';iJudge. .
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oln open' ':00 . P.M.
3. A." ~...s4, dUd...,
I'll! qualified v.....r. ,who'
.old 'Jioun. Ab..",.. voting ""
OJ Ufled v.....u r~ldlng· 'AI. In .,: COl' )orcite
'dvlymCldo ond In açc""dOMII ~
r·,3Oth. "'D. .1-964. dvrllfg om..
f_ 8100 A.M. _ucI\ ajÓie",.. b.llot.... tel ICIIi...
Øf laid City Hedl . , on Ih. corner of GI.nvl.w
r v.' and Morqan ¢Irtl. in sol
SECTION 8, That the Clly Secretory of llíe Cily of North IIlèhlond
· Hills. telCOs. shaU post a COpy of thl. ·oidlrionc. In of lea.I five (5)
p~lIc ploce. wIthin Ihe corporate IImlb of th.. CIty of Narrh IlIchland
Hills, T.xci., after whl~h .h.: .holl cel'tlfV a. to the dot. and pl.,ce of
p..-lIng each of ,aid ..ple. of Ihl. ordlllallce, and lIIak, oath Ih.r"o.
.' SECTIO.... 9: Th. ballot to b. u.ed In .alil .lec \Qn' .holl b. pr."
, paiwd III Ihe manner and fo,lI'I provided by Ih. ElectIon Code of IÌle'
··$tot.' ·of Texas, o. amended. and furlher punuanl to the provl.lons of
· TI.II.:..28, Artltl.. 1165 through 1182, a. am.nd.d, of .ald Revised Civil
:Stol_ .,of tit. Stale of Tex....
',' $E«IOII/ 10. All Cluollfhtd. voter~ wllhln Ih. m.anlng and as pre-
s~by the law. of lhe 5tote of Texa. 'who hov. re.ld.d wllhln
,he cotporcit. ¡¡Fllit. bf Ih. City -of Nortli- Rlchland Hills, Texas, for six (6)
. lor 10 lhe da\8 \ of ..lei 'aleétlon .all"d h.r.ln and in lhe
exa. for one (1) y~ .prtor lhe,eto .hall b.' .lIgibl. and
vole at .uch· .lecllon. .
11, Eledioll offl..... obova named .11.,11 make and d.llver
of :IOld election In Iriplicate. one bèing relainecl by Ih.
udge. one dellv.red to lhe Mayar of' the City of ....orth
ill.. T8I<.... and ..n. to ,J.. City Secretary of :IOld City. The
i bOx conlølnlno ,h. .Ionature .Iub. from bOlloI. u.ed In .oid
s_1I be delivered fo ~he DblrlCl CI.rk of Tarran' Counly, Tno.,
and oth., !JoOòt box.. und ."Clion r.cord. and .upp lie. .holl· be pr.-
served, by the City Seerelary e. provided by law.
SeCTION 12: The Clly Council .holl m'" nol more Ihan len (10) do,.
aft.r dote of .aid .Iection for .1"" ""'po.. of canvauing the re-
.t old .lectIon. . . . . '. . .' ,
tN; 13: "Ie!, .leclion .hoff' b. helcl and conduded In accord.
tbe Low. of ' 'øte of' T.)Cos . for th. holding of G.n.ral
Ion'" for and CallntY, Offl....., .xcepl a.s other.
Chc¡p ,itl. 2Q, of the R.vi..d Civil Sfalut..
T.IIO*. eèl;.
, Tho' nee .hall" (¡nd become 1n full force
and 01. of lis' ~.Iog. and adoplion. .
If any ·..ntence, clou..; ..éllon ancl/orrro-
1. for any' ~n, be MId "0 b. ï.ncon.tituliona or
ahall . lIo! /1Ii 'any manner affecI Ih. remaining
t IOlIIa II forc. and effect.
ÁIX)' . 196.4, there
. Councilmen, p Ih. poUOg.
"0116 a,doptlon h.reof. III po". .ond
a<!opljðn' hereof.
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C).INANC. NO. / J ~
AB a_mANCa CALLING It aplCIAL BLlCTIO!i m -
BBL'Ð WITHD 'fBI cQUOIAS LIJ(ßB . 'fØ eIft
0' lfOØH 11CØLAlU> 1IILJlt ¡, 1.'IU8,11 ON THB 3RÞ ÐA Y
0' JlOVIDI1\,,,.1>. 1964. lOa ifØ P01\POI& 0'
$1JMIftIHG !O 'fØ _LØIBÞ .V'Ofi1Ø$ _mINa
WI'1'II1Ø TØ Co1\fOBAW LIMI!SOP aA D CIftTØ
per.mOl 0' AlOm. oa lOAIBIf '1'Ø ADOPTION
OF THB øorœ. .. ØLB CHA."J PBOV1ÐlHG
J'OI\ TBI paI1lIfDØ 01 lAD fIO,.aD cHAB.- AS
SU1'J!U\'T,lD BY 'J!B ca.' cOlllI8$ ION OPIA D
CIft 'to...'. THI. . . Clm. eoøelL or SAIÐ.~. rrfJ JtUR1.'ØR
f'It01'DIØ THAT THB CIftCLDK ,Aø,OB. Clft
8BCDØfty OfISAD CITY $.LL~ uøBa 'ftJI
8U,..,18IO» OP THI .1'01\ O"AIDCIft,
MAIL t)ftCAUI. '1'0 BI MIL.IÐ A con fØ lAm
no,œBD c.atllt 'l'O' IACH QUALIrIIÐ voTØ
IN UD CIft AS ",.. noM TJII'J.'A1
COLLIC.. '. ROtaLI POftfØI DAft _%MG
J'WAd 31, A .'0. 1964; DftBL:tIHIHO AND
DiBIONA'fINO roLLDG 'LACIS) HARING AØÐ
DJS1t1HATIHG 1BILBCfiON 01710- AØ/OR
O."ICDtI a.- 1.'0 HOL'Ð AD CQØUCT $AD
ELIC'fIOR J PIO'fDøO JOB !HI 'AiM11ft' BI
SAm CITY OJ' 'J.'Ø JØØlB orHOLÐINØ .. IJ)
ILBCUO'Ø J tØSc1tD1NO -rHI HOUlt SAD 'OW
SHALL . ·AD .IUIIAD onN POR \'IŒCd'f1HØ
01' .LLO'IS J 'MYDDO PO. TDfOIftR Qr
NOTICII 0' 'AD BLlCTlQN 1ft '1'ØI CIft ..,....RY
Qr $AD eIft J fDtCl.:œDIQ 'rBB ·FOØf/Ø .LID'f
'fO . aD J ntOVDDIG fO'R 'fHI MUDO AD
DBLIVØING 01' 'fIB øruttJI 0' üD øcTION,1I
AlQ) 1'OR !HI 'þ1L1VJlØ OF '1'Ø '!U18 ø BALLOm
VlD IN lAD IL1ICUø 1'0 !Ø »:r.a!.lICT CLIRX
¢¡, .ØAlf'f COUJIft þ ftDS J PUttftD novmIHG
POll THE PtUlJartAUOH BY' fJ.'JI& elK SICUTAI.Y
OF o!Øtt BALLOT JtC:)ØS AD iLlCTION UCOltDl
AI ,RQ11DJI) BY lAW; 'BarDING JOR 'fDCA.N-
vAaa1NØfi ftlCI'l't cowen. 0'1 SAID CIft
0' '!'HI 'ØfUBNI 0'1 MID BLlCflO)f J raovDDG
fHAT lAD -.acTION 'IALL . HIU> 'D CON-
ÐUC'l'.IÞ IN ACCOfdtAtlCI \fIft THB UVlO:f fill
aDB 0' ft"IU JOlt THI HÐU)OO Of QBNJWL
AKD SPECIAL BLlCftOHI POll lTATa ,ø c()U}(ft
OBICDI U.cØ'! AI 0'1'HBIW:r.s¡ ,ROV:D)D BY
a.tUft M. 'fr&'l 28 or '1'HB RBVISBJ) c.1YIL