30 - Adoption of Voter-Approved Amendments to the City's Home Rule Charter

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§ 81W Election of councilmen mgmbff, by majority. At the regular municipal election or any special election held to fill vacancies on the city council, the winning candidate for the office of councilman member shall be the one who receives more than 50 percent of the votes cast for the office. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent, a runoff election shall be held in accordance with the Texas Election Code between the two candidates who received the most votes. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 51) § 982 Laws governing city elections. All city elections shall be governed, except as otherwise provided by the Charter, by the laws of the State of Texas governing general and municipal elections, so far as same may be applicable thereto; and in event there should be any failure of the general laws or this Charter to provide for some feature of the city elections, then the city council shall have the power to provide for such deficiency, and no informalities in conducting a city election shall invalidate the same, if it be conducted fairly and in substantial compliance with the general laws, where applicable, and the Charter and ordinances of the city. § 8399 Canvassing elections. Returns of elections, general, runoff and special, shall be made by the election officers to the city council, and shall be canvassed by the council and the result of the election declared, at a regular or special meeting of the council occurring after the date of the election, in the manner and during the time required by state law for the canvassing of elections. (Ordinance 95-053, sec. 1, adopted 9/13/95; Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 52) ARTICLE X INITIATIVE; REFERENDUM AND RECALL § 84449 Power of initiative. Qualified voters of the city shall have power to propose any ordinance except an ordinance appropriating money, or authorizing the levy of taxes, zoning, issuing of bonds or notes, salaries or in any instance where a court of ro per, jurisdiction has determined that the initiated ordinance has been removed from the field of initiation. Valid etition h ll subject to adoption or rejection and to adopt ^" reject the S-wme at the polls, such power being known as the initiative. Any initiative ordinance may be submitted to the council by a petition signed by qualified voters of the city equal in number to at least 25 percent of the number of votes cast in the cumulative seven districts in the last contested general election for each district. (Resolution 2007-055 adopted 5/21/07, Prop. 53); Ordinance No. 2022-084 enacted 11/14/2022, Prop. S, Ordinance No. 2022-_ enacted 12/12/2022. § 851" Power of referendum. The voters shall have power to approve or reject at the polls any ordinance passed by the council, or submitted by the council to a vote of the voters, such powers being known as the