§ 2. General enumeration of powers.

(a)

The city council shall have power to enact and to enforce all ordinances and take other action as necessary to protect life, health, property and the public welfare, and to accomplish any public purpose; to prevent and summarily abate and remove nuisances; to preserve and promote good government, order, security, amusement, recreation, trade and economic development, peace prosperity and the general welfare of said city and its inhabitants; to exercise any and all municipal powers necessary to the complete and efficient management and control of municipal property and the affairs of said city; to exercise all powers that may be conducive to the public welfare, happiness, prosperity and to accomplish any public purpose of the city and its inhabitants and to enact and enforce any and all ordinances upon any subject, provided that no such ordinance shall be enacted inconsistent with the provisions of this charter or the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas; and provided further that the specification of particular powers shall never be construed as a limitation upon the general powers herein granted, it being intended by this charter to grant and bestow upon the city and the inhabitants thereof full power of local government to accomplish any public purpose, and having and exercising all powers of municipal government, not inconsistent with this charter or the Constitution or general laws of the State of Texas, giving and granting to it and its inhabitants all powers that are or hereafter may be granted to municipalities of any class by the Constitution or laws of the State of Texas and all such powers, whether expressed or implied shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter or when not prescribed herein, as shall be provided by ordinance.

(b)

In addition to the powers enumerated in this charter, implied thereby or appropriate to the exercise thereof, the city may have and may exercise in the manner herein provided all other powers necessary or useful to accomplish any public purpose, that are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, and that it would have been competent for this charter to specifically enumerate.