§ 2. Ordinances—Power to enact.

The City of Irving shall have the power to enact and enforce all ordinances necessary to protect health, life and property, and to prevent and summarily abate and remove all nuisances, and preserve and enforce good government and order and security of the city and its inhabitants; and to enact and enforce ordinances on any and all subjects; provided that no ordinances shall be enacted inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter, or Constitution of the State of Texas; it being the intention to obtain by the adoption of this Charter, full power of local government, and the City of Irving shall have and exercise all powers of local self government granted to the cities having more than five thousand inhabitants by what is known as the Home Rule Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas (Article XI, Section 5, Texas Constitution), and to the Home Rule Enabling Act passed by the legislature of Texas, and now known as chapter 13 of title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, and Chapter 51, Texas Local Government Code.

(Ord. No. 7196, Amd. 7, 1-22-98)