§ 14 — Purpose and effect of Article

Sec. 14. - Purpose and effect of Article.

This Article V, as presently amended, is proposed and designed to accomplish an overall plan for the improvement of the government of the City of Houston. To this end, this amendment changes methods of election of members of the Council; permits groups of candidates to associate themselves under ticket designations; confirms the respective present powers and duties of the Mayor and City Councilmen as presently prescribed; and provides that all present provisions of the Charter, relating to elective officers and appointive officers, their powers and duties, the method of their election or appointment, the Council procedure and rules, and the provisions for initiative, referendum and recall shall remain as they presently read without any amendment or addition of any sort unless amended or repealed by this very amendment. Any provision of any amendment submitted to election at the same election at which this amendment is adopted, in conflict with the terms of this amendment, shall be subject to the terms of Section 19, Article IX of the existing Charter; and this provision shall be liberally construed to the end that no changes in the Charter shall be adopted not encompassed within the plan of this amendment. (Added by amendment August 16, 1955)