Court Opinion

ID: 9675507
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:55:53.958833+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:35.019247
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On Motion for Rehearing
On motion for rehearing plaintiff-appellant Hayden states that our reliance on the case of City of Cleveland v. Ruple, 1936, 130 Ohio St. 465, 200 N.E. 507, 103 A.L.R. 853, for the holding that a city does not have authority to operate a public parking facility is misplaced. He points out Texas cases sustaining the right of certain cities to operate off-street public parking facilities, as follows: Zachry v. City of San Antonio, Tex.Civ.App., San Antonio, 1956, 296 S.W.2d 299, affirmed by Supreme Court on June 5, 1957, 305 S.W.2d 558; Amstater v. Andreas, Tex.Civ.App., El Paso, 1954, 273 S.W.2d 95, writ ref., n. r. e.
The foregoing cases dealt with the powers of Home Rule cities. We may take judicial notice of the fact that the City of Houston is such a city through the records in the office of the Secretary of State showing its incorporation. See V.A.T.S. Title 28, “Cities, Towns and Villages”, Ch. 13, “Home Rule”, Art. 1173, “Certification”.
It is to be noted from the cases to which we are referred that the City of Houston (as a Home Rule city) may exercise only such powers as are expressly granted in its charter or such implied powers as are incident thereto or are essential and necessary to make effective the objects and purposes of the corporation. Conceding that off-street parking facilities of Texas municipalities are public improvements as established in such cases, it is to be noted also that any power to supply them must be by provisions of charter. We cannot take judicial notice of the provisions of the charter of the City of Houston generally, but only of such parts thereof which were placed in evidence. Only thereby was the trial court bound — and this court bound on appeal. If the City of Houston has such authority by provision of its charter we do not know it. We find no evidence in the record that it does have. Nor is the state of the evidence such that the authority would be implied.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.