The inhabitants of the City of Florissant shall be and continue to be a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the name of the City of Florissant.
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Editor's Note—Ordinances annexing territory to the city are not set out in this volume. Such ordinances are on file in the office of the city clerk.
The municipal government of the City shall be a Mayor-Council government. Except as otherwise provided in this Charter, the Mayor shall possess all executive and administrative power of the City and the Council shall be vested with all legislative authority.
The City shall have all powers of local self-government and home rule and all powers possible for any City to have under the constitution and laws of the State of Missouri or which the general assembly would be competent to grant to any City of any class or population group, and except as prohibited by the Constitution of the State of Missouri, the City may exercise all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every name and nature. Such powers shall be exercised in the manner prescribed in this Charter or, if not prescribed herein, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Council.
The enumeration of particular powers in this Charter is not exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or phrases granting powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant power in this Article impair a power granted in any other part of this Charter; and whether powers, objects, or purposes are expressed conjunctively or disjunctively, they shall be construed so as to permit the City to exercise freely any one or more such powers as to any one or more such objects for any one or more such purposes.
[Ord. No. 2944 § 1, 7-8-1974]
The City is hereby divided into nine (9) wards bounded and numbered as shown on the map which is attached to and made a part of this Charter.
On or before the first day of September, 1976, and thereafter promptly following each federal decennial census, the Council shall appoint a redistricting commission consisting of nine (9) registered voters, one (1) from each ward of the City, who have resided in the City of Florissant for at least two (2) years immediately prior to their appointment, and who shall not be officers or employees of the City. The commission shall review the ward boundaries and recommend such changes in ward boundaries as it deems appropriate to the end that wards shall comprise compact and contiguous territory and contain, as nearly as possible, an equal number of inhabitants. The commission shall make its report in writing to the Council not later than three (3) months following the date of the appointment of its members. The Council, after a public hearing, shall take final action on the recommendations of the commission not later than thirty (30) days following receipt of such report. The Council may adopt, reject, or modify the recommendations of the commission, provided that the wards shall comprise compact and contiguous territory and shall contain, as nearly as possible, an equal number of inhabitants. If the Council fails to adopt the commission's recommendations or a modification thereof or substitution therefor by the date specified above, the recommendations of the commission shall become effective without Council action. Any changes in ward boundaries made pursuant to this Section shall be effective for the following regular election and for each succeeding election until changed in accordance with the provisions of this Charter.
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Editor's Note—The ward boundaries for the city are as established and designated on the maps attached to Ord. No. 2685, 12-18-1972; Ord. No. 4038 § 1, 11-23-1981; Ord. No. 5324, February 10, 1992, which are on file in the office of the city clerk.