Compare and contrast home rule cities and general law cities.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. General law cities can be any size, but almost all cities under 5,000 in population are general law cities. They have limited autonomy and are closely regulated and monitored by the state and may do only those functions that are permitted by state or federal law. They do not have a city charter.
2. Three-fourths of Texas cities are general law cities, but 80 percent of the people of Texas live in home rule cities.
3. Home rule cities have the opposite characteristics of general law cities and each must have a population of at least 5,000 people before it can seek home rule status. A home rule city has greater autonomy and may do anything that its charter authorizes that does not conflict with any existing state or federal law. Home rule cities provide a greater array of services because they are larger and because they have greater taxing authority than a general law city.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s)