City Charter

PREAMBLE

We, the people of the City of New Orleans and Parish of Orleans, trusting in God and grateful for the freedoms we enjoy, do ordain, establish, approve, and adopt this Home Rule Charter through which the City of New Orleans intends to possess and exercise the broadest rights, powers, privileges and authority of self-government permitted under the Constitution and laws of the State, pursuant to Section 22 of Article XIV of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1921, as amended by Act 551 of 1950 and as continued by all appropriate Sections of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana of 1974, particularly but not exclusively Sections 4 and 6 of Article VI.