[R.O. 1997]
The City Council shall have the power
by ordinance to license, tax and regulate all business, occupations,
professions, vocations, activities or things whatsoever set forth
and enumerated by the statutes of this State now or hereafter applicable
to constitutional charter cities, special charter cities, towns, villages,
or cities of the third or fourth class, or of municipalities of any
population group, and which any such cities are now or may hereafter
be permitted by law to license, tax and regulate.