The inhabitants of the Town of Bridgeton within the corporate limits as now established, shall continue to be a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the name of the City of Bridgeton.
The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be of the type generally known as a Mayor-Council government. All powers of the City shall be vested in the Mayor and Councilmen subject only to the limitations imposed by the Constitution of the State of Missouri and this Charter, except as hereinafter otherwise specified.
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. The City may exercise all municipal powers, functions, privileges, rights, 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 City 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 part of this Charter; 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 (1) or more such powers as to any one (1) or more such objects or any one (1) or more such purposes.
The City may exercise any of its powers or perform any of its functions and may participate in the financing thereof, jointly or in cooperation, by contract or otherwise, with the State of Missouri, or subdivisions thereof, or any other City or public body, or agencies thereof, or the United States or any agency thereof.