[R.O. 1996 § C-11.1]
The City Council shall have 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, or Cities of the Third or Fourth Class, or of any population group, and which any such Cities are now or may hereafter be permitted by law to license, tax and regulate.