[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.