The City of Tishomingo, Oklahoma within the corporate limits as now established or as hereafter may be established shall continue to be a municipal body politic and corporate in perpetuity under the name of the “City of Tishomingo, Oklahoma.” It shall succeed to and posses all the property, rights privileges, franchises, powers and immunities now belonging to the corporation known as the Town of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; and shall be liable for all debts and other obligations for which the corporation is legally bound at the time this charter goes in effect.
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The municipal government provided by this charter shall be known as the “council-mayor government.” All powers of the city shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter, or if the manner is not thus prescribed, then in such manner as the council may prescribe by ordinance.
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A. 
The city shall have all powers, functions, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities granted to cities by the state constitution and law, and all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted. Except as prohibited by the state constitution or law, the city shall have all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities of every form and nature whatsoever.
B. 
The city shall have power to adopt a corporate seal and to alter it at pleasure, to sue and to be sued, and to make contracts. It shall have power to acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any city purpose including public utilities, works and ways, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation or other legal means; and hold, maintain, improve, enlarge, manage, control, operate, lease, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of, such property as its interest may require, convey, or otherwise dispose of, such property as its interest may require, including public utilities works and ways. It shall have power to incur indebtedness and to issue bonds within the limitations prescribed by the state constitution. It shall have power to accept and administer federal and state grants-in-aid and to do everything necessary to accomplish the purpose or purposes for which such grants may be made. It shall have power to ordain and to enforce local legislation for the proper organization and functioning of the city government, for the preservation and enforcement of good government and order, for the protection of health. Life, morals and property, for the prevention, summary abatement and removal of nuisances and otherwise for the promotion of the common welfare. It shall have power to grant, extend and renew franchises in accordance with the state constitution.
C. 
The enumeration or mention of particular powers by this charter shall not be deemed to be exclusive or limiting; and in addition to the powers enumerated or mentioned herein implied hereby, the city shall all powers which, under the state constitution and law, it would be competent fur this charter specifically to enumerate or mention.
D. 
Provisions of state law relating to matters which may be regulated by cities operating under charters, shall be in effect only insofar as they are applicable and are not superseded by this charter or by ordinance.
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