The said City, as such, shall have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire property in fee simple or lesser interest or estate by purchase, gift, bequest, devise, condemnation, appropriation, or lease with privilege to purchase, for any municipal purpose, including ways, public parking grounds, parks, recreational grounds, which shall be deemed to include the use of such grounds for amusements and all athletic sports and educational activities; may sell, lease, hold, manage, and control such property, and may make any and all rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution which may be deemed proper or which may be required to properly regulate and control all property used for public or any of the aforesaid purposes; or to carry out fully the provisions of any conveyance, deed, or will, in relation to any gift, devise, or bequest or the provision of any lease by which is acquired property or according to the judgment of any court, in the condemnation of property for any purpose; may acquire, construct, own, lease, operate, and regulate public utilities; may acquire, own, and operate gravel pits, sand pits, and asphalt plants for the manufacturing of paving materials; may regulate and control food, food supplies, and food products; maintain, operate, license, own, and control public fuel supplies and markets of every kind; may regulate and control the storing, handling, disposing, and sale of explosives of every character; the construction of cellars and basements so far as the same in any manner affects the public health; may take all needful and necessary steps for the care and relief of the poor and indigent, delinquent, and juvenile offenders, those mentally or physically deficient, and the removal and remedying of the causes thereof; may adopt a City plan; may provide a plan of streets and alleys for a distance of three miles beyond the City limits and require that all streets and alleys in said district dedicated to the public, shall conform therewith; may provide for the restriction or exclusion of business from certain districts of the City; may establish the building line of houses with relation to streets; the width and depth of lots; the amount of air space around houses; may enact a building and housing code and may require building permits for all buildings or structures erected in the City; may regulate the planting and setting of trees, shrubs, flowers, or plants and the care thereof; may exercise jurisdiction over all diseased or noxious trees, shrubs, and plants; may provide for taking a census of the City; may assess, levy, and collect taxes for general and special purposes on all the subjects or objects which the City may lawfully tax; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the City by the issue and sale of bonds or notes of the City; may appropriate the money of the City for any and all lawful purposes; may create, provide for, construct, regulate, and maintain all things in the nature of public works and improvements; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements; may define, prohibit, abate, suppress, regulate, or prevent all things detrimental to the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience, and welfare of the inhabitants of the City, and all nuisances and causes thereof; may regulate the construction, height, and the material used in all buildings and the maintenance and occupancy thereof; may regulate, license, or prohibit the construction, location, size, height, and the materials used in all billboards and the maintenance and use of the same; may provide for the regulation and control of all weights and measures and the use thereof; may regulate, license, control, and prohibit the sale or peddling of goods, wares, merchandise, or any kind of property by persons going about from place to place in the City for that purpose; may regulate, license, and control cab drivers, draypersons, teamsters, taxicabs, jitneys, and other forms of conveyance; may regulate, license, and control hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, restaurants, candy and soft drinks manufacturers and distributors, either wholesale or retail, and other business and occupations; may regulate the location of and license telegraph, telephone, and electric light poles within the City; may construct, maintain, and regulate fountains and public drinking places, including watering troughs; may license dogs and other animals; may regulate and control the use, for whatever purpose, of the streets, alleys, and other public places; may create, establish, combine, organize, and abolish officers and departments, provided, that said City shall not abolish the office of City Manager; provide for the election and appointment of and fix the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees, except as herein otherwise provided; may make and enforce local police and sanitary regulations; may provide for the issuance of bonds of said City for the purpose of providing the first cost of installation and connection of sewers and water works on and to property when such installation and connections shall have been ordered by the proper health authorities, and to provide for a lien on such property for the money so used; may license and impose a license fee on street cars, telephone, gas meters, electric meters, water meters, or any other device for measuring service, also telephone, telegraph, electric light, and power poles and wires; all said license fees shall be exclusive of and in addition to other lawful taxes upon such property or the holder thereof; may provide for the approval of all plats of lands, subject to such terms and conditions as may be deemed best; may do any and all things needful, necessary, or proper to furnish, supply, control, and regulate water supply, sewage, sewage disposal, sanitation, and sanitary control within or without the boundaries of said City, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission shall decide; may regulate and control the disposition and handling of garbage, ashes, dead animals, and other articles or things detrimental to public health or good sanitation; and may pass such ordinances and adopt such resolutions as may be deemed expedient or necessary to maintain and promote the peace, good government, and welfare of the City and for the performance of the functions thereof; may build and equip or acquire by purchase, gift, bequest, devise, or agreement, city hospitals, and provide for the management, operation, and maintenance of the same; may exercise all powers which now or hereafter it would be competent for this Charter to enumerate as fully and completely as though said powers were specifically enumerated herein; and no enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall be held as exclusive or in any wise a limitation on said City to legislate on other subjects; and all such powers, whether expressed or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner as shall be provided by ordinance, resolution, or the general laws of the State.
The City shall have power to provide for and change the location and grade of all street crossings of any railroad track; and to compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower their railroad tracks to conform to street grades which may be established by the City from time to time; and to construct street crossings in such manner and to keep them in repair, and should the railroad company or street railway company fail to repair such crossing within a reasonable time, the City Commission shall have authority under this section, to make such repairs and charge the expense thereof against the railroad company or street railway company, and enforce collection thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction by suit; also to require and compel railroad companies and street railway companies to keep flagpersons or watchpersons at railroad crossings; to regulate and prescribe the speed of all locomotives and railroad trains and street railway cars within the City; and regulate the obstructing of crossings by trains, engines, cars, or otherwise.
(a)
The said corporation of the City of Royal Oak shall succeed to, own, possess, and control all the books, records, documents, and all the property, real, personal, or mixed, and all the rights, privileges, franchises, powers, and immunities now belonging to and possessed and enjoyed by the municipal corporation heretofore known as the "Village of Royal Oak" at the time of its incorporation as a City shall be incorporated under this Charter and shall continue in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the legislative body of the City or in such manner as may be provided for in this Charter.
(b)
Shall be subject to and liable for all the legal debts, liabilities, judgments, bonds, notes, and other legal obligations for which the "Village of Royal Oak" was liable at the time of its incorporation as a city.
All by-laws, resolutions, and ordinances, in force in the "Village of Royal Oak" when the same was incorporated as a city and in accordance herewith, shall continue in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the City Commission, or in such manner as may be provided for in this Charter.
