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.
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.