Unless otherwise provided or limited in this Charter, the City and its officers shall have all powers, privileges and immunities, expressed or implied, which cities and their officers are now or are subsequently given by the Constitutions and the laws of the State of Michigan and of the United States of America. Specifically, but without limitation, the City and its officers shall have all the powers, privileges and immunities which are granted by Act No. 279 of the Michigan Public Acts of 1909, as amended.[1] In no case shall the enumeration of any particular power, privilege or immunity in this Charter be held to be exclusive or exhaustive.
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Editor's Note: See MCL 117.1 et seq.
The powers of the City shall include, but not limited to, the following:
(a) 
The acquisition, in any manner permitted by law, of private property of every type and nature for use by the City in any permitted way, whether the property is located within or without the City's boundaries;
(b) 
The maintenance, development, operation, leasing and disposing of City property in any manner permitted by law;
(c) 
The acquisition by condemnation or any other manner permitted by law of any public utility property;
(d) 
The use, regulation, improvement and control of the surface of the City's streets, alleys, public ways and other public places, including the space above and beneath them to the extent allowed by law;
(e) 
The preparation of a plan for streets and alleys within, and for a reasonable distance beyond, the City's boundaries;
(f) 
The construction, acquisition, establishment, operation, extension and maintenance of facilities for storing and parking vehicles within the City's boundaries, including the establishment and collection of charges for parking services;
(g) 
The establishment of zoning districts within which the use of land and structures may be regulated by ordinance;
(h) 
The regulation of trades, occupations and amusements within the City, including the prohibition of such trades, occupations and amusements as are deemed to be detrimental to the health, morals or welfare of the City's visitors or inhabitants;
(i) 
The regulation of advertising signs, displays and billboards within the City;
(j) 
The prevention of injury or nuisance to the City's inhabitants or visitors from anything which is dangerous, offensive or unhealthy, and the punishment of those causing any such injury or nuisance;
(k) 
The prescription of terms and conditions upon which licenses and franchises may be granted, suspended or revoked;
(l) 
The regulation of all airports located within the City's boundaries, to the extent the City is not preempted from such regulations;
(m) 
The regulation of all dwelling units located within the City's boundaries;
(n) 
The establishment of requirements for plats and subdivisions within the City's boundaries;
(o) 
The regulation of fires, firearms, fireworks and combustible or explosive substances or materials within the City;
(p) 
The regulation of motor vehicle traffic and parking;
(q) 
The regulation of junkyards, including the dismantling and disposing of motor vehicles and their parts;
(r) 
The regulation of hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers and transient merchants within the City; and
(s) 
The authority to perform all of the City functions contemplated by this Charter.
The Commission shall have the right to contract with persons to furnish fire protection to property outside the City's boundaries for a fair consideration.
The City may join with one or more governmental units or agencies, to the extent permitted by law, for the performance of any power or duty which the City or such other governmental unit or agency is authorized to perform on its own.