The City shall have all the powers, functions, rights, privileges, franchises, and immunities granted to cities by the State Constitution and law and all implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted. Except as prohibited by the State Constitution and law, the City shall have all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, franchises, and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever.
The City shall have power to adopt a corporate seal and to alter it at pleasure, to sue and 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 to hold, maintain, improve, enlarge, manage, control, operate, lease, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of, such property as its interests may require, including public utilities, works and ways. It shall have power to issue bonds in the manner and within the limitations prescribed by the State Constitution and law. It shall have the power, within the limits prescribed by the State Constitution and law, 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, consistent with the State Constitution and law, for the proper organization and functioning of City government, for the preservation and enforcement of good government and order, for the protection and benefit of trade and commerce, for the protection of health, life, safety, 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 and law. The City shall have the power to engage directly or indirectly in advocacy calculated to influence legislative and administrative matters at all levels of government.
The enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not be deemed to be exclusive or limiting; and in addition to the powers enumerated herein or implied hereby, the City shall have all powers which, under the State Constitution and law, it would be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate.
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.