(a) Unless otherwise provided or limited by law, the City of Burton shall be vested with and possess all the powers, functions, privileges, and immunities, expressed or implied, to which cities are, or hereafter may be, entitled under and in the spirit of the law of Michigan and the home rule traditions of the State and may exercise all powers which are not prohibited by and which are not in contravention with law. In the exercise of such powers, functions, and privileges, the city shall manage and control its finances, rights, interests, buildings, and property; enter into contracts; acquire by purchase, grant, lease, or condemnation and hold and utilize any property, both within the limits and without the limits of the city; acquire, own, and operate any utility, unless the power to do so is denied by law; do any act, including the adoption of any ordinance, to advance the interests, good government, and prosperity of the city and its inhabitants; and protect the public peace, morals, health, and general welfare and the safety of persons and property.
(b) The city may join with any municipal corporation or with any unit of government, or with any number or combination thereof, by contract or otherwise as may be permitted by law, in the ownership, operation, or performance, jointly, or by one or more on behalf of all, of any property, facility, or service which each would have the power to own, operate or perform separately.
(c) The enumeration of particular powers, privileges, or immunities in this chapter or elsewhere in this charter shall not be held or interpreted to be exclusive.
Under authority of Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, and other provisions of law, the power of the city shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following, which so far as possible, shall be exercised by general ordinance provisions:
(1) To declare as a hazard or nuisance any act or condition, upon public or private property, or both, including but not limited to the accumulation of rubbish and the growing of noxious weeds which is or may be dangerous to the health, safety, morals or welfare of the inhabitants of the city; to provide for the abatement thereof; and to provide that the costs of such abatement shall be charged as a special assessment against the real property on which the hazard or nuisance is located;
(2) To provide for the public peace and health and for the safety of persons and property by:
(a) Regulating trades, occupations and amusements within the city, and prohibiting trades, occupations and amusements which are detrimental to the safety, health, morals or welfare of its inhabitants;
(b) Regulating the preparation, storage, transportation, sale or other distribution of foods, drugs and beverages for human consumption;
(c) Collecting and disposing of garbage and rubbish;
(d) Regulating and restricting the locations of oil and gasoline stations and other establishments which sell fuels for propelling and lubricating self-propelled vehicles;
(e) Licensing and regulating the number of vehicles which carry persons or property for hire, fixing the rates of fare and charges, and determining the location of stands for such vehicles;
(f) Regulating the construction, erection, alteration, equipment, repair, moving, removal and demolition of buildings and structures and their appurtenances and service equipment;
(g) Establishing zones within the city and regulating therein the use and occupancy of lands or structures; the height, area, size and location of buildings; the required open spaces for light and ventilation of buildings, and the density of population;
(h) Regulating, limiting, and prohibiting the construction and use of buildings and lands in order to promote the public safety and to prevent fires;
(i) Regulating and controlling the use in any manner of streams, waters, and water courses within the city in any manner consistent with the provisions of law, including the prevention and control of the pollution and obstruction thereof in any manner, and the development of the stream beds and banks;
(j) Regulating the use of private property, insofar as the same may affect the public health and safety and the use of public streets and highways, and to provide for the health and safety of persons on property to which persons are customarily invited for purposes of trade, entertainment, or manufacture.
(3) To establish and reasonably control streets, alleys, bridges and public places, and the space above and beneath them, and the use thereof by:
(a) Creating and vacating the same and by acquiring land or any interest in land, which may be required therefor, which land may also be sold by the city to the extent it is not, or may no longer be, required for the purpose for which acquired, including any surplus land which may be incidental to or necessary for the purchase of land required;
(b) Providing a plan of city streets and alleys;
(c) Providing for the safety of persons and property by regulating the use of the surface of streets and the space above and below the surface for the purposes of travel in any manner, advertising in any manner, structure of any type or kind, and as easements or rights-of-way for public utility facilities;
(d) Compelling all persons to care for the untraveled portions of streets lying between the curbs or, where no curbs, shoulders and property line which abut upon premises owned, controlled, or occupied by them, and to keep the same free from weeds and from objects which are offensive or hazardous to public health and safety and, upon the failure to do so, cutting and removing such weeds and removing such objects and assessing the cost thereof against such property as a special assessment;
(e) Compelling all persons to keep sidewalks which are in the area of streets immediately adjacent to the premises owned, controlled, or occupied by them, free from anything which obstructs such sidewalks, or which makes the same offensive or hazardous to the public health or safety, and upon failure to do so, to remove the same and assess the cost thereof against such property as a special assessment;
(f) Providing for the grade of streets and sidewalks, or either of them and requiring public utility users of the streets to conform thereto with respect to their tracks or facilities located on, above, or under the streets; requiring railroads to keep their tracks, and the street surface between their tracks and for a distance on one and one-half feet on each side of them, in a state of repair deemed reasonable by the city officer responsible therefor;
(g) Regulating the speed of vehicles, trains and locomotives within the city boundaries and upon or across the streets within the provisions and limitations of law, and the stopping and parking of the same upon the streets and at street crossings;
(h) Providing for and regulating the lighting of streets and alleys, whether such lights be located on public or private property;
(i) Preventing and abating the obstruction of streets and alleys or any part thereof;
(j) Regulating the location of buildings and structures and of trees and shrubbery near street corners and street intersections with alleys, so as to provide for the public safety and welfare in the use of streets and alleys;
(k) Providing for and regulating the numbering of buildings upon property abutting the streets and alleys and compelling the owners and occupants thereof to affix numbers thereto;
(l) Providing for the use, by others than the owner, of public utility property located on, above, or under the streets, alleys and public places, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation therefor to the owner thereof;
(m) Providing for the planting and general care and protection of trees and shrubbery within the streets and public places of the city and preventing the cutting of limbs and branches for the placing and maintenance of utility wires without the consent of the designated officer or agency of the city;
(n) Providing for the regulation of the planting of trees and shrubbery near streets insofar as the same is required to protect city sewers and other city property;
(4) To undertake any public work or make any public improvement, or any repair or replacement thereof, either directly or by contract with public bodies or private persons; and to participate in any public work or public improvement under any lawful plan by which the whole or partial support of such work or improvement is provided by another governmental unit or agency;
(5) To construct, provide, maintain, extend, operate, and improve:
(a) Within the city, a city hall, city office buildings, community buildings, police stations, including jail facilities, fire stations, civic auditoriums, public libraries, and polling places, and,
(b) Either within or without the corporate limits of the city, public parks, recreation grounds and stadiums, municipal camps, public grounds, zoological gardens, museums, airports and landing fields, cemeteries, public wharves and landings upon navigable waters, levees, embankments, and structures for flood control, and other purposes related to public health, safety, and welfare; electric light and power plants and system, waterworks and water treatment plants and systems, sewage disposal facilities, market houses and market places, facilities for the storage and parking of vehicles, hospitals, facilities for the landing of helicopters and air vehicles having like landing characteristics, and any other structure or facility which is devoted to or intended for public purposes within the scope of the powers of the city;
(6) Acquiring by purchase, gift, condemnation, lease or otherwise, real and personal property and interests in property either within or without the corporate limits of the city, for any public use or purpose within the scope of its powers, including, but not by way of limitation, the uses and purposes set forth in this section;
(7) Receiving and holding any property, whether real, personal or intangible, in trust for city hospital, library, park, cemetery or any other municipal purpose, and applying the same to the execution of such trust.