Section 1. Authority to issue bonds. 
Be it further enacted, that some of the purposes hereby specifically authorized for which the bonds of the city may issue and be given, sold, pledged, or disposed of on the credit of the city or solely upon the credit of specified property owned by the city or solely upon the credit of income derived from any property used in connection with any public utility owned or operated by the city, or upon any two (2) or more credits, are the following:
For the acquiring of lands, for the purchase, construction, reconstruction, or extension of water works, public sewers, streets, alleys, buildings, and equipment for the fire department, bridges, and viaducts, gas or electric light works, power plants, police patrols and fire alarm systems; for hospitals, jails, workhouse, and other charitable, corrective and penal institutions, for court houses, libraries, and other public buildings, public works, parkways, boulevards, grounds, squares, and any other public improvements which the city may be authorized or permitted to make; for the purchase of lands or other property, real or personal, for school purposes, the construction or purchase of buildings and equipment for school purposes, and for the purchase of playgrounds, either in connection with the schools or separate therefrom, and for paying, refunding, or removing any bonded indebtedness of the city. The foregoing enumeration shall not be construed to limit any general provisions of this charter authorizing the city to borrow money or issue and dispose of bonds, and such general provisions shall be construed according to the full force and effect of their language as if no specific purpose had been mentioned, and the authority to issue bonds for any of the purposes as aforesaid is cumulative and shall not be construed to impair any authority to make any public improvements. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)