Be it further enacted, that said municipal corporation, in addition to the powers, rights and authority vested in it by the preceding articles and sections shall have the power by ordinance where expressly so provided, otherwise by resolution.
(1) Taxes. To assess as hereinafter provided and to levy and collect taxes for all general and special purposes on all lands or interests therein, other subjects or objects of taxation and privileges taxable by law for state, county, or city purposes, but no privilege tax shall be levied or collected in excess of the amount fixed by the laws of the state so taxing such privileges for state purposes, and said city shall not exempt from taxation any property not exempt from state taxes.
(2) Classification in taxation. To adopt such classifications of the subjects and objects of taxation as may not be contrary to law.
(3) Special assessments. To make special assessments for local improvements.
(4) Contracts. To contract and be contracted with.
(5) Borrow money. To anticipate the annual revenue by borrowing money to meet the payments of interest on the bonded debt of the city or other budgeted obligations which shall promptly be repaid out of such tax collections.
(6) Refunding bonds. To issue and exchange, sell, pledge, or in any manner dispose of negotiable or nonnegotiable interest bearing or non-interest bearing refunding bonds and fix the interest rate and maturity date thereof to refinance or extend the existing bonded indebtedness of the city, upon the credit of 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 solely upon the credit of the proceeds of special assessments for local improvements, or upon any two (2) or more such credits.
(7) New bonds, issuance. To issue and sell any new interest bearing or non-interest bearing bonds for any purposes permitted by this charter or permitted by the general law, to fix the interest rate and maturity dates of such bonds and to issue the same upon the credit of 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 solely upon the credit of the proceeds of special assessments for local improvements, or upon any two (2) or more such credit, provided, however, that no ordinance providing for the issuance of any such new bonds, except bonds issued under Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 7-32-101 - 7-32-141, and refunding bonds, shall be valid unless and until approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Crossville voting at an election on the specific question of issuing such bonds, to be called, advertised and held in the same manner in which general municipal elections are required to be held under this charter. In such election it shall not be necessary to submit to the voters any other question than the maximum amount, the maximum interest rate and the purpose or purposes of the bonds proposed to be issued. No bonds shall be issued under this section in such an aggregate amount, including outstanding bonds, as will create or increase the total bonded indebtedness of the city more than ten percent (10%) of the assessed valuation for the preceding year of the taxable property in said city; provided, however, that any bonds or securities redeemable and payable out of funds derived from special assessments for public improvements or any bonds or other obligations issued for supplying such municipality and its inhabitants with water, artificial light, heat or power, where the works for supplying the same shall be owned and controlled by such municipality, shall not be included in the debt of said city, within the limitations of this section.
(8) Money expended. To expend the money of the city for all lawful purposes.
(9) Acquisition and disposition of property. To acquire or receive and hold, maintain, improve, sell, lease, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of property, real or personal, and any estate or interest therein, within or without the city or state.
However, any proposed sale, exchange, or lease for a term of more than two (2) years, of city owned real property, water rights or franchise rights must receive prior approval of a majority of the qualified voters of the city voting in an election on the question of whether to approve such sale, exchange or lease, or not to approve if a petition signed by not less than ten percent (10%) of the qualified voters of the City of Crossville requesting such an election is filed with the City Council within thirty (30) days after publication of the relevant details of the proposed sale, exchange or lease. The sale of city owned real property for cemetery purposes and the sale of timber from city owned land shall not be subject to this requirement, but the sale of such timber must be advertised and the sale made on bids.
However, any proposed sale, exchange, or lease for a term of more than two (2) years, of the property of the City of Crossville known as "Meadow Park Lake", together with all adjacent land owned by said city, must receive prior approval of a majority of the qualified voters of the city voting in an election on the question of whether to approve such sale, exchange or lease, or not to approve.
(10) Eminent domain. To condemn property, real or personal or any easement, interest, or estate or use therein, either within or without the city, for present or future public use; such condemnation to be made and effected in accordance with the terms and provisions under Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 29-16-101—29-16-124, or in such other manner as may be provided by law.
(11) Property out of city; administration of trusts. To take and hold property within or without the city or state upon trust; and to administer trusts for the public benefit.
(12) Public utilities. To acquire, construct, own, operate, and maintain, or sell, lease, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of public utilities or any estate or interest therein, or any other utility of service to the city, its inhabitants or any part thereof.
(13) Public utilities grants; franchises; regulations. To grant by ordinance to any person, firm, association or corporation, franchises for public utilities and public service to be furnished the city and those therein and to grant rights of way through, over and across the city's alleys, streets, avenues, squares, ways and over the bridges and viaducts of the city for the use of public and quasi-public utilities; provided that no exclusive franchise shall be granted; provided further that such new franchise shall not destroy the terms of any existing franchise. Franchises may be granted for a period of fifty (50) years or less, but not longer. Franchises may by their terms apply to the territory within the corporate limits of the city at the date of the franchises, and as said corporate limits thereafter may be enlarged; and to the then existing streets, alleys, and other thoroughfares that thereafter may be opened.
(14) Contracts for public utility service. To make contracts with any person, firm, association or corporation, for public utilities and public services to be furnished the city and those therein. Such contracts may be entered into for the period of fifty (50) years or less, but not longer. The city council may prescribe in each such contract entered into the rates, fares, charges, and regulations that may be made by the person, firm association, corporation with whom the contract is made. Such contracts may by their terms apply to the territory within the corporate limits of the city at the date of the contract, and as said corporate limits thereafter may be enlarged; and to the then existing streets, alleys, and thoroughfares and to any other streets, alleys and other thoroughfares that thereafter may be opened.
(15) Regulations of public utilities. To prescribe reasonable regulations regarding the construction, maintenance, equipment, operation and service of public utilities and compel, from time to time reasonable extension of facilities for such services.
(16) Highways, streets, parks. To establish, open, relocate, vacate, close, abandon, vacate, alter, widen, extend, grade, improve, repair, construct, reconstruct, maintain, light, sprinkle, and clean public highways, streets, boulevards, parkways, sidewalks, alleys, parks, public grounds, and squares, bridges, viaducts, subways, tunnels, sewers, and drains within or without the corporate limits and to regulate the use thereof within the corporate limits, and property may be taken and appropriated therefor under the provisions of the general law.
(17) Abutting property improvements. To construct, improve, reconstruct and reimprove by opening, extending, widening, grading, curbing, guttering, paving, graveling, macademizing [macadamizing], draining, or otherwise improving any streets, highways, avenues, alleys or other public places within the corporate limits, and to assess a portion of the cost of such improvements upon the property abutting upon or adjacent to such streets, highways or alleys as provided by Tennessee Code Annotated, Sections 7-32-101 - 7-32-141, or any general law of the state, now or hereafter in effect.
(18) Sanitation charged against abutting property. To assess against abutting property within the corporate limits the cost of planting shade trees, removing from sidewalks all accumulations of snow, ice, and earth, cutting and removing obnoxious weeds and rubbish; the lighting of streets; the cleaning and rendering sanitary or removal, abolishing, and prohibiting of closets and privies, in such manner as may be provided by general law or by ordinance of the city council.
(19) Market places, public buildings, bridges, etc. To acquire, purchase, provide for, construct, regulate, and maintain and do all things relating to all market places, public buildings, bridges, sewers and other structures, work and improvements.
(20) Drainage, sewage, offal, etc. To collect and dispose of drainage, sewage, offal, ashes, garbage and refuse by discharging same into streams and rivers or otherwise, or to license and regulate such collection and disposal, pursuant to applicable law.
(21) Regulation of business, callings, etc. To define, prohibit, abate, suppress, prevent, and regulate all acts, practices, conduct, business, occupations, callings, trades, uses of property and all other things whatsoever detrimental, or liable to be detrimental, to the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience, or welfare of the inhabitants of the city, and to exercise general police powers.
(22) Limit occupations liable to become a nuisance. To prescribe limits within which business occupations and practices liable to be nuisances or detrimental to the health, morals, security or general welfare of the people may lawfully be established, conducted, or maintained.
(23) Inspection, weights and measures. To inspect, test, measure and weigh any article for consumption or use within the city, and to charge reasonable fees therefor, and to provide standards of weights, tests, and measures.
(24) Same. To establish, regulate, license, and inspect weights and measures.
(25) Buildings, regulated and inspected. To regulate the location, bulk, occupancy, area, lot, location, height, construction and materials of all buildings and structures, and to inspect all buildings, lands, and places as to their condition for health, cleanliness and safety, and when necessary, prevent use thereof and require any alteration or changes necessary to make them healthful, clean, or safe.
(26) Recreational and corrective institutions. To provide and maintain recreative, curative, corrective, detentive, or penal institutions, departments, functions, facilities, instrumentalities, conveniences, and services.
(27) Workhouse or city colony; county workhouse. To purchase or construct, maintain and establish a workhouse or farm colony, for the confinement and detention of any person convicted in the city court of offenses against the laws and ordinances of the city who fails to secure the fine and costs imposed upon him, or to contract with Cumberland County to keep said persons in the workhouse of said county and to provide by said contract and by ordinance for the commitment of such persons to the workhouse so provided, until such fine and costs shall be fully paid.
(28) Enforcement of ordinances, fines and imprisonment. To enforce any ordinance, rules, or regulation, by means of fines, forfeitures, penalties, and imprisonment or by action or proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction or by any one or more of such means and to impose costs as a part thereof, but no fine, forfeiture, or penalty shall exceed fifty dollars ($50.00), and no imprisonment shall exceed ninety (90) days.
(29) Animal running at large, to suppress. To regulate, tax, license, or suppress the keeping or going at large of animals within the city; to impound the same and in default of redemption to sell or kill the same.
(30) Bridges and viaducts. To require and compel any steam, gasoline, or electric railway company operating within said city and crossing with its lines any of the streets of the city, to build and construct and maintain all necessary bridges, viaducts and underpasses under and over the tracks of said railroad company wherever said track or tracks cross the public streets, alleys, ways and thoroughfares of said city, when in the judgment of the legislative body of said city such bridges, viaducts, or underpasses should be built or constructed for the preservation or protection of the public using such streets, alleys, ways, and thoroughfares; and the entire cost of the construction of such bridges, viaducts over underpasses under such railroad or railroads, within the limits of the operating right of way of such railroad or railroads, to be paid and borne by such railroad or railroads, and the cost of the construction of the approaches to said viaducts or underpasses to the points above indicated to be borne by the City of Crossville, together with all damages which may accrue to property owners by reason of change of grade, and the portions of such viaducts or underpasses constructed respectively by the railroad or railroads and by the city, to be maintained by them respectively; provided that the City of Crossville shall have no right, power or authority to build or require of any railroad or railroads to build any such bridges, viaducts or underpasses unless and until said city shall have available sufficient funds to lay out and construct the approaches to said viaducts, bridges, or underpasses available for that purpose to so certify such fact to such railroad or railroads, the owners or operators thereof. In order to enforce this subsection, the legislative body of said city shall cause the necessary plans and specifications for the construction of such bridge, viaduct or underpass to be made and prepared by competent civil engineers, such plans and specifications to make due and proper provisions for the safe operation of trains over and under such bridges, viaducts or underpass as well as traffic using said bridge, viaduct or underpass, and upon approval of such plans and specifications the legislative body of the city may, by ordinance, order and require the building and construction to be begun not more than sixty (60) days after the passing of such ordinance and the work to be completed within such reasonable time as may be fixed and named in said ordinance. And in case of the failure of the owner or operator of any such railroad or railroads to comply with such ordinance, it shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00), or the maximum allowable by law, for each day that it fails to comply therewith, such fine to be assessed and collected upon conviction before the City Clerk of the city; but the city may also by mandatory injunction enforce compliance with such ordinance in the Chancery Court at Crossville, Tennessee, or in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; or it may proceed to build and construct such bridge, viaduct, or underpass, charging the cost thereof, as above provided, where the same shall cross any railroad or railroads, to such railroad or railroads, or the owners or operators thereof, and recover such cost and expense with interest thereon by suit instituted for that purpose in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(31) Particular powers enumerated do not exclude others, when the enumeration of particular powers in this charter is not exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or phrases granting powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant power in this article impair a power granted in any other part of this charter and whether powers, objects, or purposes are expressed, conjunctively or disjunctively, they shall be construed so as to permit the city to exercise freely any one (1) or more such powers as to anyone or more such objects for anyone or more such purposes. (As amended by Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)