CHAPTER XII
MUNICIPAL UTILITIES

SECTION 12.1 GENERAL POWERS RESPECTING UTILITIES.

   The City shall possess and hereby reserves to itself all the powers granted to cities by the Constitution and general laws of the State of Michigan to acquire, construct, own, operate, improve, enlarge, extend, repair and maintain, either within or without its corporate limits, including, but not by the way of limitation, public utilities for supplying water, light, heat, power, gas, sewage treatment, and garbage disposal facilities, or any of them, to the municipality and the inhabitants thereof; and also to sell and deliver water, light, heat, power, gas and other public utility services without its corporate limits to an amount not to exceed the limitations set by State law and constitution.

SECTION 12.2 MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES.

   All municipally owned or operated utilities shall be administered as a regular department of the city government under the management and supervision of the City Administrator.

SECTION 12.3 RATES.

   The Council shall have the power to fix, from time to time, such just and equitable rates as may be deemed advisable for supplying the inhabitants of the City and others with water; with electricity for light, heat and power; and with such other utility services as the City may provide.