The city of Etowah, in addition to the powers, rights, and authority vested in it by all other articles and sections of this charter shall have the power:
1) TAXES: To assess, levy and collect taxes for all general and special purposes on all subjects or objects of taxation and privileges taxable by law for city purposes.
2) CLASSIFICATIONS OF TAXATION: To adopt such classifications of the subject and objects of taxation as are not 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 incur debts by borrowing money or otherwise, and give any appropriate evidence thereof, in the manner provided in this charter.
6) REFUNDING BONDS: To issue and give, sell, pledge or in any manner dispose of negotiable or non-negotiable interest bearing or non-interest bearing bonds, warrants, promissory notes or order 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 or more such credits.
7) MONEY EXPENDED: To expend the money of the city for all lawful purposes.
8) 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.
9) 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 of Tennessee Code Annotated Title 29, Chapter 16 or in such other manner as may be provided by law.
10) 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.
11) 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 that is of service to the city, its inhabitants or any part thereof or to inhabitants in areas adjacent to the city.
12) PUBLIC UTILITIES, GRANTS, FRANCHISES, REGULATIONS: To grant any person, firm, association or corporation, franchises for public utilities and public services to be furnished the city and those therein. Such power to grant rights-of-way through the city streets, avenues, alleys, squares, ways, and over the bridges and viaducts of the city for the use of public and quasi-public utilities; provided further, that such new franchise shall not destroy the terms of any existing franchise. The city commission may prescribe in each grant of a franchise, the rates, fares, charges, and regulations that may be made by the grantee of the franchise. Franchises may be granted for a period of twenty-five years or less, but no longer. Franchises may, by their terms, apply to the territory within the corporate limits of the city as of the date of the franchise, and as the corporate limits thereafter may be enlarged; and to the then existing streets, alleys, and other thoroughfares that thereafter may be opened.
13) 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 power to make contracts shall embrace the power, expressly conferred, to make exclusive contracts. When an exclusive contract is entered into, it shall be exclusive not only against any other person, firm, association or corporation, but also as against the city itself. Such contracts may be entered into for the period of twenty-five years or less, but not longer. The city commission may prescribe in each such contract entered into the rates, fares, charges, and regulations that may be made by the person, firm, association, or 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 the corporate limits thereafter may be enlarged; and to the then existing streets, alleys, and other thoroughfares that thereafter may be opened.
14) 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 service, but nothing in this subdivision (14) shall be construed to permit the alteration or impairment of any of the terms or provisions of any exclusive franchise granted or of any exclusive contract entered into under subdivisions (12) and (13);.
15) HIGHWAYS, STREETS, PARKS: To establish, open, relocate, vacate, alter, widen, extend, grade, improve, repair, construct, reconstruct, maintain, light, sprinkle and clean public highways, streets, boulevards, parkways, sidewalks, alleys, parks, public grounds, cemeteries, squares, wharves, bridges, viaducts, subways, tunnels, sewers, and drains within the corporate limits and to regulate the use thereof within or without the corporate limits, and property may be taken and appropriated therefor under Tennessee Code Annotated §§ 7-31-107 - 7-31-111 and 29-116-114, or in such other manner as may be provided by general laws.
16) ABUTTING PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT: To construct, improve, reconstruct, and reimprove by opening, extending, widening, grading, curbing, guttering, paving, graveling, 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 Title 7, Chapters 32 and 33.
17) CHARGES 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; street lighting; street sweeping; street sprinkling; street flushing and street oiling; 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 commission.
18) 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, cemeteries, and other structures, works, and improvements.
19) DRAINAGE, SEWAGE, ASHES, ETC.: To collect and dispose of drainage, sewage, ashes, garbage, refuse or other waste, or to license and regulate such collection and disposal, and the cost of such collection, regulation or disposal may be funded by taxation or special assessment to the property owner.
20) LICENSE AND REGULATE: License and regulate all persons, firms, corporations, companies and associations engaged in any business, occupation, calling, profession, or trade not forbidden by law;
21) LICENSE TAX: To impose a license tax upon any animal, thing, business, vocation, pursuit, privilege, or calling not prohibited by law.
22) REGULATION OF BUSINESS, CALLINGS, ETC.: To define, prohibit, abate, suppress, prevent, and regulate all acts, practices, conduct, businesses, 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.
23) LIMIT OCCUPATIONS LIKELY 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.
24) BUILDINGS, REGULATED AND INSPECTED: To regulate the bulk, occupancy, area, lot, location, height, construction and materials of all buildings and structures in accordance with general law, and to inspect all buildings, lands, and places as to their condition for health, cleanliness, and safety, and when necessary, prevent the use thereof and require any alteration or changes necessary to make them healthful, clean and safe.
25) CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, CORRECTIVE INSTITUTIONS: To provide and maintain charitable, educational, recreative, curative, corrective, detentive, or penal institutions, departments, functions, facilities, instrumentalities, conveniences and services.
26) ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES - FINES AND IMPRISONMENT: To enforce any ordinance, rule or regulation by fines, forfeitures and penalties, and by other actions or proceedings in any court of competent.
27) SCHOOLS: To establish schools, to the extent authorized pursuant to general law, determine the necessary boards and officers required therefor; to purchase or otherwise acquire land for schoolhouses, playgrounds and other purposes connected with the schools; to purchase or erect all necessary buildings and to do all other acts necessary to establish, maintain, and operate a complete educational system within the city.
28) ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE - TO SUPPRESS: To regulate, tax, license, or suppress the keeping or running at large of animals within the city; to impound the same and in default of redemption, to provide by ordinance, resolution, regulation or otherwise, for the disposition, by sale, gift, or humane killing.
29) GENERAL POWERS: To have and exercise all powers that now or hereafter it would be competent for this charter specifically to enumerate, as fully and completely as though such powers were specifically enumerated in this section.
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 chapter 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 or more such powers as to any one or more such objects for any one or more such purposes.