Section 1. Purposes. Private property, whether within or without the City limits, may be purchased, condemned or appropriated for public use for the purpose of opening, widening, altering or extending streets, alleys, and avenues; for the construction of bridges, parkways, markets and market places, sewers, drains and water courses, libraries, public cemeteries, sewage disposal, water supply, water mains, water works, and for the protection thereof, or any necessary lawful public use not specifically enumerated herein.
Section 2. Proceed Under General Law. If it shall become necessary to condemn or appropriate private property for the public uses or purposes specified in the preceding section, the right to occupy and hold the same, and the ownership therein and thereto may be acquired by the City in the manner and with like effect as provided by the general laws of this State relating to the taking of private property for public use, as provided by Section 10 of Chapter 14 of this Charter.
Section 3. Resolution and Procedure. Whenever the Council shall have decided that a public improvement is necessary, and shall have declared that they deem it necessary to take private property, describing it, for such public improvement designating it and that the improvement is for the use and benefit of the Municipality, they shall, by resolution, direct the Mayor to institute the necessary proceedings in behalf of the Municipality before the proper court, to carry out the object of the resolution in regard to taking private property by the City for such public use.