Section 2.2 Further Definition of Powers:
   In addition to the powers possessed by the City under the Constitution and statutes of the State of Michigan, and those set forth throughout this Charter, the City shall have power with respect to and may, by ordinance or other lawful acts of its officers, provide for the following subject to any specific limitation placed thereon by this Charter:
   (a)   The regulation of trades, occupations, and amusements within its boundaries including the sale of intoxication liquors and the number of licenses to be issued therefor; and for the prohibition of such trades, occupations, and amusements as are detrimental to the health, morals or welfare of its inhabitants;
   (b)   The establishment and vacation of streets, alleys, public ways and other public places and the use, regulation, improvement and control of the surface of such streets, alleys, public ways and other public places and of the space above and beneath them.
   (c)   The acquisition by purchase, gift, condemnation, lease, construction, or in any manner permitted by statute, of private property of every type and nature for public use, which property may be located within or without the County of Lapeer and which may be required for or incidental to the present or future exercise of the purposes, powers, and duties of the city, either proprietary or otherwise;
   (d)   For the maintenance, development, operation, leasing and disposal of city property subject to any restrictions placed thereon by statute or this charter; provided, specifically, that if it shall become necessary to take and appropriate private property for the public uses or purposes specifically in this 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 in cities and villages, including Chapter XIII of Public Act 3 of 1895;
   (e)   The selling and delivering of water, heat, power and light within and without its corporate limits in an amount not to exceed that permitted by statute and the Constitution;
   (f)   The use upon the payment of reasonable compensation, by others than the owners, of property located in the streets, alleys, and public places and used in the operation of a public utility;
   (g)   The use, control and regulation of streams, water and water courses within its boundaries, but not so as to conflict with the laws or actions thereunder where a navigable stream is bridged or dammed;
   (h)   The enforcement of all such local, police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with the general laws;
   (i)   The regulating the use, occupancy, sanitation and parking of house trailers within the city, and the right of the city to so regulate any house trailer shall not be abrogated because of any detachment thereof from its wheels or because of placing it on, or attaching it to the ground by means of any temporary or permanent foundation or in any manner whatsoever;
   (j)   The acquiring, establishment, operation, extension and maintenance of facilities for the storage and parking of vehicles within its corporate limits, including the fixing and collection of charges for service thereof on a public utility basis, and for such purpose to acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation or otherwise the land necessary therefor;
   (k)   Regulating, restricting and limiting the number and location of oil and gasoline stations and storage in bulk plants;
   (l)   Establishing districts or zones within which use of land and structures, the height, the area, the size and location of buildings and required open spaces for light and ventilation of such buildings, and the density of population may be regulated by ordinance in accordance with statutory provisions governing zoning;
   (m)   Licensing, regulating, restricting and limiting the number and location of advertising signs or displays and billboards within the city;
   (n)   The preventing of injury or annoyance to the inhabitants of the city from anything which is dangerous, offensive, or unhealthful, and for the preventing and abating of nuisances and punishing those occasioning them or neglecting or refusing to abate, discontinue or remove the same;
   (o)   The regulating of airports located within its boundaries and, for the purpose of promoting and preserving the public peace, safety and welfare, controlling and regulating the use of the air above the city by aircraft of all types;
   (p)   The requiring, as a condition of approving plats of land or premises hereafter laid out, divided or platted into streets and alleys within the city, that all streets shown on said plat be graded and graveled or otherwise improved, that all ditches, drains and culverts necessary to make such streets usable be constructed, and that cement sidewalks be constructed in the proper places, all in accordance with city specifications. The Commission may accept a bond conditioned upon the installation of such of the foregoing improvements as it requires within such time as it determines;
   (q)   The regulating and control of the collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish within its boundaries;
   (r)   The requiring of an owner of real property within the city to maintain sidewalks abutting on such property, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements or if the owner is unknown, to construct and maintain such sidewalks and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property in accordance with Chapter 11;
   (s)   The requiring of an owner of real property within the city to abate public hazards and nuisances which are dangerous to the health or safety of inhabitants of the city within a reasonable time after the Commission notifies him that such hazard or nuisance exists, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements, or if the owner is unknown, to abate such hazard or nuisance and assess the cost thereof against such property in accordance with Chapter 11;
   (t)   The compelling of owners of real property within the city to keep sidewalks abutting upon their property clear from snow, ice or other obstructions, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements; to remove such snow, ice or other obstructions and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property in accordance with Section 11.4;
   (u)   The control over all trees, shrubs and plants in the public streets, highways, parks or other public places in the city, all dead and diseased trees on private property and trees on private property overhanging the street, sidewalk or public places, and the removal thereof and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property in accordance with Section 11.4;