Unless otherwise provided or limited in this charter, the City and its officers shall possess and be vested with any and all powers, privileges and immunities, expressed or implied, which cities and their officers are, or hereafter may be permitted to exercise or to provide for in their charters under statute and constitution, including all powers, privileges and immunities which cities are, or may be, permitted to provide in their charters under the Constitution and statute, including all the powers, privileges and immunities granted to cities and their officers by Public Act 3 of 1909 as amended, as fully and completely as though their powers, privileges and immunities were specifically enumerated and provided for in this charter, and in no case shall any enumeration of particular powers, privileges or immunities herein be held to be exclusive.
The city and its officers shall have power to exercise all municipal powers in the management and control of municipal property and in the administration of the municipal government, whether such powers be herein expressly enumerated or not; to do any act to advance the interest of the city, the good government and prosperity of the municipality and its inhabitants; to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by the constitution in cities, except where forbidden, or where the subject is covered exclusively by a general law.
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;
In accordance with the authority granted in Section 25 of Public Act 279 of 1909 as amended, powers granted which are not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter, are hereby adopted as part of this Charter by reference thereto, but the city shall not be subject to any limitations or restrictions of said Act except as provided in this Charter.
The city shall have the power to join with any governmental unit or agency, or with any number or combination thereof, by contract or otherwise as may be permitted by law, to have performed (a) jointly, or (b) by one or more of them for or on behalf of the other or others, or by any other person, firm or corporation, any function which is permitted to be so performed by law by such governmental unit or agency.
In the exercise of the powers contained in Section 2.1, the Commission shall have the right to contract with persons, firms, corporations or governing bodies to furnish fire, police and ambulance services to property and persons outside the city boundaries for a fair consideration, if the Commission shall find that the financial interests of the city are advanced by obtaining payments therefor; or that the prosperity of the municipality and the inhabitants are advanced through preventing a conflagration which might spread within the city or through protecting from fire industrial or commercial properties at which residents of the city are employed.