Sec. 3.1  General powers.
   Unless otherwise provided or limited in this charter, the city and its officers shall be vested with any and all powers, privileges and immunities, expressed and implied, which cities and their officers are, or hereafter may be, permitted to exercise or to provide in their charters under the Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan, including all powers, privileges and immunities which cities are, or may be, permitted to provide in their charters by Act No. 279 of the Public Acts of 1909, as amended, as fully and completely as though those powers, privileges and immunities were specifically enumerated in and provided for in this charter, and in no case shall any enumeration of particular powers, privileges or immunities in this charter be held to be exclusive.