The Municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to enter upon, appropriate, take, use, occupy, injure, or destroy private lands, property, or material, wherever situate, for any legal and valid Municipal purpose. All such action shall be provided by ordinance and just compensation shall be made and secured as provided by general law.
The Municipality shall have no authority to grant to others, by franchise, contract, or otherwise, its power and right of eminent domain.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Charter Section 109 was repealed by the electorate on November 5, 2002.)