The present municipality, as its limits are now or may hereafter be established, shall be and continue to be a municipal corporation of the State of Ohio in perpetuity, under the name of the City of Oxford. Each provision of this Charter shall apply with equal force to this municipality.
Except as prohibited by the constitution of this state or restricted by this Charter, the City of Oxford shall have and may exercise all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever. The enumeration of particular powers in this Charter shall not be deemed to be exclusive. No act of the municipality shall be invalid or limited by reason of failure to enumerate a particular power in this Charter. The municipality shall have and may exercise any and all powers, either expressed or implied, which it would be competent for this Charter to enumerate, as fully and completely as though such powers specifically were included herein.
All powers of the corporation shall be vested in an elected Council which shall enact local ordinances and resolutions, adopt budgets, determine general policies and appoint a City Manager, who shall see that the policies and legislation adopted by the Council are enforced. All powers of the corporation shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this charter, or if the manner be not prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance or by general law.