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"SECTION 5.5. CITY CUTTING AND REMOVAL; COSTS BECOME LIEN.
   The Council may, by ordinance, establish a procedure whereby City forces may cut and remove limbs, branches, and parts of trees or shrubbery extending upon or overhanging the streets after failure of the abutting property owner after 10 days' notice to do so. In such event, the cost of such cutting and removal shall become a lien upon the abutting property equal to the lien for ad valorem taxes and may thereafter be collected either by suit in the name of the City or by foreclosure of the lien in the same manner and subject to the same rules, regulations, costs, and penalties as provided by law for the foreclosure of the lien on real estate for ad valorem taxes.
"ARTICLE VI. SIDEWALKS
"SECTION 6.1. ASSESSMENTS FOR SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS; PETITION UNNECESSARY.
   In addition to any authority granted by general law, the Council may, without the necessity of a petition, order sidewalk improvements or repairs according to standards and specifications of the City, and assess the total costs or a portion thereof against abutting property, according to one or more of the assessment bases set forth in G.S. Ch. 160A, Art. 10. Regardless of the assessment basis or bases employed, the Council may order the costs of sidewalk improve-ments made only on one side of a street to be assessed against property abutting both sides of the street. In ordering sidewalk improvements or repairs without a petition and assessing the costs thereof under authority of this Article, the Council shall comply with the procedures provided by G.S. Ch. 160A, Art. 10, except those provisions relating to petitions of property owners and the sufficiency thereof. The effect of levying assessments under authority of this Article shall be the same as if the assessments were levied under authority of G.S. Ch. 160A, Art. 10.
"SECTION 6.2. PROPERTY OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY.
   The Council shall have the authority to require every property owner in the City to keep clean and free of debris, trash, and other obstacles or impediments the sidewalks abutting the owner's property and to require every property owner in the City to cut and remove limbs, branches, and parts of trees or shrubbery extending upon or overhanging the sidewalks abutting the owner's property.
"SECTION 6.3. CITY CLEANING OR REPAIR; COSTS BECOME LIEN.
   The Council may, by ordinance, establish a procedure whereby City forces may clean any sidewalk, remove therefrom any debris or trash, or cut and remove limbs, branches, and parts of trees or shrubbery extending upon or overhanging any sidewalk after failure of the abutting property owner after 10 days' notice to do so. In such event, the cost of the repair, cleaning, cutting, or removal shall become a lien upon the abutting property equal to the lien for ad valorem taxes and may thereafter be collected either by suit in the name of the City or by foreclosure of the lien in the same manner and subject to the same rules, regulations, costs, and penalties as provided by law for the foreclosure of the lien on real estate for ad valorem taxes.
"ARTICLE VII. WATER AND SEWER.
"SECTION 7.1. CONSTRUCTION OUTSIDE CORPORATE LIMITS.
   In addition to any authority granted by general law, the City is authorized to construct or reconstruct water and sewer lines and facilities outside the corporate limits of the City as the Council may deem appropriate, to furnish water and sewer services to industries outside the city limits, and to make such charges for the services as the Council may deem reasonable.
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