Section
2.1. General powers.
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 the
Constitution and statutes 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 279
of the Public Acts of 1909 of the Sate of Michigan, as amended,
as fully and completely as though these 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 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 expressly enumerated herein or not; to do any
act to advance the interests of the City, the good government
and prosperity of the municipality and its inhabitants, and
through its regularly constituted authority, to pass and enforce
all laws, ordinances and resolutions relating to its municipal
concerns, subject to the constitution and general laws of
the state and provisions of this charter.
Section
2.2. Further definition
of powers.
In
addition to the powers possessed by the City under the constitution
and statutes, and those set forth throughout this Charter,
the City shall have power with respect to, and may, by ordinance
and other lawful acts of its officers, provide for the following,
subject to any specific limitations placed thereon by this
charter:
(1)
The power to assess taxes, to levy and collect rents,
tolls, and excises in accordance with the state statutes and
the provisions of this chapter except that an income tax can
not be levied without receiving the approval of the electors
of the City at a duly called election.
(2)
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 Counties of Washtenaw
and Monroe, and which may be required for an incidental to
the present or future exercise of the purposes, powers and
duties of the City, either proprietary or otherwise.
(3)
The maintenance, development, operation, leasing and
disposal of City property subject to any restrictions placed
thereon by Statute or this Charter.
(4)
The refunding of money advanced or paid on special assessments
in accordance with Section 11.2(a).
(5)
The acquiring, establishment, operation,
extension and maintenance of sewage disposal systems,
sewers and plants either within or without t the corporate
limits of such city, as a utility, including the right to
acquire property necessary therefore by purchase, gift or
condemnation, and including the fixing and collection of charges
for service covering the cost of such service, the proceeds
whereof shall be exclusively used for the purposes of said
sewage disposal system, and which may include a return on
the fair value of the property devoted to such service, excluding
from such valuations such portions of the systems as may have
been paid for by special assessment and which charge may be
made a lien upon the property served and if not paid when
due, to be collected in the same manner as other city taxes.
(6)
The use, control and regulation of lakes, waters and
streams within its boundaries, subject to any limitations
imposed by law.
(7)
The use, by other than the owner, of property located
in streets, alleys, and public places, in the operation of
a public utility, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation
to the owners thereof.
(8)
A plan of streets and alleys within and for a distance
of not more than three miles beyond the municipal limits.
(9)
The use, control, regulation, and improvement of the
surface of such streets, alleys and public ways, and of the
spaces above and beneath them.
(10)
The securing by condemnation, by agreement or purchase or
by any other means, of an easement in property abutting or
adjacent to any navigable body of water for the purpose of
securing the privilege and right to construct, own and maintain
along or adjacent to any navigable body of water an elevated
structure of one or more levels for use as a vehicular or
pedestrian passageway, or for any other municipal purpose,
including a tunnel.
(11)
The enlarging, extending, dredging, cleaning, repairing
or otherwise improving streams, canals, and other waterways
within its boundaries may be defrayed by special assessment
upon the property in special districts specially benefited
in proportion to the benefits derived or to be derived; the
cost of service, plans and expenses incident to the proceedings
for making such improvement shall be deemed to be a part of
the cost of the improvement.
(12)
The acquiring, establishing, operation, extension and maintenance
of facilities for the storage and parking of vehicles within
its corporate limits including also the fixing and collection
of charges for services and use thereof on a public utility
basis, and for such purpose to acquire by gift, purchase,
condemnation or otherwise, the land necessary therefore.
(13)
Regulating and restricting the location of oil and
gasoline stations.
(14)
The acquiring, constructing, establishment, operation,
extension and maintenance of facilities for the docking of
watercraft, hydroplanes and seaplanes, within its corporate
limits, including the fixing and collection of charges for
use thereof, and for such purpose or purposes, to acquire
by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the land necessary
therefor.
(15)
For regulating shipping, dockage, storage, warehousing and
all other commercial and/or other industrial water front uses,
and the regulating and restricting location of boat liveries
and marinas.
(16)
The establishing of districts, or zones
within which the 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.
(17)
The regulating of trades, occupations and amusements within
the City, non inconsistent with state and federal laws and
for the prohibiting of such trades, occupations and amusements
as are detrimental to the health, morals or welfare of its
inhabitants.
(18)
Licensing, regulating, restricting and limiting locations
of advertising signs or displays and billboards within the
City.
(19)
The preventing of injury or annoyance to the inhabitants
of the City from anything which is dangerous, offensive or
unhealthful and for preventing and abating nuisances and punishing
those occasioning them or neglecting or refusing, to abate,
discontinue or remove the same.
(20)
The prescribing of the terms and conditions upon which licenses
may be granted, suspended or revoked; requiring payment of
reasonable sums for licenses; and requiring the furnishing
of a bond to the City for the faithful observance of the conditions
under which licenses are granted, and otherwise conditioning
such licenses as the Council may prescribe.
(21)
The regulating of the operation of power driven craft on canals
and waterways.
(22)
The regulating of all 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 air above the City by aircraft of all types.
(23)
The prohibiting or regulating of the use, occupancy,
sanitation and parking of house trailers within the City,
and the rights 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.
(24)
The requiring of an owner of real property within the City
to maintain sidewalks abutting upon 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 Section 11.1.
(25)
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 the inhabitants of the City within
a reasonable time after the Council notifies him that such
hazards or nuisance exists and if the owner fails to comply
with such requirements, or if the owner is unknown, to abate
such hazards or nuisance and assess the cost thereof against
such property in accordance with Section 11.1.
(26)
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 11.1.
(27)
Requiring the platting of all land or premises within the
City hereafter subdivided, and requiring as a condition of
approving plats of lands or premises hereafter laid out, divided
or platted into streets and alleys within the city, that all
streets shown and said plat be graded and graveled or otherwise
improved, that all ditches, drains and culverts necessary
to make such streets usable be constructed, that cement sidewalks
be constructed in the proper places, all in accordance with
city specifications and to adopt a subdivision ordinance containing
reasonable regulations and restrictions.
The council may accept a bond conditioned upon the
installation of such of the foregoing improvements as it requires
within such time as it determines.
(28)
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 assessing the
cost thereof against the property in accordance with Section
11.1.
(29)
The borrowing of money in accordance with statute, on the
credit of the city and issuing bonds therefor, for any purpose
within the scope of its powers.
(30)
The borrowing of money and issuing of bonds therefor
in anticipation of the payment of special assessments, which
bonds may be an obligation of the special assessment district
or may be both an obligation of the special assessment district
and a general obligation of the city.
(31)
The installation, improvement, and connection of sanitary
and storm sewers and waterworks on and to property within
the City; for assessing the cost thereof to the several properties
and making the same a lien thereon; and for the borrowing
of money and issuing bonds in anticipation of the collection
of such special assessments.