Incorporation and name.

1. Section 1. The corporation heretofore created and now known as the "City of Wyandotte" shall be and continue a body politic under the name and style of "City of Wyandotte."

2. Section 2. The "City of Wyandotte" by such name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, complain and defend in any court of competent jurisdiction, contract and be contracted with, acquire, appropriate, hold, control, lease, encumber, convey, and dispose of real and personal property, for the use or benefit of said municipal corporation, have a common seal and change the same at pleasure and may have, possess, enjoy and exercise all the powers in this charter conferred, together with those which now or hereafter may be conferred upon or reserved to cities under the constitution and laws of the state as fully and completely as though said powers were specifically enumerated herein, and together with such implied and incidental powers as are possessed by municipal corporations in. this state, and no enumeration of particular powers in this charter shall be held as exclusive or hi any-wise a limitation on the city to legislate on other subjects. The City of Wyandotte may do any act to advance the interest of the city, the safety, order, good government, general welfare and prosperity of the municipality and its inhabitants; and may make all laws, ordinances and resolutions relating to municipal concerns and those which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.

General power to tax, issue bonds, etc.

3. Section 3. The city may acquire, construct, own, lease, operate and regulate public utilities; may assess, levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on all the subjects and objects which the city may lawfully tax; may provide for the issuance of bonds of said city for the purpose of providing the first cost of installation and connection of sewers and water works on and to property when such installation and connection shall have been ordered by the proper health authorities and to provide for a lien on such property for the money so used; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the city by the issue and sale of bonds of the city; may appropriate the money of the city for any and all lawful purposes; may create, provide for, construct, regulate and maintain all things in the nature of public works and improvements; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements, including water main extension and boulevard lighting systems; may provide for the election or appointment of and fix the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees except as herein otherwise provided; may provide for taking a census of the city; may regulate and control the use for whatever purpose of the streets, alleys and other public places; may establish and maintain a police force for the good government of the city and for the protection of the persons and property of the inhabitants thereof, may enact ordinances and resolutions and establish and enforce regulations to guard against the occurrence of fire and to protect the property and persons of the inhabitants against damage and accident resulting there from and for this purpose may establish and maintain a fire department including officers, employees, equipment, apparatus and buildings necessary there for; may construct, maintain and regulate fountains and public drinking places, including watering troughs; may do any and all things needful, necessary and proper to furnish, supply, control and regulate water supply, sewage, sewage disposal, sanitation and sanitary control within or without the boundaries of the city, upon such terms and conditions as the council shall decide; may build and equip or acquire by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or agreement city hospitals and provide for the management, operation an [and] maintenance of the same; may take all needful and necessary steps for the care and relief of the poor and indigent, delinquent and juvenile offenders, those mentally or physically deficient, and the removal and remedying of the causes thereof, and may regulate, control and prohibit the bringing to the city from any other place of any pauper or other person likely to become a charge upon the city.

4. Section 4. The city may adopt a city plan; may provide a plan of streets and alleys for the distance of three (3) miles beyond the city limits and require that all streets and alleys in said district, dedicated to the public, shall conform therewith; may provide for the restriction or exclusion of business from certain districts of the city; may regulate, restrict and limit the number and location of oil and gasoline stations; may prescribe the limits of districts in the city within which wooden buildings and structures shall not be erected, placed, enlarged or repaired and may direct the manner of constructing buildings within such districts with respect to protection against fire and to the materials of which the walls, floors, partitions and roofs shall be constructed; may establish the building line of houses with relation to streets, the width and depth of lots and the amount of all space around houses; may regulate and control the construction and size of partition fences; may enact a building and house code and may require building permits for all buildings and structures erected in the city; may regulate the planting and setting of trees, shrubs, flowers and plants and the care thereof and may exercise jurisdiction over and may abate all diseased or noxious trees, shrubs and plants in the city; may regulate the construction and the materials used in all buildings and the maintenance thereof; may regulate, license or prohibit the construction, locality, size, height and the materials used in all bill-boards and the maintenance and use of the same; may regulate and control the construction of cellars and basements insofar as the same, in any manner, affects the public health; may regulate and enforce local police and sanitary regulations, may provide for the approval of all plats of land subject to such terms and conditions as may be deemed best; may regulate and control the disposition and handling of garbage, ashes, dead animals and any other article or thing detrimental to public health or good sanitation; may regulate and control food supplies and food products; may maintain, operate, license, own and control public fuel supplies and markets of every kind; may regulate, control or prohibit the exhibition of fireworks, and the storing handling, disposition and sale of explosives of every character, including fireworks, firecrackers and firearms; may provide for the inspection, selling and regulation and control of all weights and measures and the use thereof; may regulate, license, control or prohibit transient traders, auctioneers, the sale at auction of live or domestic animals in the streets, alleys and public places of the city, auctions and sale at auctions, peddlers, hawkers and pawnbrokers; may regulate, license and control cab drivers, draymen, teamsters, taxicabs, jitneys, street cars and other forms of public conveyances, hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, restaurants, candy and soft drink manufacturers and distributors, either wholesale or retail and other business and occupations; may license dogs and other animals; may regulate the location of and license telegraph, telephone and electric light poles within the city; may license and impose a license fee on street cars, telephones, gas meters, electric meters, water meters or any other device for measuring service,  also telephone, telegraph, electric light and power poles, provided that all of said license fees shall be exclusive  of and in addition to other lawful taxes upon such property or the holder thereof.

5. Section 5. The city may define, prohibit, abate, suppress, regulate or prevent all things detrimental to the health, morals, comfort, safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the city and all nuisances and causes thereof and may pass such ordinances and adopt such resolutions as may be expedient or necessary to maintain and promote the peace, good government and welfare of the city and for the performance of the functions thereof.

6. Section 6. The city shall have power to provide for and change the location and grade of all street crossings of any railroad track; and to compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower their railroad tracks to conform to street grades which may be established by the city from time to time; and to construct street crossings in such manner, and with such protection to persons crossing thereat as the city may require, and to keep them in repair; also to require and compel railroad companies to keep flagmen or watchmen at railroad crossings; to regulate and prescribe the speed of all locomotives and railroad trains and street railway cars within the city; and regulate the obstructing of crossings by trains, engines, cars or otherwise.

Extraterritorial powers.

7. Section 7. All the powers possessed by said city may be exercised beyond the boundaries of the city so far as the laws of the state will permit.

8. Section 8. Judicial notice shall be taken hi all courts and proceedings in the state of the existence of the City of Wyandotte incorporated or made subject to the provisions of this charter, and of the change of organization of said city from its former organization to its incorporation under the provisions of this charter, and all changes at any time made in the corporate limits of said city, by the annexation of territory thereto or otherwise, and from the time of such incorporation or change of organization the provisions of this charter shall be applicable to said city, and all laws in conflict therewith shall be no longer applicable.

9. Section 9. All ordinances, by-laws and resolutions, in force hi said city when it shall be incorporated under this charter, and not inconsistent herewith, shall continue in full force and effect until repealed or amended by the council.

10. Section 10. All rights and property of any kind and description which were vested in the City of Wyandotte under its former organization shall, upon the taking effect of this charter, be deemed and held to be vested in the new corporation and no rights or liabilities, either in favor of or against such former corporation, existing at the time of the taking effect of this chater [charter], and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be in any manner affected by such change, but the same shall stand or progress as if no such change had been made, and all debts and liabilities of the former corporation shall be deemed to be the debts and liabilities of the new corporation, and all taxes levied and uncollected at the tune of such change shall be collected the same as if such change had not been made: Provided, that when a different remedy is given in this charter, which can be made applicable to any rights existing at the tune of the taking effect of this charter, the same shall be deemed cumulative to the remedies before provided, and may be used accordingly.

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