The city shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which the constitutions, statutes, and common law of the United States and of this state expressly or impliedly grant or allow municipalities, including those rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which a city can exercise upon specifically accepting them or upon being granted the power to exercise them by the people of the city or the legislature of the state, as fully as though this Charter expressly stated each of those rights, powers, privileges, and immunities, and as though each of them had been specifically accepted by the city or granted to it by the people of the city or by the legislature of the state.

The following shall be deemed a part of the general powers conferred upon the city by this Charter:

(1) Property. To acquire property within or without the corporate limits of the city for any city purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, or eminent domain: and to sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage and control such property as the interests of the city require.

(2) Indebtedness. To borrow money within the limits prescribed by general laws. To issue and sell general obligation bonds of the city and to pledge the revenues from city operated utilities and other property for the payment of principal and interest upon such bonds.

(3) Public Services. To purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain, and operate or lease public utilities as herein defined, but only after having first obtained the consent of a majority of the qualified electors of the city to do so; to furnish all local public services, either within or without the corporate limits of the city; to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, within or without the corporate limits, property necessary for any such purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by general laws for the protection of other communities; and to grant local public utility franchises, and to regulate the exercise of such franchises. The term “public utilities” as used in this Charter shall mean and include any plant, equipment or organization used or intended to be used to produce, transmit, deliver or furnish heat, light, water, communications or power or sewage facilities or any or all of them, directly or indirectly to or for the public.

(4) Police. Licensing and Taxing Power. To adopt and enforce within the corporate limits of the city, local police, sanitary and other similar regulations for the benefit of the public, and to license, tax, and regulate for the purpose of city revenue all such businesses, callings, occupations, trades and employments as the city council may require to be licensed or taxed and are not prohibited by the laws of Oregon.

(5) General Welfare. To adopt such laws and regulations as are necessary to provide for the general welfare of the public, including provisions for the maintenance and operations of the existing fire department, street department, water department and sewer department.

In this Charter no mention of a particular power shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers which the city would have if the particular power were not mentioned. The Charter shall be liberally construed to the end that the city may have all powers necessary or convenient for the conduct of its municipal affairs, including all powers that cities may assume pursuant to state laws and to the municipal home rule provisions of the state constitution.

The manner in which the city shall exercise a right, power, privilege, or immunity, where not prescribed by this Charter, shall be in the manner prescribed by ordinance, and where not prescribed by this Charter or by ordinance, then in the manner prescribed by the statutes of the State of Oregon.