The inhabitants of the City of Akron, as its limits now are, or may hereafter be,
shall be a body politic and corporate by name The City of Akron, and as such shall
have perpetual succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire
property in fee simple or lesser interest or estate by purchase, gift, devise, appropriation,
lease, or lease with privilege to purchase, for any Municipal purpose; may sell, lease,
hold, manage, and control such property, and make any and all rules and regulations
by ordinance or resolution which may be required to carry out fully all the provisions
of any conveyance, deed, or will, in relation to any gift or bequest, or the provisions
of any lease by which it may acquire property; may acquire, construct, own, lease
and operate and regulate public utilities; may assess, levy and collect taxes for
general and special purposes on all the subjects or objects which the City may lawfully
tax under the provisions of this Charter; may levy and collect assessments for local
improvements; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the City by the issue or
sale or bonds or notes of the City; may appropriate the money of the City for all
purposes lawful under the provisions of this Charter; may create, provide for, construct,
regulate and maintain all things of the nature of public works and improvements; may
license and regulate persons, corporations and associations engaged in any business,
occupation, profession or trade; may define, prohibit, abate, suppress and 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; may do all things
necessary to promote the health, convenience, comfort and welfare of its citizens
and advance the moral, social, physical and intellectual standard of its citizenship,
and for such purposes it may exercise any or all of the power conferred in this section;
may regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected, and may
regulate and prescribe the construction and the material used in all buildings, and
the maintenance and occupancy thereof and regulate and determine the area of yards,
courts, and other open places, and may divide the City into districts of such number,
space and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out these purposes; may regulate
and restrict the location of trades and industries, and the location of buildings
designed for specified uses, and may divide the City into districts of such number,
shape and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out these purposes; may regulate
and control the use, for whatever purposes, of the streets and other public places;
may create, establish, abolish and organize offices and fix the salaries and compensations
of all officers and employees; may make and enforce local police, sanitary and other
regulations; may pass such ordinances as may be expedient for maintaining and promoting
the peace, good government and welfare of the City, and for the performance of the
functions thereof. The City shall have all powers that now are, or hereafter may be
granted to municipalities by the Constitution or laws of Ohio; and all powers, whether
expressed or implied, shall be exercised and enforced in the manner prescribed by
this Charter, or when not prescribed herein, in such manner as shall be provided by
ordinance or resolution of the Council, and when not prescribed by this Charter or
amendments thereto, or ordinance of Council, then said powers shall be exercised in
the manner prescribed by the State law.
