Section 3
SEC. 3. General powers.&mdashThe city may have a common seal and may alter the same at its pleasure. It may take, purchase, receive, hold, lease, convey, and dispose of real and personal property within or without its corporate limits, for the general interest of the city, condemn private property for public use, contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and prosecute and defend to final judgment and execution, actions where its interests are involved, and exercise all the powers conferred by this Charter together with all the powers implied thereby or appropriate to the exercise thereof. The provisions of this Charter shall be construed liberally in favor of the city, to the end that it may have all the necessary powers for the efficient conduct of its municipal affairs. The specific mention or particular powers in other sections of this Charter shall not be construed as limiting the powers of the city in the premises to those thus mentioned.