City Charter Section
[May 19, 1950, new sec. 9-605; rev. Nov. 8, 1966; amended November 5, 2024, effective December 18, 2024; amended November 8, 2022, effective January 1, 2025.]
- The City may establish parks, playgrounds, forests, wetlands and human-built or natural facilities of all kinds, either inside or outside the City (“recreational and natural areas”). For that purpose the City may acquire by purchase, condemnation, gift, grant, donation, exchange or otherwise, real and personal property and any interest therein, and may rent or lease property of any kind for public use. The City may exchange any property for other property which it deems more suitable or convenient for the use or protection of recreational and natural areas, and the City may dispose of property not needed for those purposes. The City may construct, reconstruct, remodel, alter, repair, preserve, restore, maintain, improve and equip recreational and natural areas.
- The City may establish, alter or discontinue programs, services and exhibits for the education or enjoyment of the public or for the protection of recreational and natural areas. The Mayor may contract with any public or private person in any matter relating to programs, services or exhibits. The City may do all things the City finds necessary or convenient to promote recreational and natural areas.