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Section 1.12. Specific Powers. The corporate powers of the government of the City of Clarkesville to be exercised by the governing authority shall include the following:
(1) to levy and to provide for the assessment, and collection of taxes on all property subject to taxation;
(2) to levy and to provide for the collection of license fees and taxes on privileges, occupations, trades and professions, and to license and regulate such privileges, occupations, trades and professions, and to provide for the manner and method of payment of such licenses and taxes; and to revoke such licenses;
(3) to levy and collect such other taxes as may be allowed now or in the future by state law;
(4) to make appropriations for the support of the government of the city, to authorize the expenditure of money for any purposes authorized by this Charter and for any purpose for which a municipality is authorized by the laws of the State of Georgia, and to provide for the payment of expenses of the city;
(5) to appropriate and borrow money for the payment of debts of the city and to issue bonds for the purpose of raising revenue to carry out any project, program or venture authorized by this Charter or the laws of the State of Georgia;
(6) to acquire, dispose of, and hold in trust or otherwise, any real, personal, or mixed property, in fee simple or lesser interest, inside or outside the corporate limits of the city;
(7) to accept or refuse gifts, donations, bequests or grants from any source for any purpose related to the powers and duties of the city and the general welfare of its citizens, on such terms and conditions as the donor or grantor may impose;
(8) to condemn property, inside or outside the corporate limits of the city for present or future use, and for any corporate purpose deemed necessary by the governing authority under Section 36-202 of the Code of Georgia, 1933, or under applicable Public Acts as are or may be enacted;
(9) to acquire, lease, construct, operate, maintain, sell and dispose of public utilities, including but not limited to a system of waterworks, sewers and drains, sewage disposal, gas works, electric light plants, transportation facilities, public airports, and any other public utility; to fix the taxes, charges, rates, fares, fees, assessments, regulations and penalties and withdrawal of service for refusal or failure to pay same and the manner in which such remedies shall be enforced;
(10) to grant franchises or make contracts for public utilities; to prescribe the rates, fares, regulations and standards and conditions of service applicable to the service to be provided by the franchise grantee or contractor, insofar as not in conflict with such regulations by the Public Service commission;
(11) to lay out, open, extend, widen, narrow, establish or change the grade of, abandon, or close, construct, pave, curb, gutter, adorn with shade trees, otherwise improve, maintain, repair, clean, prevent erosion of, and light streets, roads, alleys, and walkways within the corporate limits of the city; including the specific authority to close and abandon that portion of Hoyt Circle which begins at the easterly line of Lot No. 11 of the Cora Brightwell Subdivision and extends westerly and southwesterly to the southwesterly line of Lot No. 13 of the Cora Brightwell Subdivision.
(12) to grant franchises and rights-of-way throughout the streets and roads, and over the bridges and viaducts, for the use of public utilities;
(13) to provide for the acquisition, construction, building, operation and maintenance of public ways, parks and playgrounds, recreational facilities, cemeteries, markets and market houses, public buildings, libraries, sewers, drains, sewerage treatment, airports, hospitals, and charitable, cultural, educational, recreational, conservation, sport, curative, corrective, detentional, penal and medical institutions, agencies, and facilities; and any other public improvements, inside or outside the corporate limits of the city; and to regulate the use thereof, and for such purposes property may be acquired by condemnation under section 36-202 of the Code of Georgia, 1933, or other applicable Public Acts, as are or may be enacted.
(14) to require real estate owners to repair and maintain in a safe condition the sidewalks adjoining their lots or lands; and to enact ordinances establishing the terms and conditions under which such repairs and maintenance shall be effected, including the penalties to be imposed for failure to do so;
(15) to regulate the erection and construction of buildings and all other structures; to adopt building, housing, plumbing, electrical, gas, and heating and air conditioning codes and to regulate all housing, building, and building trades; to license all building trades, and to license the construction and erection of buildings and all other structures.
(16) to provide for the prevention and punishment of drunkenness, riots, and public disturbances;
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