Chapter 2: Powers

Section 3.  Powers of the City.  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 powers contained herein from previously enacted Charters shall be deemed a part of the powers of the City.  The City is further empowered to assess, levy, and collect taxes of all types for any and all lawful municipal purposes.
 

            Section 4. Responsibility to All People. The City shall exercise its power to ensure the equal protection, treatment, and representation of all persons without discrimination including, but not limited to, age, citizenship status, color, familial status, gender identity or expression, marital status, mental disability, national origin, physical disability, race, religion, religious observance, sex, sexual orientation, and source or level of income.  Corvallis is a community that honors diversity and diverse interests, and aspires to be free of prejudice, bigotry, and hate.

[This section added by general election November 7, 2006.]

            Section 5.  Construction of the Charter.  In this Charter no mention of a particular power, right, privilege, or immunity shall be construed to be exclusive or to restrict the scope of the powers, rights, privileges, or immunities which the City would have if the particular power was 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 the laws and to the municipal home-rule provisions of the constitution of the State of Oregon.

[As amended by general election November 7, 2006 (section renumbered).]

            Section 6.  Exercise of Powers.  All rights, powers, privileges, and immunities of the City shall be exercised in the manner prescribed in this Charter, or, if the manner be not prescribed in this Charter, then in the manner provided by ordinance or resolution of the Council or the laws of the State of Oregon.

[As amended by general election November 7, 2006 (section renumbered).]