The inhabitants of the City of New Rochelle, within the boundaries
as now established or as hereafter established in the manner provided
by law, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name
of the City of New Rochelle, and under that name shall have perpetual
succession; may use a corporate seal; may sue and be sued; may acquire
property within and without its boundaries for any municipal purpose,
in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift,
devise, lease or condemnation, and may sell, lease, hold, manage and
control such property as its interest may require; and, except as
prohibited by the Constitution or laws of the State of New York or
restricted by this Charter, the City of New Rochelle shall have all
municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities of
every name and nature whatsoever.
The enumeration of particular powers by this Charter shall not
be held or deemed to be exclusive, but, in addition to the powers
enumerated therein, implied thereby or appropriate to the exercise
thereof, it is intended that the City of New Rochelle shall have and
may exercise all powers which under the Constitution or laws of the
State of New York it would be competent for this Charter specially
to enumerate. All powers of the city, whether expressed or implied,
shall be exercised in the manner prescribed by this Charter, or, if
not prescribed herein, then in the manner provided by ordinance or
resolution of the Council.
