ARTICLE I. - BASIC PROVISIONS
Part of the Code of Ordinances of East Providence, RI.
The text
Sec. 1-1. - City status.#
The people of the town of East Providence, within the corporate limits as not established or as hereafter established in the manner provided by law, shall continue to be a municipal corporation, and in order to secure the right of self-government in all local matters pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, do adopt and establish this City Charter under the name of the City of East Providence.
Sec. 1-2. - Form of government.#
The municipal government provided by this Charter shall be known as the Mayor-Council government. Pursuant to its provisions and subject only to the limitations imposed by the state constitution and by this Charter, all powers of the City shall be vested in a chief executive to be known as the Mayor and a legislative body to be known as the City Council.
Sec. 1-3. - Powers of city.#
The City shall have all the powers granted to cities by the home rule and other provisions of the constitution and general laws of this state together with all such additional powers as hereafter may be granted to the City by the laws of the state, together with all the implied powers necessary to carry into execution the powers granted. The City may acquire property within or without its corporate limits for any City purpose, in fee simple or any lesser interest or estate, by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation, and may sell, lease, mortgage, hold, manage and control such property as its interests may require; and, except as prohibited by the constitution of this state or restricted by this Charter, the City shall and may exercise 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 deemed to be exclusive, and in addition to the powers enumerated therein or implied thereby, or appropriate to the exercise of such powers, it is intended that the City shall have and may exercise all powers which, under the constitution of this state, it would be competent for this Charter specifically to enumerate. Furthermore, all laws relating to the Town of East Providence are hereby superseded to the extent that the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this Charter, except such laws as are enacted in accordance with powers reserved to the general assembly by the constitution of the state.