The City Council shall have the power to acquire by condemnation, dedication, or otherwise
for any municipal purpose, lands within or without the City, for and to lay out, open,
widen, and extend streets, alleys, avenues, bridge approaches, parks and public grounds,
and to establish the grade and width of such streets, alleys and avenues, and to change
the same; and to acquire by condemnation or otherwise easements for slopes, cuts and
fills; by condemnation or otherwise to extend or widen any street, alley, or highway,
over or across or to construct any sewer under or through, any railroad track, right
of way or land of any railroad or other corporation, and to acquire by condemnation
or otherwise, the right to take, use or divert water from any lake, stream, or water
course for water supply of said City, and to acquire by condemnation or otherwise,
the right to take or use lands for airways or airports. The City shall not be limited
to the acquisition of property for the purposes herein expressed, but may acquire
property or easements by condemnation or otherwise for any municipal purpose, in the
manner provided by M.S.A. Ch. 117 or its amendment, and shall be paid out of the general funds in the City Treasury.
