Section 1. Corporate Name.-The municipal corporation known as "Kansas City," comprising the inhabitants of all that district of country embraced, within the limits prescribed in the next succeeding section hereof, and any extension of said limits hereafter made, shall be and continue a body politic and corporate by the name and style of Kansas City, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in any courts of law and equity and in all actions what soever; Corporate Seal.-Authority to Purchase, Hold and Dispose of Property-To Receive Bequests, Etc.-Powers of Eminent Domain.-May make and use a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; may acquire by gift, devise, bequest, purchase, lease, condemnation proceedings, or otherwise, and hold and use lands or other property, either within or outside of the corporate limits of the city, for water works to supply the city and its inhabitants, or any person, firm or corporation, with water; for gas works and other works and plants for the supplying of the city and its inhabitants, or any person, firm or corporation, with light, heat and power, refrigeration and cold storage, or any of them; for public parks, cemeteries, crematories, penal and charitable institutions, or any of them; for hospitals, quarantine stations, markets, wharves, dikes, revetments, engine houses, fire stations, depots, terminals, tracks, rights of way for sewers, sewage reduction plants and devices, conduits, pipe lines, pole lines, telegraph or telephone lines, viaducts, bridges, tunnels and subways, or any other purpose within the class of public utilities, or for the exercise of the powers herein granted or provided for, and that may hereafter be granted or provided for, or for any other public purpose; May also acquire, in any manner aforesaid, and hold and use lands or other property, whether specifically enumerated herein or not, within or outside of the State of Missouri, when deemed by the Common Council necessary, advantageous or expedient for any of the uses aforesaid, or for any municipal purpose, when not prohibited by law; May also acquire, in any manner aforesaid, take, hold, use and improve, any property, real, personal or mixed, either within, or outside of, the corporate limits of the tity, for art galleries, museums, or any educational, benevolent, charitable, or other public purpose, whatsoever, and may do all acts necessary to carry out the purposes of any such bequest, devise or gift, and purposes for which said. property shall have been acquired, or be held; May establish and maintain museums, art galleries, public libraries, reading rooms and penal and charitable institutions; May erect, construct and maintain public buildings, public works and crematories, and may lay out, establish and maintain public parks and cemeteries; May construct and maintain sewers, drains, and all works necessary for the disposition of sewage and garbage; May lay out, open, extend, widen, improve, maintain, or vacate streets and alleys, sidewalks and crossings and all public highways and regulate the use of same; May sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any property, real, personal or mixed, including any contract rights, of the city, subject to the restrictions imposed by this charter, or the Constitution of the State: |