Every city shall be a municipal corporation having the powers and rights and being subject to the duties of municipal corporations at common law. Each shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may use a corporate seal, may acquire, either within or without its corporate limits, such real and personal property as the purposes of the city may require, by purchase, gift, devise, condemnation, lease or otherwise, and may hold, manage, control, sell, convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of such property as its interests require. The powers listed in chapter 412 are not exclusive and other provisions of law granting additional powers to cities or to classes of cities shall apply except where inconsistent with this chapter.
Minn. Stat. § 412.211
GENERAL STATUTORY CITY POWERS.
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case City of Shakopee v. Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative (1981)
Most recently applied in City of Cohasset v. Minnesota Power (January 2010)
1949 c 119 s 28; 1973 c 123 art 2 s 1 subd 2
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