Section 1. - Organization.

The inhabitants within the boundaries hereinafter defined, and their successors, are hereby created and organized a municipal corporation, and body politic with perpetual succession under the name "The City of Edmond," and shall succeed to, own and possess all the property, rights, privileges, franchises, powers and immunities now belonging to the present corporation known as The City of Edmond and shall be liable for all debts and obligations for which said present corporation is now liable, and shall have the power to adopt a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, to sue and be sued in all courts, to make contracts, to take and acquire property by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, and to hold, lease, mortgage, convey or otherwise dispose of any of its property within or without the limits of said City, and it shall have such other powers, rights, privileges, franchises and immunities as are granted and conferred by any other parts of this Charter or by the Constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma.

Section 2. - Boundaries.

The boundaries of said City, and the respective wards thereof shall be the same as at the time of the adoption of this Charter and until changed as provided for by law.

Section 3. - General grant of power.

Said City shall have all other powers that may hereafter be given it by the Constitution and the laws of this State, and where any provisions of this Charter shall be in conflict with any law or laws relating to cities of the first class in force at the time of adoption and approval of this Charter, the provisions of this Charter shall prevail, and said City shall have the power to enact and enforce all ordinances necessary to protect health, life and property, and to define, prevent and summarily abate and remove nuisances; to preserve and enforce good government and order, and to protect the lives, health and property of the inhabitants thereof; to enact and enforce all ordinances upon any subject; provided that no ordinance shall be enacted inconsistent with the general laws of this State, the State Constitution or this Charter.

Section 4. - Constitution applied.

Article Eighteen of the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma, under the title "Municipal Corporation," and every section thereof, including the initiative and referendum, is hereby adopted and made in full force and effect for the government of The City of Edmond.

Section 5. - Bequests, gifts and donations.

Said City may receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds of property in fee simple or in trust for charitable or public purposes and perform all acts necessary to carry out the purposes of such bequests, gifts, donations or trusts with power to manage, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of same in accordance with the terms of the bequest, gift, donation or trust.

Section 6. - General grant of powers not limited.

The legislative, executive and judicial powers of the City shall extend to all matters of local and municipal government, it being the intent hereof that the specification of particular powers by any other provision of this Charter shall never be construed as limiting or impairing the effect of the general grant of powers hereby made.

Section 7. - Former government in force.

All existing ordinances of the City not inconsistent with this Charter or inapplicable under the altered form of municipal government provided by this Charter shall be and continue in full force and effect until amended or repealed or until they expire by their own limitations, and no existing right, action (civil or penal), court proceeding or contract, shall be affected by the change in the form of government of the City; but shall all continue as though no such change had taken place; and all debts, penalties and forfeitures which have accrued, or which may hereafter accrue by virtue of anything heretofore done or existing shall inure to the benefit of The City of Edmond and may be sued for and recovered by the said City as though this Charter had not been adopted. Nothing here, however, shall legalize any invalid indebtedness of the City heretofore contracted or incurred, or impair any defense, against the payment of the same; nor shall the adoption of this Charter in any wise interfere with any proceedings heretofore instituted relating to the levy and collection of taxes, special assessments, or levies of any nature or with any proceedings to enforce the payment of the same, and all contracts heretofore entered into by the City shall remain in full force and effect and be completed under the ordinances existing at the time of the adoption of this Charter.