§ 1221. OTHER REVENUE-PRODUCING UTILITIES.

The City of Fresno shall have power to acquire (whether by lease, purchase, eminent domain or otherwise), construct, establish, improve, extend, maintain, operate, administer, lease, sublease and sublet any revenue-producing utility, including any and all improvements, buildings, systems, plants, works, facilities or undertakings used or useful in

(i) the obtaining, conserving, treating, and supplying of water for domestic use, irrigation, sanitation, industrial use, fire protection, recreation, or any other public or private uses;

(ii) the collection, treatment or disposal of garbage or other solid waste matter;

(iii) the collection, treatment or disposal of sewage, liquid industrial waste matter, or waste or storm water, including drainage.

Each such utility shall include all parts thereof, whether now in existence or hereafter constructed or acquired, and all improvements and extensions thereof hereafter acquired, and all lands, easements, rights-of-way, water rights, licenses, franchises, equipment, improvements or facilities whatsoever appurtenant or relating thereto, within or without the City of Fresno to promote the welfare of the citizens and inhabitants thereof.

Without limiting the generality of the next preceding paragraph, the City shall have power:

(a) To acquire lands and property and rights-of-way and any rights, licenses or franchises necessary or convenient for use for a revenue-producing utility;

(b) To acquire by condemnation, purchase or gift any property or interest therein;

(c) To improve any lands acquired by any construction necessary or convenient for the purposes of any such utility;

(d) To collect fees, rentals or charges to pay all or any part of purchasing, improving, or operating any such utility; and to establish and regulate rentals, rates and charges for all services provided the users of any such utility;

(e) To establish funds for any such utility and place limitations upon the uses of the money therefrom;

(f) To make all necessary rules and regulations regarding the use, operation and maintenance of any such utility;

(g) To issue revenue bonds and refunding revenue bonds for the purchase, acquisition, construction, improvement, extension, operation or maintenance of any such utility and to evidence such obligation for payment, discharge and retirement of the cost of such facilities, improvements and projects by the issuance of revenue bonds therefor, including refunding revenue bonds, in negotiable or non-negotiable form and payable solely out of the revenue derived from the operation, control or leasing of all or any part of any such utility, in accordance with the procedure established by Section 1222 of this Charter;

(h) To bind, allocate, pledge and authorize payment of all or any part of the gross revenues of any such utility or of any improvement or extension thereof for periods of years, for the payment of operation and maintenance costs of such utility and principal and interest on all revenue bonds or refunding revenue bonds issued and outstanding until all such bonds have been fully paid;

(i) To do any and all acts or things necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section.