The council is empowered to establish, enlarge, maintain and operate, within or without
the corporate limits of the city, suitable systems of waterworks, electricworks, gasworks,
sewerworks, a sewerage disposal system and such other local public services and utilities
as may in its judgment be in the public interest, and to supply such services to consumers
in or near the city at such prices and upon such terms as it may prescribe, and to
contract or agree with the owners of land for the use or purchase thereof, or cause
land to be condemned, within or without the city, for the location, extension or enlargement
of any of said works, or pipes or wires connected therewith, or any of the appurtenances
or fixtures thereof, and to protect said land, works, pipes, wires, fixtures and appurtenances
from injury by enacting ordinances prescribing adequate penalties therefor, whether
within or without the limits of the city.
