§ 2-101. Powers.

(1)

The City shall retain, to the same extent as if herein repeated, all rights, powers, privileges and authority that it has or could claim under the law of this State at the time of the adoption hereof, except as herein expressly modified.

(2)

In addition to the foregoing, the City shall have all rights, powers, privileges and authority herein conferred or herein enlarged and all rights, powers, privileges and authority whether expressed or implied that may hereafter be granted to a similar corporation by any general law of the State or that may be necessary or useful to enjoy a home rule charter.

(3)

The rights, powers, privileges and authority heretofore enjoyed, herein retained or herein claimed shall subsist, notwithstanding the repeal of any law, until any such right, power, privilege or authority be altered or taken away by amendment to this Charter in the manner provided for by the Constitution or as herein provided.

(4)

The City, in addition to the rights, powers, privileges and authority expressly conferred upon it by this Charter, shall have the right, power, privilege and authority to adopt and enforce local police, sanitary and similar regulations and to do and perform all of the acts pertaining to its local affairs, property and government which are necessary or proper in the legitimate exercise of its corporate powers and municipal functions.

(5)

No enumeration of any right, power, privilege or authority hereinafter made and no repeal of any law under which the City derives any right, power, privilege or authority shall be construed as limiting or abolishing any right, power, privilege or authority hereinabove set forth.

(6)

The rights, powers, privileges and authority of the City of New Orleans under this Charter shall be construed liberally in order to establish the broadest measure of local self-government in any and all matters not prohibited or reserved to the state by the Louisiana Constitution.