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In addition to any of the powers it may have by virtue of any of the applicable provisions of state law, the City Charter, and the City Code, the golf enterprise shall have the power under this article to:

(1) Acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or exercise of the right of eminent domain; construct; reconstruct; improve; better and extend golf facilities, wholly within or wholly without the City or partially within and partially without the City, and acquire in the name of the City by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right of eminent domain lands, easements, and rights in land in connection therewith;

(2) Operate and maintain golf facilities for its or the City's own use and for the use of public and private users within and without the territorial boundaries of the City;

(3) Accept federal funds under any federal law in force to aid in financing the cost of engineering, architectural, or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, or other activities preliminary to the construction of golf facilities;

(4) Accept federal funds under any federal law in force for the construction of golf facilities;

(5) Enter into joint operating agreements, contracts, or arrangements with private individuals or entities concerning golf facilities, whether acquired or constructed by the golf enterprise or the private individual or entity, and accept grants and contributions from private individuals or entities for the construction of golf facilities and all activities preliminary thereto;

(6) Prescribe, revise, and collect in advance or otherwise, from any individual or entity purchasing or leasing goods or receiving service therefrom, rates, fees, and charges or any combination thereof for the goods sold or leased or the services furnished by golf facilities, and, in anticipation of the collection of the revenues of such golf facilities, issue revenue bonds to finance in whole or in part the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of golf facilities, and issue temporary bonds until permanent bonds and any coupons appertaining thereto have been printed and exchanged for the temporary bonds;

(7) Pledge to the punctual payment of the bonds and interest thereon all or any part of the revenues of golf facilities, including the revenues of improvements, betterments, or extensions thereto thereafter constructed or acquired, as well as the revenues from existing golf facilities;

(8) Enter into and perform contracts and agreements with other governmental entities and golf activity enterprises for or concerning the planning, construction, lease, or other acquisition and the financing of golf facilities and the maintenance and operation thereof;

(9) Make all contracts, execute all instruments, and do all things necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted in this section or elsewhere in state law, the City Charter or the City Code or in the performance of its covenants or duties or in order to secure the payment of its bonds if no encumbrance, mortgage, or other pledge of property, excluding any pledged revenues, of the golf enterprise or city is created thereby, and if no property, other than money, of the golf enterprise or city is liable to be forfeited or taken in payment of the bonds, and if no debt on the credit of the golf enterprise or city is thereby incurred in any manner for any purpose; and

(10) Issue golf refunding bonds pursuant to this Code or other applicable law to refund, pay, or discharge all or any part of its outstanding golf revenue bonds issued under this division or under any other law, including any interest thereon in arrears or about to become due, or for the purpose of reducing interest costs, effecting a change in any particular year in the principal and interest payable thereon or in the related golf rates to be charged, affecting other economies, or modifying or eliminating restrictive contractual limitations appertaining to the issuance of additional bonds or to any municipal golf facilities. (Code 1979, § 29-133)