The enumeration of particular powers in this charter is not exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words or phrases granting powers, nor shall a grant or failure to grant power in this chapter impair a power granted in any other part of this charter, and whether powers, objects, or purposes are expressed, conjunctively or disjunctively, they shall be construed so as to permit the city to exercise freely any one (1) or more such powers as to any one (1) or more such objects for any one (1) or more such purposes.Acts 1921, ch. 173, art. 3, § 2; Shan. Supp., § 1997a132; Code 1932, § 3529; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-1902.
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