§ 36-3. Authority of city to institute and prosecute suits relating to charitable, etc., trusts.

The city, acting through the mayor, is hereby authorized and empowered to institute and prosecute in any court of competent jurisdiction all suits and proceedings relating to any property or funds given, devised or bequeathed to the city, or to any class of persons in the city, for charitable, educational and other public purposes, including the right to sue to have the trust established, to have a trustee named and appointed for such property and funds, and to remove any such trustees for misconduct or mismanagement of such fund or property, or for any act justifying the removal of such trustee, and the city is further authorized and empowered, acting through the mayor, to prosecute any suits for the removal of any such trustees, and for the appointment of other trustees in their place, and to do and perform all acts and prosecute all proceedings of every character incident or relating to or in anywise connected with such trust property and funds that may be necessary for the full and complete protection of same.

(Code 1968, § 37-3)