Section 1. The city council shall have power to appoint a recorder, a city clerk, city treasurer, city engineer, city attorney, city physician, street commissioner, auditor, a chief and assistance engineer of the fire department, and all such other officers as they may deem necessary; and shall also designate one public newspaper, printed in said city, in which shall be published all ordinances and other matters required in any case by this act.
[Acts 1873, p. 229, Sec. 3; Amended by Ord. No. 2001-99 enacted November 26, 2001, and approved in the election of February 5, 2002]
Section 2. The city council shall have the management and control of the finances, and all property, real, personal and mixed, belonging to the corporation, and shall likewise have power within the jurisdiction of the city, by ordinance:
First:
To borrow money on the credit of the city, and issue bonds of the city therefore subject to the restrictions in this article prescribed;
Second:
To appropriate money, and provide for the payments of the debts and expenses of the city;
Third:
To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws for the purpose, and to enforce them within the city, and within three miles thereof;
Fourth:
To make regulations to secure the general health and comfort of the inhabitants; to prevent, abate and remove nuisances, and to punish the author thereof by penalties, fines and imprisonment; to define what shall be deemed nuisances, and to direct the summary abatement thereof;
Fifth:
To provide the city with water; to make, regulate and establish public wells, pumps and cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs in or under the street within the city, or beyond the limits thereof for the extinguishment of fires and the conveniences of the inhabitants, and to prevent the unnecessary waste of water;
Sixth:
To have the exclusive control and power over the streets, public grounds and highways of the city; to open, alter, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve, clear and keep in repair the same; to prevent and remove all encroachments thereon, or obstructions thereof; to put drains and sewers in the same, and to regulate the building of vaults, under sidewalks, and to prohibit the erecting of awning or sheds, and direct and control the erection thereof;
Seventh:
To provide for the lighting of the streets and erecting of lamps thereon, and to regulate the price and quality of gas;
Eighth:
To provide for the erection of market houses, and all needful buildings for the use of the city; to provide for the government and regulations of markets, market places and meat shops, and the amount of license to be paid therefore;
Ninth:
To provide for the enclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to the city;
Tenth:
To establish hospitals and provide for the government thereof;
Eleventh:
To license, tax and regulate auctioneers, grocers, merchants, retailers, and innkeepers, and to license, tax and regulate and suppress eating houses, restaurants, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, intelligence offices, theatrical and other exhibitions, shows and amusements, billiard tables, gift enterprises, tippling houses, dram shops, ten pin alleys, and ball alleys, and to suppress gaming, gambling houses, bawdyhouses and other disorderly houses;
The city council shall have sole and exclusive power to license, tax and regulate dramshops and tippling houses, tenpin alleys and billiard tables, within the corporate limits of the city.
Twelfth:
To license, tax and regulate hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, porters, and all others pursuing like occupations, with or without vehicles, and to prescribed their compensation, and to regulate, license and restrain runners for cars, stages and public houses;
Thirteenth:
To authorize the proper officers of the city to grant and issue licenses, and to direct the manner of issuing and registering the same, and the fees and charges to be paid therefore. No license shall be granted for more than one year, and not less than five dollars shall be charged for any license under this act, and the fees for issuing the same shall not exceed one dollar; but no license for the sale of wine or other liquors, malt, ardent, vinous, spirituous, shall be issued for less than fifty dollars ($50.00);
Fourteenth:
To restrain, regulate and prohibit the selling or giving away of any intoxicating or malt liquors by any person within the city, other than those duly licensed; to forbid and punish the selling or giving away of any intoxicating liquors to any minor or habitual drunkard;
Fifteenth:
To restrain and punish engrossing, forestalling and regrating; to regulate the inspection and rending of fresh meats, poultry and vegetables, or butter, lard and other provisions, and the place and manner of selling fish, and inspecting the same;
Sixteenth:
To require all tracters or dealers in merchandise or property of any description, which is sold by measure or by weight, to cause their measures or weights to be tested and sealed by the proper officer, and to be subjected to this inspection, the standard of such weights and measures shall conform to those established by law;
Seventeenth:
To regulate and provide for inspecting and measuring lumber, shingles, timber, posts, staves, headings and all kinds of building materials, and for measuring all kinds of mechanical work and to appoint one or more measurers and inspectors therefore;
Eighteenth:
To provide exclusively for the inspection and weighing of hay, lime and stone, coal, and the place of selling the same, to regulate the measurement of firewood, charcoal and other fuel, to be sold or used within the city and the place and manner of selling the same;
Nineteenth:
To regulate and control the storage of gunpowder, coal oil, and burning fluids, tar, pitch, resin, lumber, and other combustible materials and the location of lumber, coal and wood yards, or other places for the keeping and sale of articles and materials in danger of fire, and to compel the owner of any property, grocery, cellar, soap or tallow chandler, or blacksmith shop, tannery, stable, slaughterhouse, distillery, breweries, sewer, sink, privy, or other unwholesome or nauseous place to clean, remove, or abate the same, as may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants;
Twentieth:
To regulate the inspection of beef, pork, flour, meal and other provisions, whiskey and other liquors, to be sold in barrels, hogsheads, and other vessels or packages; to appoint weighers, gaugers and inspectors, and to prescribe their duties, and to regulate their fees, provided that nothing herein shall be so construed as to require the inspection of any articles enumerated herein which are to be shipped beyond the limits of this State, except at the request of the owner or his agent;
Twenty-first:
To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be sold within the city;
Twenty-second:
To create, regulate and establish the police of the city, to appoint watchmen and policemen, and prescribe their duties and powers;
Twenty-third:
To prevent and suppress any riot, rout, affray, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the city;
Twenty-fourth:
To prevent, prohibit and suppress horseracing, immoderate riding or driving within the city, and authorize persons immoderately riding or driving as aforesaid, to be stopped by any person, to prohibit it, and to punish the abuse of animals, to compel persons to fasten their animals attached to vehicles while standing in the street;
Twenty-fifth:
To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars and prostitutes;
Twenty-sixth:
To prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs and other animals, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same;
Twenty-seventh:
To tax, regulate, restrain and prohibit the running at large of dogs, and to authorize their destruction, when at large contrary to ordinance;
Twenty-eighth:
To prohibit the rolling of hoops, flying of kites, or any other amusement or practice tending to annoy persons passing on the streets or sidewalks, or to frighten horses or teams; to restrain and prohibit the ringing of bells, blowing of horns or bugles, crying of goods and all other noises, performances and practices tending to the collection of persons on the streets and sidewalks by auctioneers and others for the purpose of business, amusement or otherwise;
Twenty-ninth:
To provide for taking an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city;
Thirtieth:
To erect or establish a workhouse or house of correction, make all necessary regulations therefore, and appoint all necessary keepers or assistants; in such workhouse or house of correction, may be confined all vagrants, stragglers, idle and disorderly persons who may be committed thereto by the proper officer, and all persons sentenced by the recorder's court in the City of Chillicothe, for any offense cognizable by said court; and any person who shall fail or neglect to pay any fine or penalty, or costs imposed for any misdemeanor, or breach of any ordinance of the city may be kept therein, subject to labor and confinement;
Thirty-first:
To direct and control the construction and laying of railroad tracks, bridges, turnouts and switches, in the streets and alleys, not interfering with the right-of-way, under such conditions as may be granted by the charter of any railroad company, to require that the railroad track, bridges, turnouts and switches shall be so constructed and laid as to interfere as little as possible with the ordinary travel and the use of the streets and alleys, and that sufficient space shall be left on either side of said track for the safe and convenient passage of teams and persons; to require the railroad companies to keep in repair the streets or alleys through which their tracks may run, and to light the same; to construct and keep in repair suitable crossings at the intersections of the streets and alleys, ditches, sewers and culverts, to direct the use and regulate the speed of locomotive engines within the limits of the city; to prohibit and restrain railroad companies from doing storage or warehouse business or collecting pay for storage;
Thirty-second:
To regulate the size of bricks to be sold or used in the city;
Thirty-third:
To pass, publish, amend and repeal all ordinances, rules and police regulations, in harmony with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State and the provisions of this act, and necessary for the good government, peace and order of the city, and the trade and commerce thereof, and that may be necessary and proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this act and the powers vested thereby in the corporation, or any department or officers thereof. To enforce the observance of all such rules, ordinances, and police regulations, and to punish violations thereof by fines, penalties and imprisonment in the city prison or workhouse; but no fines or penalty shall exceed five hundred dollars, nor imprisonment to exceed six months for any violation of any ordinance of the city, and such fine or penalty may be recovered with costs by suit in the name and for the use of said city, before any court of competent jurisdiction, and punishment inflicted, and any person upon whom any fine or penalty is imposed shall stand committed until the payments of the same, with costs, and in default thereof may be imprisoned in the city prison or workhouse, or be required to labor on the streets or public works of the city for such time and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance;
Thirty-fourth:
To regulate the election of all elective city officers and provide for the removing from office all persons holding office under the provisions of this act, where such election and removal is not otherwise provided for by this charter;
Thirty-fifth:
To provide for the appointment of all officers, servants and agents of the corporation not otherwise provided for;
Thirty-sixth:
To fix the compensation of city officers and regulate the fees of all jurors, witnesses and others, for services rendered under this act, or by any ordinance; provided that the compensation of no officer herein provided for be increased or diminished during his term of office;
Thirty-seventh:
To provide for assessment, levying and collection of the taxes herein provided, upon all property made taxable for State purposes within the limits of the city, and not exempt by general law from municipal taxation;
Thirty-eighth:
To cast the vote of the city in all elections for directors or other officers of railroads or other corporations, in which said city shall be a stockholder.