The city shall establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the protection of public health, and to provide for, establish and maintain such quarantine stations, facilities, pest houses, etc., as may be required by the public interest and to adopt and enforce such quarantine laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect its inhabitants against infectious or contagious diseases.
Said city shall have the power to define all nuisances, prohibit the same within the city and outside the city limits for a distance of five thousand (5,000) feet; to police all parks, grounds, speedways, streets, avenues and alleys owned by said city, within or without the city limits; to prohibit the pollution of all sources of water supply of said city, and provide for the protection of water sheds.
To provide for the inspection of dairies, cows and dairy herds, slaughter pens and slaughter houses and abattoirs, within or without the city limits, from which meat, milk, butter or eggs from same are furnished to the inhabitants of said city, and to provide for the inspection of meat markets, grocery stores, drug stores, confectioneries, fruit stands, ice cream factories, laundries, bottling plants, hotels, restaurants and bakeries; the source, storage and distribution of water, and all other places where food or drinks for human consumption are manufactured, handled, sold or exposed for sale, and to regulate and inspect the character and standard of such articles of food and drink so sold or offered for sale.
To provide for the inspection and regulation of the sanitary condition of all premises and vacant lots within the city limits; for the removal of garbage, night soil, refuse and unsanitary vegetation; to provide for establishing a lien against the property for any expenses incurred by the city in enforcing this provision and further to provide for the making and enforcing of all proper and reasonable regulations, for the health and sanitation of said city and its inhabitants.
To provide a sanitary sewer system and for the maintenance thereof to require property owners to make connection to such sewers and their premises and to provide for fixing a lien against any property owner’s premises who fails or refuses to make sanitary connection and to charge the cost against the said owner and make it a personal liability, and to fix penalties for failure to make sanitary sewer connections.