The city shall have the right to prohibit the driving of herds
of horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, and all herds of domesticated
animals along or upon the streets, avenues or alleys of said city;
to establish and regulate public pounds and to regulate, restrain
and prohibit the running at large of domestic animals and fowls, and
to authorize the restraining, impounding and sale of the same for
the cost of the proceedings and the penalty incurred, and to order
their destruction when they cannot be sold and to impose penalties
upon the owner thereof for the violation of any ordinances regulating
or prohibiting the same; to tax, regulate and restrain and prohibit
the running at large of dogs and to authorize their destruction and
impose penalties on the owners or keepers thereof to prohibit the
inhumane treatment of animals and provide punishment therefor.
The city shall have the right to prohibit the firing of firearms,
firecrackers or the use and practice of any amusement upon the streets
or sidewalks to the annoyance of pedestrians, or persons using said
streets or sidewalks, and to restrain, regulate and prohibit the ringing
of bells, blowing of horns, bugles and whistles or any other performances
which tend to disturb the peace and quietude of the inhabitants of
said city and to suppress and regulate all unnecessary annoyances.
The city shall have the right to license any lawful business,
occupation or calling that is susceptible to the control of the police
power, and to license, regulate, control or prohibit the erection
of signs or billboards; to license, tax, regulate or suppress and
prevent hawkers, peddlers and pawnbrokers; to license, tax and regulate
the charges of fares made by any person, firm, or corporation owning,
operating or controlling any vehicle operated for the carriage of
passengers or freight for hire, or the public streets of the city.
The city shall have the right to regulate the operation of railway
trains and street cars operated on, along or across the streets, avenues
or alleys of said city; to license and control the operation of automobiles,
motorcycles, taxicabs, buses, cabs, and carriages and all character
of vehicles using the public streets, and to regulate the use and
occupancy of the streets by any such vehicles.
The city shall have the right to regulate and control plumbing
works and plumbers, and to secure efficiency in the same; to provide
for the inspection of weights, measures and meters and fix a standard
of such weights, measures and meters and require conformity to such
standards and provide penalties for failure to use or conform to the
same, and to provide for inspection fees; to provide for the issuance
of permits for erecting all buildings; for the inspection of the construction
of all buildings in respect to proper wiring for electric lights and
other electrical appliances; piping for gas, flues, chimneys, plumbing
and sewer connections, and to enforce proper regulations in regard
thereto.
The city shall have the right to provide for the establishment
and designation of fire limits; to prescribe the kind and character
of structures to be erected therein; to provide for the erection of
fireproof buildings within said limits and for the condemnation of
dangerous or dilapidated structures which are calculated to increase
the fire hazard; to enact and enforce all ordinances and resolutions
necessary to regulate the safety of all office buildings and all public
buildings, hotels, apartment houses, rooming houses, hospitals, theatres,
and store buildings; to require the construction of fire escapes in
connection with public buildings, and to determine the sufficiency
and regulate the safety of all exits and fire escapes provided on
public buildings of every kind and character.
