The city shall have exclusive control of all alleys, streets,
gutters and sidewalks situated within the city, and the power to lay
out, establish, open, alter, extend, widen, straighten, abandon and
close, lower, grade, narrow, care for, supervise, maintain and improve
any public street, alley, avenue, or boulevard, and for any such purposes
to acquire the necessary lands and to appropriate the same under the
power of eminent domain. The city shall also have the power to name
or rename, vacate and abandon and sell and convey in fee that portion
of any street, alley, avenue, boulevard or other public thoroughfare
or public grounds, and to convey in fee the same in exchange for other
lands, over which any street, alley, avenue or boulevard may be laid
out, established and opened; and the city's right to sell and dispose
of in fee any part of a street, alley, avenue or boulevard so vacated
and abandoned, or the city's right to convey same in exchange for
other lands to be used in laying out, opening, widening and straightening
any street, shall never be questioned in any of the courts of this
state. The procedure for closing streets and alleys shall be in conformity
with due process of law and shall be particularly prescribed and provided
for by ordinance passed in the usual manner by the city council.
The city shall have the power to improve any street or highway
within its limits by filling, grading, raising, paving or repaving
the same in a permanent manner, or by the construction or reconstruction
of sidewalks, curbs and gutters or necessary appurtenances thereto,
including sewers and drains.
The city council shall have all the authority given cities under
state law, and the power by ordinance to control the operations of
all character of vehicles using public streets, including motorcycles,
motor-scooters, bicycles, automobiles, taxicabs, trucks, trailers,
tractors, buses, house moving dollies, or any type vehicle; and to
prescribe the speed of the same, the qualifications of the operators
of the same, the routing of the same, and the lighting of same by
night; and to provide for the giving of bond or other security for
the operation of same.
The city council shall have the authority to limit the speed
of vehicles in school zones, near churches, hospitals, and dangerous
corners, and such other places as it may deem advisable, and to limit
or prohibit the parking of vehicles near schools, churches, business
or other congested areas, or where the limiting or restricting of
the parking of vehicles is required in providing the safe movement
of traffic for the protection of life or property.
