The Council shall have power to make, alter, repeal and enforce
ordinances, to pass and rescind resolutions, rules, votes and orders
and to take such action as may be necessary or expedient not inconsistent
with this act or with the laws of this state or of the United States,
for the following purposes: to manage and control the finances and
property, real and personal, of the city; to authorize the Mayor,
upon the vote of the Council, to borrow in the name of the city, and
upon the responsibility of the Fourth or Fifth District, as the case
may be, for the purpose of paying the running expenses of the city,
money in anticipation of the collection of taxes; to define, designate and specify additional territory
situated in the Fourth or Fifth Wards of said city to be included
at any time hereafter in the Fourth Taxing District thereof; to regulate
the construction, erection and maintenance of billboards, advertising
signs and other structures; to establish building lines beyond which
no building, step, stoop, veranda, billboard, advertising sign or
other structure may be erected; to regulate the sale, conveyance and transfer of city
property; to regulate the mode of assessment and collection of taxes;
to provide for the due execution of contracts and of evidences of
indebtedness issued by said city; to provide the mode for keeping
and auditing the accounts of said city and adjusting claims against
said city, to fix the salaries and the compensation of all officers
and employees of said city, and to prescribe the duties of said officers
and employees; to maintain an efficient police force in the Fourth
Taxing District at the expense of said district; to regulate and prescribe
the duties of the police force in respect to criminal matters within
said district; to establish and maintain suitable prisons or lockups
within the limits of said city for confinement of all persons arrested,
and such prisons shall be under such rules and regulations as the
Council shall ordain; to preserve order, to prevent and quell riots
and disorderly assemblages, to suppress gambling houses, houses of
ill-fame and disorderly houses; to prevent persons loitering on the
streets, sidewalks and spaces between sidewalks and buildings, and
in and about the entrance of buildings to the hindrance or annoyance
of the public; to compel the closing of saloons and other places where
spirituous and intoxicating liquors are kept and sold at such suitable
hours during the night season as said Council may designate, and at
such times and on such occasions as may be required by the public
good; to protect said city from fire; to maintain a Fire Department
in the Fourth Taxing District and to provide apparatus therefor; to
erect and keep in repair all buildings necessary for the Fire Departments
of the city; to purchase necessary fire engines, hose carriages, horses,
and other fire apparatus at the expense of said Fourth District; to
make rules and regulations for the safekeeping and preservation of
all apparatus connected with and used by said Fire Departments; to
establish fire limits; to regulate the mode of building, and determine
materials to be used for building or altering of buildings; to grant
permits for the moving, erection, addition to, repair, and enlargement
of buildings; to regulate the heating of buildings, and cleaning of
chimneys; to establish districts of said city within which it shall
be unlawful to erect, elevate, enlarge, repair, or remove any wooden
building, except by permission of said Council or a committee thereof;
to regulate the erection, construction, repair, or use within said
city of any building which by reason of its structure is or may become
unsafe; to enforce the disuse, removal, or demolition of any such
building or part thereof which may become unsafe; to provide safe
and convenient means of egress in case of emergency from any building
used by the public, and to prohibit the use of any building which
may become unsafe by reason of insufficient facilities for egress
or other causes; to regulate the use and occupation of all the city
buildings; to license, regulate, or prohibit the manufacture, keeping,
sale, or use of fireworks, torpedoes, fire crackers, gun powder, petroleum,
or other explosive or inflammable substances, and the conveyance thereof;
to regulate the discharge of fire arms; to regulate the storing and
hiring of lumber; to regulate the erection and maintenance of lamp
posts, telegraph, telephone, and electric light poles and conduits,
wires, and fixtures; to provide for public lighting of streets and
to protect the same from injury; to regulate parades, processions,
public assemblages, shows, and music in the public streets; to regulate
the speed of animals, vehicles, and cars in the streets; to provide
for raising, filling, and draining low lands and places in which mosquitoes
breed, and the widening, deepening, or straightening of any streams
within said city; to prescribe the form of proceeding and mode of
assessing benefits and appraising damages in taking land for public
use, and the time when and manner which all benefits assessed shall
be collected; to make, repair, clean, light, and keep open and safe
for public use and travel, and free from encroachment and obstruction,
the streets, highways, sidewalks, gutters, and public grounds; to sprinkle the streets of the city with water, oil, or
other substance at the expense of the city, or by assessment as hereinafter
provided; to compel the owners or occupants of land and buildings
to remove the snow and ice from the sidewalks in front of such land
and buildings; to regulate the width of all highways, streets, sidewalks,
and gutters; to regulate excavations in streets, highways, and public
grounds and the location of any work thereon, or the depositing of
building materials on any sidewalk or highway, or the removal of buildings
upon or through the same; to prohibit, regulate, or license the selling
of wares and merchandise upon said streets, sidewalks, or public places;
to regulate the blowing of whistles and horns, and the ringing of
bells; to regulate or prohibit the placing of signs or awnings over
sidewalks, to regulate or prohibit the running at large of all animals
in said city; to license and regulate public hacks, automobiles, and
carriages, and the charges of hackmen, chauffeurs, public drivers,
carmen and truckmen; to regulate the laying of conduits, gas pipes,
water pipes, and drains in the streets and highways; to regulate the
planting, removal, care and preservation of trees in the public streets
and parks; to prohibit the sale of newspapers upon the streets; to
provide for the health of the city; to prevent and abate every kind
of nuisance; to regulate the location, construction, and use of sinks,
cesspools, pigpens, drains, sewers, and privies; to compel the removal
of nuisances injurious to health, or offensive or annoying to the
public it the expense of the owners of the premises upon which said
nuisances exist; to provide for the collection, removal, and disposal
of garbage, ashes, and refuse in the Fourth Taxing District at the
expense of said district; to regulate the moving of any manure, swill,
night soil, or dead animals; to regulate the carrying on of any trade,
manufacture, or business prejudicial to public health or unreasonably
annoying to those living or owning property within the vicinity; to
provide for the inspection of meat, vegetables, fish, produce, fruits,
milk, and food of any kind exposed for sale in said city, and to prohibit
the sale thereof when in such condition as to endanger public health;
to regulate the naming of public streets, the numbering of lots thereon,
and the erection of banners or flags; to regulate weights and measures;
to license and regulate peddling and auctions upon the streets and
sidewalks; to license and regulate sports, exhibitions, public amusements,
and billiard and bowling rooms; to regulate coasting, sliding, and
use of velocipedes, bicycles, and tricycles on the sidewalks; to protect
public buildings, property, and structures from injury; to prohibit
the depositing of any filth, garbage, or rubbish in any stream or
on any highway or public or private grounds; to preserve and care
for public burial grounds and regulate the burial of the dead; to
regulate bathing in places exposed to public view; to prevent cruelty
to animals and inhuman sports; to provide a public seal; to regulate
and prescribe the mode of conducting all elections not regulated by
this act; to regulate the manner of warning city elections and meetings
of the Common Council, and the times and places of holding the same;
to provide for the removal of any officer for cause; to provide places
for holding elections in said city and in the wards thereof; to prescribe
the amount of bonds to be given by city officers or employees and
to confer upon the officers of said city all proper authority to enable
them to discharge their duties; to prescribe fines; penalties, and
forfeitures for the violation of any ordinances, which penalties and
forfeitures may be recovered by the Corporation Counsel in an action
brought for that purpose in the name of the city before the town court
or any other court having jurisdiction for the use of said city.
