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sinking fund.

VII. To make provision for a sinking fund to pay To provide for at maturity the bonded indebtedness of the city, and to levy and collect taxes on all the taxable property in the city, in addition to all other taxes, for the purposes of paying the same, under and subject to the limitations and requirements of this act and of the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth.

VIII. To provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city, and to appropriate money therefor.

IX. To create any office which they may deem necessary for the good government and interests of the city, and to regulate and prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of all such officers in accordance with this act, but no ordinance shall be passed increasing or diminishing the salary or compensation of any offi cer after his election or appointment.

To provide for and expenses.

payment of debts

To create offices,

if deemed necessary.

To prescribe

powers, duties

and compensation

of certain officers.

X. To require from all officers and agents of the city, To require bonds elected or appointed, lawful bonds, and security for and security. the faithful performance of their duties thereof, until such bond shall have been duly approved by the proper

authority.

To provide for removal of officers.

removal of ob structions.

XI. To provide for the removal of officers of the city whose offices are established by ordinance, and whose removal is not otherwise herein provided for. XII. To require the removal of all obstructions from To require the the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters, streets and street crossings, at the expense of the owners or occupiers of the ground fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person or persons placing the same there; and to regulate the planting and protection of shade trees Planting of trees. in the streets, the building of cellar and basement ways and other excavations through or under the sidewalks Building of basein said city.

ment ways, etc.

of porches, etc.

XIII. To make and establish such and so many uni- For the regulation form rules and regulations, as to them may seem expedient, for the better regulation of porches, porticoes, benches, doorsteps, railings, bulk, bay or jut windows; areas, cellar doors and cellar windows, signs and sign-posts, boards, poles or frames, awnings, awning posts, or other devices or things, projecting over, under, into, or otherwise occupying, the sidewalks or other portion of any of the streets, lanes or alleys, and in relation to boxes, bales, barrels, hogsheads, crates or articles of merchandise, lumber, coal, wood, ashes, building materials, or any other article or thing whatsoever, placed in or upon any of the said sidewalks or other portion of said streets, lanes or alleys, and also to prevent and remove all encroachments thereon.

nance of bridges

XIV. To provide for and require the construction For the mainteand maintenance of bridges or other crossings over and other railor under railroad tracks, and to enter into contracts way crossings.

Safety gates and flagmen.

Obstruction of crossings.

Night watch and police.

To regulate the police.

with railroad companies for the construction and maintenance of the same; to require the erection of safetygates, and the placing of flagmen at the intersection of railroads with public streets; to forbid the obstruction of the said crossings by locomotives or railroad cars, and also to make reasonable regulations concerning the rate of speed at which locomotives, cars or trains shall pass upon or across the streets within the built up portions of the city.

XV. To establish and maintain night-watch and police, and define the duties of the same.

XVI. To regulate the police of the city, and to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the violation of any ordinance, and provide for the recovery and Fines, forfeitures collection of the same, and in default of payment to provide for confinement in the city or county prison, or to hard labor upon the streets or elsewhere, for the benefit of the city.

and penalties.

For lock-ups or watch-houses.

XVII. To provide for the erection or purchase of lock-ups or watch-houses in some convenient part of the city, for the detention and confinement of vagrants and persons arrested by the police officers, until the persons so arrested can be taken before the proper magistrate for hearing and committed to prison or Detention of pris- discharged, but no person shall be detained therein for a longer time than twenty-four hours, except upon the order of a magistrate legally authorized, who may commit such person for further hearing.

oners therein.

To erect and maintain hospitals, etc.

Public buildings.

Protection of persons and property at places of public resort.

Rewards for detection of criminals.

To collect a 11cense tax from public exhibitions.

License tax upon street railways,

etc.

XVIII. To erect or purchase, establish and maintain hospitals, prisons, work-houses and houses of correction for juvenile or other offenders, and to prescribe regulations for the government thereof, and also to erect all public buildings necessary for the use of the city or of any department thereof.

XIX. To establish and enforce suitable police regulations for the protection of persons and property at public squares, parks, depots, depot-grounds and other places of public resort, and for the arrest and commitment of professional thieves.

XX. To offer rewards for the arrest and conviction of persons guilty of capital or other high crimes within the city, but no policeman shall be entitled to receive any share thereof.

XXI. To license, and collect a license tax from, all skating rinks, operas, theatres, concerts, shows, circuses, menageries, and all kinds of public exhibition for pay (except those for local, religious, educational or charitable purposes); to regulate the same, and to restrain all exhibitions of indecent or immoral character.

XXII. And every city of the second class shall have power, for general revenue purposes, to levy and collect license taxes or fees, to be fixed by ordinance,

upon street railways, hackdrivers, auctioneers, bill posters, public balls or dances, night soilers, garbage collectors, railroad switches, pawn brokers, peddlers; venders of any kind of merchandise whatever, using the streets, lanes, highways, wharves, or public squares or grounds, for the purpose of vending the same; all theatrical exhibitions, whether permanent or transient (including circuses), vehicles, bicycles, tricycles, automobiles, dogs, ball games or ball parks, and all other matters and things of a like nature, and to regulate the collection of the same and to provide penalties for default therein.

bathing.

XXIII. To regulate the time and place of bathing in To regulate public the rivers and other public waters, in and adjoining said city.

XXIV. To establish stands for coaches, cabs, omnibuses, carriages, wagons and other vehicles for hire, and to enforce the observance and use thereof, and to fix the rates and prices for the transportation of persons and property from one part of the city to another.

To establish

stands for cabs, etc., and to fix the portation.

prices for trans

To suppress tip

XXV. To restrain, prohibit and suppress tippling pling houses, etc. shops, houses of prostitution, gambling-houses, gaming-cock or dog fighting, and other disorderly or unlawful establishments or practices, desecration of the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, and all kinds of public indecencies.

To prevent and

restrain riots,

disturbances, etc.

vagrants.

XXVI. To prevent and restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances or disorderly assemblies, in any street, house or place in the city; to regulate, prevent and punish the discharge of fire-arms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous, combustible material, in the streets, lots, grounds, alleys, or in the vicinity of any buildings; to prevent and punish the carrying of concealed deadly weapons; to arrest, fine, or set at work on the streets or elsewhere, all vagrants found To set at work in said city; to prevent and punish horse-racing, fast driving or riding in the streets, highways, alleys, To prevent fast bridges, or places in the city, and all games, practices in streets, etc. or amusements therein likely to result in danger or damage to any person or property; and to prevent and punish the riding or driving of horses, mules, oxen, cattle, or other teams, or the passage of any vehicles drawn thereby, over, upon or across sidewalks, and to regulate the passing of the same through the public streets.

driving or riding

To erect and es

tablish market

houses and

ket places.

XXVII. To purchase and own grounds for, and to erect and establish, market-houses and market-places, for which latter purpose parts of any streets or sidewalks may be temporarily used, and to provide and enforce suitable general market regulations; to contract To regulate the with any person or persons, or association, or persons, companies or corporations, for the erection and regu

same.

To collect a license tax from vendors.

To regulate the weighing and

measuring of commodities.

Hay, coal and wood.

Weights and measures.

To provide for construction of

levees and ferries and wharves, etc.

To establish and change channels of water courses.

To purchase land for public parks.

To levy and collect special taxes.

To provide for pens, pounds, etc., and to appoint keepers thereof.

To tax dog owners.

prevent the in

lation of market-houses and market-places, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the councils may prescribe, and raise all necessary revenue therefor, as herein provided; and also to levy and collect a license tax from every person, or persons, who may be authorized by councils to occupy any portion of the streets or sidewalks for temporary public market purposes.

XXVIII. To regulate the weighing and measuring of every commodity sold in the city, in all cases not otherwise provided by law; to provide for and regulate the inspection and weighing of hay, grain and coal, and the measuring of wood and fuel, to be used in the city, and to designate the place or places of the same; and to regulate and prescribe the place or places for exposing for sale hay, coal and wood, and to demand and receive reasonable fees for inspection, weighing and measuring, as aforesaid, and for the regulation and stamping of weights and measures.

XXIX. To provide for the construction and mainte nance of levees and ferries within the city limits; to erect wharves on navigable waters adjacent to the city, regulate the use thereof, collect wharfage, and establish wharf and dock lines.

XXX. To establish and change the channels of watercourses, and to wall and cover them over; to establish, make and regulate public wells, cisterns, aqueducts and reservoirs of water, and to provide for filling the same.

XXXI. To purchase, by and with the consent of a majority of the qualified electors, obtained at an election held therefor at a time and place to be fixed by councils, lands and premises for public parks, and to levy and collect such special taxes as may be necessary to pay for the same, and to make appropriations for the improvements and regulations for the government of parks owned or controlled by the city.

XXXII. To provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds and buildings, within or without the city limits; appoint keepers thereof, and to regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats, dogs or other animals; and to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold, to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such prohibition, and the expenses of impounding and keeping the same and of such sale; to regulate and provide for taxing the owners and harborers of dogs, and to destroy dogs found at large contrary to any ordinance.

XXXIII. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, and to remove and prevent nuisances.

XXXIV. To make all necessary orders and regulaetion of con- tions to prevent the introduction of contagious or pesti

diseases.

lential diseases into the city; to enact quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the same within five miles of the city limits.

XXXV. To purchase fire-engines, hooks, ladders, trucks, fire-alarms and other apparatus for the extinction of fires; to organize a fire department, with or without pay; to make the necessary appropriation for the maintenance of the same, and to prescribe rules and regulations for the government of the officers and companies belonging thereto; and, if a paid department, to provide by ordinance for the election or appointment of the officers and companies belonging thereto.

To purchase fire

engines, etc.; to organize a fire

department, etc.

To regulate the

construction of

fireplaces, chim

neys, etc.

XXXVI. To regulate the construction and inspection of fire-places, chimneys, stoves, stove-pipes, ovens, boilers, kettles, forges, or any apparatus used in any building, manufactory or business, and to order the suppression or cleaning thereof when deemed necessary for the prevention of fires; to regulate or prohibit the manufacture, sale, storage or transportation of inflammable or explosive substances within the city, and to prescribe limits within which no dangerous, obnoxious or offensive business shall be carried on. XXXVII. To provide a system for the inspection To provide for of buildings, to insure their safety and incombusti- tion. bility, and for the appointment of one or more building inspectors; to prescribe limits within which buildings shall not be constructed or reconstructed, or into or within which the same shall not be removed, except of incombustible materials with fire-proof roof; and any building erected, reconstructed or removed into or within such limits, contrary to the provisions of any ordinance forbidding the same, shall be a public nuisance and abatable as such.

building inspec

To provide for streets.

lighting of

To have exclusive city with gas or

right to supply

other light.

XXXVIII. To provide for and regulate the lighting of the streets with gas or electric lights, or light by other means, and to require the numbering of houses. XXXIX. To have the exclusive right, at all times, to supply the city with gas or other light, and such persons, partnerships and corporations therein as may desire the same, at such prices as may be agreed upon; and also to have, at all times, the unrestricted right to make, erect and maintain the necessary buildings, machinery and apparatus for manufacturing and distributing the same; or, in territory not supplied with light, to make contracts with and authorize any per- To contract for son, company or association so to do, and to give such person, company or association the privilege of supplying gas or other light, as aforesaid, for any length of time, not exceeding ten years.

XL. To have the exclusive right, at all times, to supply the city with water, and such persons, partner ships and corporations therein as may desire the same,

lighting.

To have exclusive

right to supply

city with water.

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