INTERNATIONAL ALLS PRESS. tion the City Council shall submit the question of issuing the use of water for protection against fire and other purposes. such portion of the city as it may designate, and to compel bonds for any purpose, to a vote of the people as above It shall also have the power to contract with individuals, firms sewer connections in such portions, and to make the same or corporations for the use of electric or gas light for street provided. and to assess the cost thereof on the property so connected. lighting and other purposes. Such contracts for water and Provided, however, that a majority vote of the members Sixteenth. To regulate the numbering of houses, buildings electricity and gas to be made for such time as the City of the City Council shall be sufficient to pass any ordinance and lots and to compel the owners of houses and other buildings authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purpose of paying Council may deem for the best interests of the City, not to to have the numbers of such houses and other buildings maturing bonds of the City without submission to the electors. exceed five (5) years for water, and not to exceed five (5) shown conspicuously thereon or adjacent thereto. years for gas or electricity for street lighting and other public Provided, further, that the amount of all such bonds, except Seventeenth. To prevent and regulate or prohibit the locating purposes. as hereinafter provided, shall be controlled by the limitations construction and laying of street railway tracks in, under Power to Maintain Buildings.—Section 24. It shall have herein made on the power to issue bonds, and the City Council or over any streets, alleys or public places provided, that it power by a two-thirds vote of all the members thereof, shall not in any manner, either with or without the vote shall grant all public franchises and rights over, under or upon of the people, authorize the issuance of any bonds or create to erect, provide for, improve and repair a city hall, fire public streets and highways of the city only to such parties halls, police stations, armories, jail, workhouse, poorhouse, hospitals, indebtedness of the City in excess of the said limit herein as will contribute to the City the greatest amount of monev prescribed, except as hereinafter provided. public cemeteries, libraries, markets and market houses, for and give the best service in the exercise of the same. public pounds, pest houses, quarantine hospitals, and dumping Aldermen Not to Solicit Appointment.—Section 13. No Eighteenth. To provide for and change the location, grade places, dumping stations, sewer stations and other appurtenances, member of the City Council shall demand, request or solicit and crossing of any railroad, and compel railroad companies accessories, apparatus and equipment in connection any board, officer or employee, connected with the City, to to lower and bridge over or raise their tracks, and to pay all appoint any person to a position in said City, except that aldermen therewith as may be necessary for the transaction of the business damages caused thereby and to fence their respective rightsof-way, of the city, either within or without its limits, for its in open Council meeting may make such request or or any portion of the same, and construct cattle guards solicitation, and upon proof of the violation of this provision government, or the operation of its department and to on the streets and public roads and to keep the same in repair the office of such member shall become and be declared vacant acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation lands for sites for within the limits of the City. said buildings or to be used in connection therewith and to by the City Council. Nineteenth. To require railroad companies to keep flagmen acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any real Witnesses Before City Council.—Section 14. The City and erect and maintain gates at railroad crossings of Council and any of its Committees authorized by it so to do, property for municipal purposes, and by resolution passed by streets or public places, and to regulate and prohibit the obstruction (y3) a two-thirds vote of all its members, to sell or authorize shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses of the streets, alleys and other public places by railroad and the production of books, papers and other evidences at any the sale of any of the same. trains, cars or engines, and to provide protection against Depositing Funds and Auditing Accounts.—Section 25. It of its meetings, or before such committee, and for that purpose injury to persons and property in the use of such railroads. shall designate the depositories of the funds of the City Treasury, may issue subpoenas or attachments in any case of inquiry Twentieth. To compel and require railroad companies to and by resolution approve all bonds given for the safe or investigation to be signed by its President, or the make and keep open and in repair ditches, drains, sewers and keeping thereof, and it shall examine and audit the accounts Chairman of such Committee, as the case may be, which shall culverts along and under their railroad tracks so that filth of all City officers. be served and executed by any officer or person authorized by and stagnant water cannot stand on their ground or rightof-way law to serve subpoenas and other processes. Specific Powers.—Section 26. The City Council, except as and so that the natural drainage of adjacent property Punishment for Refusal to Testify.—Section 15. If any in this Charter otherwise provided, shall have the general shall not be impeded. witness shall refuse to testify to the facts within his knowledge, management and control of the finances and all property of Twenty-first. To restrain the pollution of the waters of the City, and shall have full power and authority to make, or to produce any books or papers in his posession, or any creek, river, pond, lake or water course within or adjacent amend or repeal all such ordinances and resolutions as it under his control, the City Council shall have the power to to the city to prevent the dumping of refuse or other UJ fine or commit him for contempt. shall deem expedient for the government and good order of matter therein, and to provide for the cleansing and purification Witnesses Not to Be Excused.—Section 16. No witness the City, for the protection of the public and public health, of water, water courses and canals and the draining and filling shall be excused from testifying touching his knowledge of comfort and safety, for the suppression of vice and intemperance of ponds or pools on private property whenever necessarv to the matter under investigation in any such proceeding or inquiry and the prevention of crime. It shall have power and prevent or abate nuisances and to compel the owner or occupant Q£ before the City Council or any Committee thereof, or authority to declare and impose penalties and punishments of any building or grounds to remove from the premises before any officer of the City having power to conduct the investigation for violation of ordinances and resolutions, and to enforce owned or occupied by him all such offensive substances as the but such testimony shall not be used against him the same against any person who may violate the same and City Council or the Board of Health may direct, and upon in any criminal prosecution except for perjury. all such ordinances and resolutions, not inconsistent with the his default to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by City Council to Control Finances—Limit on Bond Issues.— constitution and laws of this State, nor of the United States, some officer of the City at the expense of said owner or occupant. are hereby declared to have full force of law. For these purposes Section 17. The City Council shall control the finances of the City and shall have power to appropriate money for City the City Council shall have specific authority by ordinance Twenty-second. To compel the owner of low ground purposes only, except as hereinafter provided to provide for where water is liable to collect or become stagnant to fill or the payment of its debts and expenses to borrow money on First. To regulate the use of and to prevent and remove drain such low places, and, upon his default, to authorize such vy its credit for City purposes and to issue bonds therefor, as encroachments into, upon or over streets, avenues, public draining or filling at the expense of such owner, and to make trg gi hereinbefore provided to issue bonds in place of, or to supply grounds, public places, public streams and waters, and to the expense of the destruction or removal of such substances prevent injury thereto and prohibit the improper use thereof. means for paying maturing bonds or to consolidate or fund specified in subdivision 21, or expense of filling or draining any Second. To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing same. such low ground, a lien upon the property from which such A of ashes, paper, refuse, offal, dirt, garbage, or any other Provided, that the total indebtedness of the City, except as substances are removed or destroyed, or in which said low CQ offensive matter or obstructions in or upon any street, avenue, hereinafter provided, shall not thereby be made to exceed ten ground is filled or drained, and to make a special assessment alley, public ground, place or public stream or waters. (10) per cent of the total value of the taxable property of the for the same upon such property, to be collected as other City according to the last preceding assessment for the purpose Third. To require the owner or occupant of any premises special assessments are collected. V3 (J of taxation. to keep the sidewalks along or in front of the same free from Twenty-third. To fix the amount, terms and manner of Provided, however, that the certificates of indebtedness or obstructions and to remove snow, dirt or rubbish therefrom, issuing licenses not inconsistent with the law and subject c/ and to authorize the removal thereof at the expense of such bonds issued for the creation and maintenance of the permanent to the provisions of this Charter provided, that no license 00 owner or occupant, and to assess the cost of such removal improvement revolving fund shall not be considered as shall be issued for a longer term than one year. against said premises. a part of the bonded indebtedness of the City, for the purposes Twenty-fourth. To license and regulate or prohibit conductors of *his section. Fourth. To regulate the making and maintaining of openings of gifts, fire, auction or bankrupt sales, itinerant merchants and excavations in streets, alleys, public grounds and public Provided, further, that the certificates of indebtedness and transient venders of merchandise, and tax the *5 issued for the purpose of anticipating the collection of general places for the laying of gas and water mains and pipes, proceeds of their sales, and to license and regulate runners, taxes for the year in which they may be issued, shall not be construction of subways and conduits, and for other purposes agents and solicitors for stages, cars, vessels, public houses and to regulate the building and maintaining of sewers, tunnels considered as a portion of the bonded indebtedness of the or other things or persons. and drains, and the construction and use of all structures, city for the purposes of this section. Twenty-fifth. To license and regulate or prohibit and to CQ conduits and electric conductors of every kind, underneath Provided, further, that the certificates of indebtedness or suppress billiard, pool, pigeon-hole tables, pin alleys, bowling the streets, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds and places of bonds issued for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, regulating, alleys, and shooting galleries. the City, and to regulate and, if it is deemed necessary, to Twenty-sixth. To license and regulate the exhibition of maintaining, extending, enlarging or improving water 03 prohibit the construction and maintaining of coal holes, manholes common showmen and shows of all kinds, and the exhibitions and light plants or either of such plants, owned, maintained and hatchways and other openings in the sidewalks, of caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts, theatrical performances, and operated by the city, or for the purpose of acquiring any streets and alleys and the coverings and guards thereof. skating rinks and all places of amusement and museums, real or other property needed in connection with such plant Fifth. To regulate and provide for the removal or destruction for entrance into which money is charged. or plants, or any refundment of such certificates or bonds, throughout the city or in such districts or on such streets Twenty-seventh. To license and regulate auctioneers, shall not be considered as a portion of the indebtedness of the and avenues and in such manner as the Council may direct, pawnbrokers, second-hand dealers and junk dealers and to city for the purposes of this section. of any and all swill, offal, garbage, ashes, street sweepings, compel all such persons to keep such records of their transactions Provided, further, that the City Council may set aside annually barnyard litter, manure, rubbish, and the contents of privy as it may direct, and make report thereof. such portion of the gross income from any water and vaults, cesspools and sinks, decaying animal matter and dead Twenty-eighth. To license and regulate newsboys, bootblacks, light works, or either, of the City, as they shall determine, to animals, or any other foul or unhealthy material, and to provide fortune tellers, clairvoyants, astrologists and massage create a sinking fund for the payment of any water and light for the removal, to a point beyond the City limits, of doctors. bonds, or either, as they become due. Twenty-ninth. To license and regulate or prohibit hackmen, any and all such matter or things and the City Council is Power to Levy Taxes and Make Assessments.—Section 18. draymen, expressmen, porters and all other persons engaged hereby authorized and empowered to make and enter into It shall have the power to fix the rate of, subject to the a. in carrying passengers, baggage or freight, and to regulate contracts with persons or corporations for such removal of restrictions in this charter contained, and levy and collect their charges therefor, and to prescribe standing places such material and substances or any of them, upon such terms general and special taxes for municipal purposes on real and or stations within the streets or near railway stations where and conditions as it may deem best for any time not to exceed personal property in the city, and to levy assessments for local the same may remain while waiting for business, and to prohibit UJ two years. improvements, and to prescribe the procedure in making improvements a Sixth. To provide for and regulate the construction and the same from standing or waiting for business at any and assessments therefor, in so far as the same other place than the places so prescribed. use of pavements, sidewalks, cross-walks, curbs and gutters. is not fixed and prescribed by the terms of this charter. Seventh. To regulate and prevent the use of streets, alleys, Thirtieth. To license and regulate or prohibit all peddlers, Condemnation.—Section 19. It shall have power to acquire, book agents, canvassers, street walkers, venders and public sidewalks and public grounds for signs, sign-posts, awnings, by condemnation, dedication or otherwise, lands for and to awning-posts, telegraph, telephone and electric light poles, criers doing business in the city. lay out, open, widen and extend streets, alleys, avenues, bridge Thirty-first. To tax, license and regulate distillers, breweries horse troughs, racks and other obstructions, the posting and approaches, parks and public grounds, and to establish the distributing of handbills and advertisements to remove and and pawnbrokers. grade and width of such streets, alleys and avenues and to Thirty-second. To license and regulate all traffic in spirituous, abate any nuisance, obstruction or encroachment upon the change the same and to acquire by condemnation or otherwise vinous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors in said walks, streets, alleys and public grounds, and to regulate and easements for slopes, cuts and fills by condemnation or city to define and establish the territorial limits within which prevent the encumbering of the same with vehicles, boxes, otherwise to extend or widen any street, alley or highway over UJ and the number of saloons at which such traffic may be carried lumber or any other things to provide for and regulate the or across or to construct any sewer under or through, any on to prohibit all persons from vending or otherwise erection of hitching posts and rings for fastening horses, and railroad track, right of way or land of any railroad or other disposing of or dealing in such liquors in said city without to prohibit the same in any portion of the City. corporation, and to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, first obtaining a city license to do so to prescribe the manner Eighth. To regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying the right to take, use or divert water from any lake, stream in which and the conditions under which such licenses may of banners painting, posting, distributing or placing of or water course for water supply of said City. be granted and issued to regulate all saloons and other places placards, advertisements, handbills or other articles upon telegraph, Improvement of Streets.—Section 20. It shall have power where any such liquors are sold or kept for sale and the manner telephone or electric light poles, or in or upon the UJ to extend, widen, straighten, grade, drain, pave, repave, macadamize of doing business therein and to prescribe days and hours streets, alleys, sidewalks and public places. or otherwise improve any street, alley or public during which such saloons or other places shall be kept closed Ninth. To regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners ground, and to lay or order laid sidewalks, curb and gutter and during which no such liquor shall be sold or disposed of and signs across or over the streets, alleys and public places thereon, also to establish a building line for any residence CO therein or elsewhere in said city, and the powers conferred and to regulate, license or prohibit the construction and use avenue or streets, and to prevent the erection of buildings in upon said City Council in and by this subdivision shall be of bill-boards and signs adjacent to or near the streets, alleys front of such line, but no such building line shall be established exclusive. and public places or upon any vacant lot or other property. on any street or avenue until a majority of the owners Thirty-third. To license and regulate butchers' stalls and Tenth. To regulate and prohibit traffic and sale upon the of the property affected thereby fronting on such street or shops and stands for the sale of game, poultry, meat, fish and streets, sidewalks and public places. avenue have petitioned the City Council therefor. perishable provisions. Eleventh. To regulate the speed of horses and other animals, Maintaining and Altering Water Courses and Lakes.—Section Thirty-fourth. To license and regulate plumbers and to bicycles, cars, locomotives, automobiles and other vehicles 21. It shall have the power to build and maintain bridges regulate sewer and water connection of all kinds and the laying within the limits of the City, and to compel persons to and viaducts, to deepen, widen, dock and cover, wall, alter or of branch sewer and water pipes. fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehicles, or change the channel of any water course within the city, and Thirty-fifth. To license, regulate and control or prohibit otherwise, while standing in the streets, alleys or public places. by condemnation or otherwise, to acquire the land and rights the carrying of concealed weapons and provide for the confiscation Twelfth. To regulate and prescribe the maximum weight necessary therefor, and may remove any obstructions or of the same. of a load to be drawn over any bridge or street in the city, unsightly structures from any pond or water course in the Thirty-six. To regulate and license the keeping of dogs, and to direct upon what streets heavy loaded vehicles or traction city and to prevent the dumping of any garbage therein. and to prevent the same running at large, and to authorize engines may be drawn or propelled, and from what streets, Approval of Plats.—Section 22. It shall have the sole the destruction thereof in a summary manner. bridges, alleys and public places the same may be excluded. power to accept and approve plats of additions within or adjoining Thirty-seven. To regulate and prevent the storage of gun Thirteenth. To regulate and control or prohibit the placing the City, and to prescribe the width and location of powder, dry pitch, rosin, coal oil, benzine, naphtha, gasoline, of poles and the stringing of wires along or across the streets and alleys required in such plats of property. turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin, or any product thereof, streets and alleys, and to require any and all wires within Light, Water and Transportation Plants.—Section 23. It and other combustible or explosive materials within the city, prescribed limits within the city to be placed, as it may shall have the power to provide for the lighting of streets, and the use thereof, and of lights in stables, shops and other designate, beneath the surface of the streets or sidewalks, and avenues and public grounds and buildings, and to purchase, places, and the building of bonfires and to regulate and restrain to require any poles already erected or wires already suspended acquire or establish gas, electric and other lighting plants, and the use of firecrackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky to be removed and the wires likewise to be placed in to furnish gas, heat and electricity to persons within or without rockets, and other fireworks to prohibit the discharge of firearms, conduits beneath the surface of the streets, and to compel any the City limits on such terms as it may provide to purchase, fire crackers, rockets or other similar projectiles within and all such wires, pipe and other constructions and conduits procure or establish water works and to provide water the limits to be defined by the City Council, and to designate to be placed in a common area beneath the surface upon for the use and convenience of the inhabitants of the City or limits within which no exhibition or display of fireworks shall such terms as it may designate. others, and to prescribe and fix the charges for the same and be made. Fourteenth. To name and change the name of streets, I the manner in which the same shall be paid and to provide Thirty-eighth. To provide for the licensing of house alleys and other public places. for systems of public transportation within the City, and to movers and to prescribe the time and manner of moving buildings I regulate the operation thereof. It shall, also have the power Fifteenth. To regulate and prohibit the use of all ditches, in the public streets of the city. Ito make contracts, with: individuals, .firms or corporations for drains, sewers/privies and cesspools within the city, or in Thirty-ninth. To prevent and suppress riots, bouts, affrays, si 'ft AmU/ffir littoMiji iM» •K