114 fl.ijl "-1' fV- 'w.- rSw-'• INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. disturbances* disorderly assemblies, cock fights, dog fights, packing houses, renderies, tallow chandlers, store houses for formance of any work required to be done, and material to be sparring matches and all brutal or depraving exhibitions or hides, bone or glue houses, gas works, soap factories, dye furnished in carrying into execution its powers and the operations sports. houses and tanneries, within the limits of the city, or within of its departments. Fortieth. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, the distance of one mile without the limits thereof. Provided, however, that the city council may authorize the street beggars and prostitutes, and to regulate bathing and Fifty-ninth. To direct the location and regulate the use doing of the same by the employees of the city under the swimming in waters within the city limits, and to prevent and rn and construction of breweries, dispensaries, stables, livery direction of the department in charge of such work or building punish drunkenness, fighting, assaults, batteries and disorderly stables, blacksmith shops and foundries within the city limits. when the cost thereof shall not exceed three hundred ($30000") conduct and obscenity in the city and to prohibit within the dollars. Sixtieth. To declare what is a nuisance and to prohibit city the circulation, sale or exhibition of libelous, obscene any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within And provided, that where proposals have been received for and immoral publications, prints, pictures, advertisements and one mile of the limits of the city. the doing of any public work, if the lowest of such proposals illustrations, and any printed matter naturally tending to provoke is higher than the estimate of the cost of such work, the city C/ Sixty-first. To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar, a breach of the peace or imperil the morals of the community. council may, if it deem it for the best interests of the city so or soap and tallow chandlery, pig-sty, privy, or other unwholesome to do, by a two-thirds vote of all its members elect, direct or noxious house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove Forty-first. To prohibit and suppress bawdy and disorderly such work to be done by day's labor. the same, and to regulate and prescribe the location houses and houses of ill-fame and assignation within the limits Advertisements.—Section 33. It shall let no contract for thereof. O of the city, and to provide for the arrest and punishment of the performance of work or the furnishing of material or supplies the keepers, inmates, and patrons thereof, and persons who or property or lighting service involving the expenditure Sixty-second. To regulate or prohibit the keeping of any visit the same for lewd or immoral purposes. of more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars by the city, nor lumber yard, and the places of piling timber, wood, and Forty-second. To restrain and prohibit lotteries, and to authorize the purchase or sale of any property of a other combustible materials within the fire limits of said oreater prohibit all descriptions of gambling and playing cards, dice, value than three hundred ($300.00) dollars, nor gram any city and to require any person maintaining any lumber, shingles, hazard, roulette, slot machines and other games of chance public fianchise, nor authorize the sale or negotiation of any or lath piles or mill woodyards in the city to remove the use of blackboards, lists and tickets for the purpose of bond or evidence of indebtedness issued by the citv nor the same when they become dangerous to any building or gambling all pool rooms and betting rooms and the selling designate any depository for the public money of the'city buildings or other property near the same. of pools and riiaking of books on horse races or other contests, except upon advertisements for proposals thereof as provided real or fictitious to suppress and prohibit all mechanisms Sixty-third. To establish and enforce rules for the use and by law. P° and devices used for gambling or betting to prohibit all regulations of all buildings maintained in the city. Contract to Lowest Bidders.—Section 34. It shall let all fraudulent practices and the use of fraudulent devices, and Sixty-fourth. To prevent and regulate the rolling of hoops, such contracts to the lowest responsible bidder (except as to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the playing of ball, flying of kites or any other amusement or provided in section 8, chapter 16, of this charter), who will purpose of gambling or other unlawful purposes aforesaid. practice having a tendency to annoy, persons on the streets enter into the contract and give security for the performance Forty-third. To prevent the running at large of horses, or sidewalks, or to frighten horses, and to regulate the use thereof, and shall let no contracts to any party in default to mules, sheep, cattle, swine and poultry, and -authorize the of bicycles and other vehicles on the sidewalks and streets. the city in the pei formance or by reason of any other contract. empounding and sale of such animals and poultry when found Sixty-fifth. To do all acts and make all regulations which It shall sell all property, bonds and other evidence of running at large contrary to ordinance, and to fix the limits indebtedness only to the highest bidder for cash therefor and may be necessary and expedient for the preservation of health within which no swine shall be kept. shall not sell nor negotiate any such bond or evidence of indebtedness and the suppression of disease, and to make regulations to prevent Forty-fourth. To regulate and prevent the cutting of ice below its par value, the same being its face value the introduction of contagious, infectious or other diseases in waters in or adjacent to the city, and to compel the erection and accrued interest. It shall designate as city depositories in the city, and to make quarantine laws, and to enforce of fences around all ice cuttings, and to prevent the sale only such duly incorporated banks or trust companies in this the same within the city, and to regulate, prevent and of impure ice within the city. state as shall furnish the bonds required by law, and shall be control the landing of persons, baggage, merchandise or property Forty-fifth. To establish and regulate the location of markets satisfactory to the city council. from cars, boats or other conveyances, whereon are infectious and market houses and to provide for the use thereof. Bonds of Contractors.—Section 35. It shall require of every or contagious diseases or disorders, and to make c/ Forty-sixth. To regulate the sale and making of bread and party entering into a contract with the city or any of its such disposition of such persons or property as to preserve prescribe the weight and quality of the bread in the load, and departments or accepting any license, immunity, privilege or the health of the city, and to prevent infected cars, boats to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary franchise from or under the city pursuant to any power or or other conveyances from coming within or near the limits thereto. of the city. authority herein vested, a bond to be approved by the city O Forty-seventh. To provide for and regulate the inspection council foi the full and faithful performance of such contracts of meats, poultry, fish, game, butter, cheese, lard, eggs, vegetables, Sixty-sixth. To establish and regulate public wells, cisterns, or the just and lawful exercise of the powers and privileges flour, meal, milk, fruits and other provisions and to hydrants and reservoirs. conferred, which bonds shall be sufficient in amount to indemnify provide for the taking and summarily destroying of any the city against any loss or damage that may be Sixty-seventh. To regulate and control the quality and such provisions which are unsound, spoiled or unwholesome. sustained by a breach of contract, or any wrong committed measurement of gas, and to prescribe and enforce regulations Forty-eight. To provide for and regulate the place and in the exercise of such power or privilege. for the manufacture and distribution of gas, and to inspect manner of weighing hay and straw and selling the same, and Advertising for Proposals.—-Section 36. Every advertisement ,1 gas and gas meters, and to control and regulate the measurement (M- measuring and selling firewood, coal and lime. for proposals shall be made by publication in the official and use of electricity and electrical apparatus for the Forty-i*inth. To provide for a standard of weights and newspaper of the city, at least twice, of a notice containing furnishing of light, heat and power in the city. measures and for the inspection and sealing of all weights and a general description of the contract to be let or the property Sixty-eighth. To establish offices for inspectors, weighers, measures and to enforce the keeping and use by venders of to be purchased or sold, or bond or other indebtedness to be O gaugers, scalers, electricians, market masters, wharf masters, weights and measures duly tested and sealed. negotiated, or funds to be deposited, or franchise to be granted, quarantine masters and such other officers as may be necessary Fiftieth. To prescribe the limits within which wooden and shall invite sealed proposals therefor, which proposals to carry into effect the inspection laws of the city and buildings shall not be erected, or placed, nor repaired without shall be filed with the city clerk at such time as shall be designated c/ the powers herein granted and to regulate the duties of said permission and to direct that all and any buildings within such in said advertisement, not less than one (1) week, officers and to authorize and direct said officers to enforce and fire limits, when damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to the after the last publication. All proposals shall be opened and carry into effect the provisions of any ordinance passed hereunder. extent of fifty (50) per cent of the value shall be torn down •u read by the city clerk in the presence of the city council before .i.&iiiiittli C/ and removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining any of the same are acted on or accepted. Sixty-ninth. To prohibit and punish cruelty to animals and such damages find to provide for requiring the owners of Designation of Official Papers.—Section 37. The city council to require the places where such animals are kept to be maintained buildings or other structures which shall have been destroyed shall biennially, at its second regular meeting or as soon in healthful condition and to inspect and regulate or partially destroyed by fire or otherwise, to take the same thereafter as practicable, designate some newspaper printed dairies and dairy products, and to regulate persons engaged or any part thereof down, to prevent accident, and in case in the English language, which is and shall have been printed, in selling milk within the city. of refusal or neglect of said owners to so take the same down published and of general circulation in the city, for one (1) 73 Seventieth. To regulate and require licenses to be obtained when ordered by the officers designated by said city council, year prior to its designation as the official paper of the city, for the pursuit and prosecution of such occupation or then to cause the same to be done at the expense of the and shall let the contract for publishing the ordinances and kind of business not hereinbefore expressly referred to and owner, the cost thereof to be made a special, assessment on proceedings of the council, and other public notices required provided for, as in the opinion of the city council may require the land on which said buildings stand, and collected as other by law to such newspaper, as other contracts are required regulation, and, in general, to adopt all such measures special assessments. to be let. The compensation paid for printing shall never and to establish all such regulations, in cases where no express Fifty-first. To regulate the construction of all buildings exceed two-thirds of the amount allowed by law for provision is hereinbefore made, as the city council \vithin the fire limits of said city, and by such regulations to legal advertising. \Vhenever in the city no newspaper is published shall from time to time deem necessary for the promotion of prescribe the depth of cellars, the material and method of any paper printed in the English language and published the health, comfort and safety of the inhabitants, the preservation construction of foundations and foundation walls and area in Koochiching County may be designated as the official paper. of peace and good order, the suppression of vice and enhancement walls, manner of construction and location of drains and sewer Provided, that if each and all proposals shall fix a price in of public welfare in said city. pipes, the thickness, material and construction of party walls, excess of the maximum, as herein provided, or if no proposal Seventy-first. To license, regulate and control the employment additions and outside walls, the size, material and construction shall be received, then in either event the city council may or occupation of minors on the public streets and other of floor beams, girders, piers, columns, roofs, chimneys, adopt such other methods for publication of ordinances, proceedings places. flues and heating apparatus, and all other parts of the structure, and other matters as it may determine, the compensation Seventy-second. To compel the owners or keepers of vacant and to apportion and adjust such regulations to the size in no event to exceed the amount herein provided. property within the city limits, to keep the same clear and height of the buildings to be erected to regulate the Power to Enter Private Property.—Section 38. It may authorize of any brush, timber, or other material or substance, liable construction and location of privies and vaults in such buildings the entry into any lands or tenements for the purpose to, receive or communicate fire to adjoining property, afid in to prohibit the construction of buildings within said limits of carrying into effect its inspection laws and may enter upon case the owner or owners of such property shall neglect or not conforming to the prescribed regulations to provide any land to lay any branch sewer or water main, or drain refuse to remove the same within ten days after being notified for the appointment of an inspector or inspectors of buildings any marsh, or make any changes or erections in, upon or about so to do by the city council, either personally or by one within said limits and to require all persons intending any water course. publication in the official newspaper of the city, the city to erect buildings therein first to submit to such inspector or council shall have the authority to have the same done at the inspectors the plans and specifications thereof, and to obtain Vacation Of Streets.—Section 39. The city council of expense of the owner or owners, and in case such owner or from him or them a permit for the erection thereof and to said city shall have the sole and exclusive power to vacate or owners shall refuse to pay such expense, shall have the right authorize such inspector or inspectors to enter, examine and discontinue public grounds, streets, alleys and highways to assess the same against said property, and to make, enforce, within said city. inspect any building in process of construction within said and collect such assessments as other assessments for No such vacation or discontinuance shall be granted or limits, and to direct the suspension of work on any such local improvements, for benefits, are made, enforced and collected. ordered by the city council, except upon the petition of one building, the construction or material whereof does not conform to the prescribed regulations. Provided, however, that or more residents and freeholders of said city such petition Seventy-third. To provide for the levy and collection of neither said council or any inspector of said city shall have shall set forth the facts and reasons for such vacation accompanied poll tax within the city. by a plat of such public grounds, streets, alleys the power to control or regulate the construction of any Other Powers.—Section 27. The city council shall prescribe building erected by the United States or the State of Minnesota. or highways proposed to be vacated, and it shall be verified by ordinance all regulations proper and necessary to carry by the oath of the petitioners. into effect any and all powers granted by this charter, and The city council, shall, thereupon, if they deem it expedient, Fifty-second. To require the owner or lessee of any building may provide by such ordinances for the punishment of the that the matter shall be proceeded with, order the petition or structure now or hereafter built in the city, to place violation of any of the same by subjecting the offender to to be filed of record with the City Clerk, who shall thereon such fire-escapes and appliances for protection against pay a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or to give notice by publication in the official paper of the city for •or for the extinguishment of fires as it may direct, and to be confined and kept at hard labor in the work house of four (4) weeks, at least once a week, to the effect that such require such owner or lessee to do any act necessary or advisable the city, or upon the public works, or to be confined in any petition has been filed as aforesaid, and stating in brief its to lessen the danger to him in life in case of fire or place of confinement maintained by the city, or in case there object and that said petition will be heard and considered accident. j&Mljk, is no such place, then to be confined in the county jail of by the city council or a committee appointed by them, on a Fifty-third. To prevent the dangerous construction and Koochiching County, not to exceed the term of ninety (90) certain day therein specified, not' less than ten (10) days condition of. chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stovepipes, days, and may provide that such imprisonment may be cumulative from the expiration of said publication. ovens and boilers, and apparatus used in and about any building or for 'an indefinite term, not to exceed ninety (90) The city council or such committee as may be appointed or manufactory, and to cause the same to be removed or days subject to suspension or termination by reason of or by them, for the purpose, at the time and place appointed placed in a safe condition when considered dangerous to during good behavior of the person so imprisoned. shall investigate and consider the said matter and shall regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactures, dangers Revocation of License.—Section 28. The city council shall hear the testimony and evidence on the part of the parties and causing or permitting fires To prevent the depositing have power to revoke any license granted by it. interested. of ashes, or accumulation of shavings, rubbish or other Granting of Franchises, Etc.—Section 29. No exclusive If, after having heard the testimony, and evidence, the combustible material in unsafe places. And to cause all such or perpetual franchise or privilege shall ever be granted. city council shall determine in favor of such vacation, it shall buildings and enclosures as may be in a dangerous state to Protection of Streets, Etc.—Section 30. It shall have the then appoint three disinterested freeholders of said city, no be placed in a safe condition, and to make provisions to guard power to punish any person wilfully damaging any sidewalk, two of whom shall reside in the same Ward, as commissioners against fire and to prevent the spreading of fire. pavement or appurtenance to the water works or sewerage to view the premises and to ascertain and aWard the system, or to any other property in or upon the public works Fifty-fourth. To regulate the construction, location and amount of damages and compensation to be paid to the owner of the city, and shall have power to punish interference with operation of derricks, windlasses, freight and passenger elevators, of property which may be injured by such vacation, and or the withholding any property of the city by any officer and other mechanical structures, and apparatus or to assess the benefits which may accrue to the lands and property thereof, or any party, and to require any officer, member or operations hazardous to life or property. which may be benefitted by such vacation, and in proportion employee of any department to produce the books and accounts to the benefits to be received. Fifty-fifth. To declare what shall be a nuisance, to abate thereof at any time for inspection and examination, the same, apd to impose fines upon parties who may create, Two of such commissioners shall constitute a quorum and at the expiration of the time for which elected, appointed and be competent to perform any duty required of such continue or suffer nuisances to exist. or employed to turn over the same and all property in his commissioners Fifty-sixth. To provide for and compel the reporting and possession to the proper custodian thereof or to his successor They shall give notice by two publications in the official recording of all births and deaths within the city. in office, and to require reports at any time from any person paper of said city that such survey and plat is on file in the Fifty-seventh. To regulate or prevent the burial of the of the condition or operation of the business under his management. office of the City Clerk for the examination of all persons interested, deal within the city, and to regulate and determine the manner and that they will, on a day designated in such notice, in which bodies, having been buried in a vault or tomb Appointment by Ballot.—Section 31. The appointment of which shall be at least ten days after the first publication or other place for the purpose of burial, may be removed, any officer by the city council shall require an affirmative of said notice, meet at a place designated in said notice and to regulate and control the location of cemeteries and vote of a majority of all its members, taken by ballot, or by on or near the proposed improvement and view that portion crematories, and to vacate and cause the removal of bodies interred roll call and recorded by the clerk. of the street proposed to be vacated, and ascertain and award in any cemetery not existing according to law. Letting of Contracts.—Section 32. It shall have power to therefdr the damages and compensation, and assess thereon Fifty-eighth. To direct the location and, regulate the management Jet contracts for the erection, improvement and-repair of any the benefits actually accruing to such property as may be and construction of stock yards, slaughter houses, of the public wojr^s .|Dr, buildings of the city, and for ,the per- benefited by reason of such vacation and that they will then W I