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in such city without a license first obtained therefor, and to
regulate the construction of buildings to prevent the spread of
fire; to authorize and require the inspection of buildings and
structures erected, or to be erected, or in process of erection;
to authorize the license therefor to be revoked and the con-
demnation thereof, in whole or part, when dangerous or inse-
cure, in the opinion of the building committee or such party
as the Council may appoint to inspect the same, and to
authorize the same to be taken down within a specified time
by the owner thereof, or in default thereof to authorize the
same to be taken down at the said owner's expense, or in case
of an emergency to authorize the same to be taken down for
such party as the Council may appoint without delaying the
owner to do so; to compel persons about to undertake dan-
gerous improvements to execute bonds of sufficient sureties,
conditioned that the owner or contractor will pay all dam-
ages which may be sustained by any person or property
from such work; to make all regulations which may be
deemed expedient for the promotion of health or suppres-
sion of diseases; to regulate the construction of chimneys,
smoke-stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and
stovepipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings or other
places, and cause the same to be removed or made secure
when considered dangerous; to suppress, restrain and regu-
late bawdy houses and houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the
youth of said city from being on the streets, lanes or alleys at
unreasonable hours of the night; to restrain and prohibit
gambling; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by
imposing fines, or both fine and imprisonment at hard labor,
and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said
city which are so defined at common law or by statute!
whether the same are herein specifically named or not.
STREETS.
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Construction
and inspection
of buildings,
etc.
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Sec. 181A. To prevent immoderate or careless driving or
riding; to regulate the use of streets or alleys by vehicles,
and designate the kind of conveyances and vehicles which
may not use designated streets, which have been improved,
together with hours for the use of such streets by certain
specified class of vehicles; to prevent the encumbering of
streets, alleys, squares, sidewalks and crossings with vehicles,
horses or any substance or material interfering with the free
use of the same; to regulate the speed of horses and wheeled
vehicles; to regulate and protect all bridges, culverts, tunnels,
viaducts, aquiducts, sewers, canals and hydrants wholly or
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Regulate the
use of streets
by vehicles,
etc.
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