2814 ARTICLE 12.

1896, ch. 450, sec. 14.

353. Said Council may pass such ordinances not inconsistent with the
law, as they may deem beneficial and necessary for the preservation of
peace and good order and the enforcement of the provisions of this charter
and the best interests of the town; they may open and close streets, lanes
and alleys, and grade and pave the same, and their rights, powers and duties
in relation thereto shall be the same as is provided by the Code of Public
General Laws of this State for opening, altering and closing public roads
by the Board of County Commissioners, with right to appeal to the Cir-
cuit Court for the county; they may cause the streets to be lighted and
suitable sidewalks to be made and kept in repair along said streets, and if
the abutting lots are not improved by buildings the sidewalks shall be laid
in conformity with the other sidewalks adjoining the same. Such side-
walks shall be kept in repair by the owners of the lots adjoining thereto or
abutting thereon or at their cost and expense, in case the work is done by,
the Mayor and Council, shall be a lien on saiid property collectible as other
taxes; they may remove nuisances and obstructions from the streets, lanes
and alleys, restrain all disorder and disturbances, prevent all congrega-
tions of disorderly persons in public places, arpprehend all tramps and
vagabonds, impose a tax on dogs and fowls, hogs and other animals run-
ning at large in the streets, or totally prohibit the same, and may impose
fines and commit all offenders to the lock-up or county jail until the same
be paid with costs; and power and authority is hereby given to the Mayor
and Council of Loch Lynn Heights, and it shall be their duty to enforce
these provisions by fine, imprisonment, or both.

1896, ch. 450, sec. 15.

354. The Council shall provide a suitable lock-up within said corporate
limits to which all persons arrested under these provisions may be com-
mitted pending their examination or trial or upon conviction of any viola-
tion of the provisions hereof.

1896, ch. 450, sec. 16.

355. The Council shall have the same powers as the State Board of
Health of this State, within the corporate limits of said town, and 1/4 mile
outside thereof in every direction; except where the same will invade or
interfere with the corporate limits or authority of any other incorporated
town or village; and they may pass such ordinances, as they may deem
necessary for the preservation of the health of the town and removal of
all nuisances from or prohibition of all business within the corporate limits
thereof, as shall, in their opinion, injuriously affect the sanitary condition
thereof.

1896, ch. 450, sec. 17.

356. They shall have full power to regulate privies, and direct the
character of boxes or other fixtures for them, and the mode in which they
shall be emptied and contents removed, and the disposition made thereof,