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CHAP. 649
General
powers
granted.
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division fences. (5) To restrain and prohibit by ordinance
all gambling or gaming, and the keeping of gambling houses
or tables therein, and to prescribe penalties for any such act.
(6) To erect and regulate markets and to make all proper
by-laws and ordinances in relation thereto. (7) To establish
and regulate fire companies, and, by ordinance, to prescribe
precautions and safeguards against fire, and to define and
appoint the parts and sections of the town to which measures
of precaution, as well as means for extinguishing fire, shall
apply. (8) To keep in repair sidewalks, gutters and roadways,
of the streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of said town.
(9) To regulate the terms and conditions upon which the
public water supply and public sewers of the said town may
be used and to establish a system of charges for the use
thereof, and to appoint such officers and employes as may
be necessary to conduct and manage the business of the
town water works, and to provide by ordinance for the pro-
tection of buildings, machinery, water pipes, hydrant, water
plugs, stand pipe and other property belonging to or con-
nected with the public water supply, and also for the pro-
tection of the public water supply of said town against
polution, obstruction and wastes, and to enforce all ordi-
nances by reasonable penalties. (10) To provide by ordi-
nance for arresting and committing to the lockup or to the
county jail of any vagrant or drunken person who may
appear on any of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares
or any place of public resort in said town, and any common
disturber of the peace, and by ordinance to punish all pro-
fane, indecent and obscene language in the hearing or in
the presence of other persons within the corporate limits.
(11) To declare and adjudge by order entered in the minute
book any encroachment and continuing obstruction of any of
the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said town to be
a public nuisance and to order the same to be corrected or
removed at the expense of the parties or persons who
brought about or placed the encroachment or obstruc-
tion thereon or who uses or takes advantage thereof or
who are responsible for the continuance thereof or who
by their connection therewith are the parties or per-
sons who ought to correct or remove the same, and on
refusal or failure of the person ordered to correct or
remove said encroachment or obstruction to remove or have
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