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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 condemnation thereof in whole, or
in part, when dangerous or insecure , in the opinion of
the building committee, or such party as the said 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 by the
street superintendent or such party as the Council may appoint,
without delaying for the owner to do so. To compel persons
about to undertake dangerous improvements to execute bond
of sufficient sureties, conditioned that the owner or contractor
will pay all damages 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 disease. To regulate the construction of chimneys,
smoke stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and stove
pipes, boilers, and apparatus used in buildings or other places,
and cause the same to be removed or made secure, when con-
sidered dangerous ; to compel owners and occupants of houses
and buildings to make scuttles on the roof thereof with stairs
or ladders leading to the same, and to compel the erection of
fire escapes. To authorize and require the inspection of gas
pipes, water pipes, plumbing, drainage, sewage and electric
lines or wires on private property or elsewhere ; to compel
them to be repaired or made secure by the owner or occupant,
and on failure of such owner or occupant to do so, to authorize
or require the gas or electric current to be shut off from the
same until such repairs are made. To regulate and prohibit
the keeping of any lumber yard, and the placing or piling of
any lumber, wood or other combustible material within the
fire limits. To suppress, restrain and regulate 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 gaming. To punish
and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines, or both
fine and imprisonment at hard labor, and to abate by appro-
priate ordinances all nuisances in said city which are so defined
at common law, whether the same are herein specifically named
or not.
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