2286 Municipal Charters
of signs, bills and posters of every kind and description on any building,
fence, post, billboard, pole or other place within the Town.
(10) (Bridges.) To erect and maintain bridges.
(11) (Buildings.) To make reasonable regulations in regard to build-
ings and signs to be erected, constructed, or reconstructed in the Town,
and to grant building permits for the same; to formulate a building code
and a plumbing code and to appoint a building inspector and a plumbing
inspector, and to require reasonable charges for permits and inspections;
to authorize and require the inspection of all buildings and structures
and to authorize the condemnation thereof in whole or in part when
dangerous or insecure, and to require that such buildings and structures
be made safe or be taken down.
(12) (Cemeteries.) To regulate or prohibit the interment of bodies
within the Town and to regulate cemeteries.
(13) (Codification.) To provide for the codification of all ordinances
which have been or may hereafter be passed.
(14) (Community Services.) To provide, maintain, and operate
community and social services for the preservation and promotion of the
health, recreation, welfare, and enlightenment of the inhabitants of the
Town.
(15) (Cooperative Activities) To make agreements with other mu-
nicipalities, counties, districts, bureaus, commissions, and governmental au-
thorities for the joint performance of or for cooperation in the perform-
ance of any governmental functions.
(16) (Curfew.) To prohibit the youth of the Town from being in
the streets, lanes, alleys, or public places at unreasonable hours of the
night.
(17) (Dangerous Conditions.) To compel persons about to undertake
dangerous improvements to execute bonds with sufficient sureties condi-
tioned that the owner or contractor will pay all damages resulting from
such work which may be sustained by any persons or property.
(18) (Departments.) To create, change, and abolish offices, de-
partments or agencies, other than the offices, departments, and agencies
established by this Charter; to assign additional functions or duties to
offices, departments, or agencies established by this Charter, but not in-
cluding the power to discontinue or assign to any other office, department,
or agency any function or duty assigned by this Charter to a particular
office, department, or agency.
(19) (Disorderly Houses.) To suppress bawdy houses, disorderly
houses and houses of ill fame.
(20) (Dogs.) To regulate the keeping of dogs in the Town and to
provide, wherever the County does not license or tax dogs, for the licensing
and taxing of the same to provide for the disposition of homeless dogs and
dogs on which no license fee or taxes are paid.
(21) (Elevators.) To require the inspection and licensing of ele-
vators and to prohibit their use when unsafe or dangerous or without a
license.
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