2090                                Municipal Charters

serve as such unless the Council shall designate some other person. The
City Manager may designate an officer of the City to perform his duties
during his temporary absence or disability. In the event of failure of the
City Manager to make such designation, the Council may, by resolution,
appoint an officer of the City to perform the duties of the City Manager
until he shall return or his disability shall cease.

19. a. The Council shall have the following powers to the extent that
their exercise is not specifically prohibited by Constitution or statute.

(1)    To provide for advertising for the purposes of the City.

(2)    To regulate and prevent the obstructions of aisles in public halls,
churches, places of amusement and other places open to the public and to
regulate the construction and operation of the doors and means of egress
therefrom.

(3)    To provide for licensing, regulating, or restraining theatrical
or other public amusements.

(4)    To appropriate municipal monies for any purpose within the
powers of the Council.

(5)    To regulate the sale of all kinds of property at auction within the
City and to license auctioneers.

(6)    To establish a municipal band, symphony orchestra, or other
musical or cultural organization, and to regulate by ordinance the conduct
and policies thereof.

(7)    To license, tax and regulate, restrain or prohibit the erection or
maintenance of billboards within the City, the placing of signs, bills and
posters of every kind and description on any building, fence, post, billboard,
pole, or other place within the City.

(8)    To regulate the erection, construction, repair or reconstruction
of buildings in the City and to require building permits for the same; 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.

(9)    To regulate or prohibit the operation of cemeteries and the in-
terment of bodies within the City.

(10)    To codify, or re-codify, in permanent or looseleaf form,
from time to time, any or all of the laws and ordinances of the City, and the
City Charter, and such other laws or ordinances as they may deem appro-
priate for inclusion in such codification, and to publish periodic supplements
to any such codification. In the process of codification or re-codification,
the Council shall have the power to amend or repeal any or all of the ordi-
nances or resolutions of the City heretofore or hereafter adopted, by
changes, alterations, amendments or deletions in any codification, or any
supplement thereto. Except as may otherwise be required, by law, no notice
of any such amendment or repeal shall be required, other than notice of
the adoption or approval of such codification, re-codification, or supplement
thereto.

(11)    To provide, maintain, and operate community and social serv-
ices for the preservation and promotion of the health, recreation, welfare,
and enlightenment of the inhabitants of the City.