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(12)    To make agreements with other municipalities, counties, dis-
tricts, bureaus, commissions, and governmental authorities for the joint
performances of or for cooperation in the performance of any governmental
functions.

(13)    To prohibit the youth of the City from being in the streets,
lanes, alleys, or public places at unreasonable hours of the night.

(14)    To compel persons about to undertake dangerous improvements
to execute bonds with sufficient sureties conditioned on the payment of all
damages resulting from such work which may be sustained by any persons
or property.

(15)    To regulate the keeping of dogs in the City and to provide 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.

(16)    To require the inspection and licensing of elevators and to
prohibit their use when unsafe or dangerous or without a license.

(17)    To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, oil, or any
other explosive or combustible matter; to regulate or prevent the use of
firearms, fireworks, bonfires, explosives, or any other similar things which
may endanger persons or property.

(18)    To compel the occupant of any premises, building or structure
situated in the City, when the same has become filthy or unwholesome, to
abate or cleanse the condition; and after reasonable notice to the owners
or occupants to authorize such work to be done by the City.

(19)    To levy, assess, and collect ad valorem property taxes; to expend
municipal funds for any public purpose; to have general management and
control of the finances of the City except to the extent that responsibility
therefor is delegated by this Charter to the City Manager.

(20)    To suppress fires and prevent the dangers thereof and to estab-
lish and maintain a fire department; to contribute funds to volunteer fire
companies serving the City to inspect buildings for the purpose of reducing
fire hazards, to issue regulations concerning fire hazards, and to forbid
and prohibit the use of fire-hazardous buildings and structures permanently
or until the conditions of City fire-hazard regulations are met; to install
and maintain fire plugs where and as necessary and to regulate their use;
and to take all other measures necessary to control and prevent fires in the
City.

(21)    To inspect and to require the condemnation of, if unwholesome,
and to regulate the sale of, any food products.

(22)    To grant and regulate franchises to electric light companies,
gas companies, telegraph and telephone companies, transit companies,
taxicab companies, community antenna television companies and any other
which may be deemed advantageous and. beneficial to the City. No such
franchise shall be granted for a longer period than fifty years.

(23)    To prevent the deposit of any unwholesome substance either
on private or public property, and to compel its removal to designated
points; to require slop, garbage, ashes and other waste or other unwhole-
some material to be removed to designated points, or to require the occu-
pants of the premises to place them conveniently for removal.

(24)    To accept gifts and grants of funds from the Federal, State or
County governments or any agency thereof, or any other source and to
expend the same for any lawful public purpose, agreeable to the conditions
under which the gifts or grants were made.