2238                               Municipal Charters

erty, rights, and privileges; for the preservation of peace and good order;
for securing persons and property from violence, danger or destruction;
and for the protection and promotion of the health, safety, comfort, con-
venience, welfare, and happiness of the residents of the town and visitors
thereto and sojourners therein.

(2)   Specific powers.—The council shall have, in addition, the power
to pass ordinances not contrary to the laws and Constitution of this
State, for the following specific purposes:

(3)  Advertising.—To provide for advertising for the purposes of the
town, for printing and publishing statements as to the business of the
town.

(4)  Aisles.—To regulate and prevent the obstruction of aisles in
public halls, churches and places of amusement and to regulate the con-
struction and operation of the doors and means of egress therefrom.

(5)    Amusements.—To provide in the interest of the public welfare
for licensing, regulating, or restraining theatrical or other public amuse-
ments.

(6)   Appropriations.—To appropriate municipal monies for any pur-
pose within the powers of the council.

(7)   Auctioneers.—To regulate the sale of all kinds of property at
auction within the town and to license auctioneers.

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

(9)  Billboards.—To license, tax and regulate, restrain or prohibit
the erection or maintenances 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 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 dan-
gerous 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 municipality 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 com-
munity 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 munici-
palities, counties, districts, bureaus, commissions and governmental