Council

Section 25.

The City Council shall have the power:

1. To license, tax, and regulate auctioneers, taverns, hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, hacks, cabs, hackneys, carriages, carts or drays, or other vehicles, washhouses, laundries, and all offensive or noxious trades or occupations;
   
   
2. To license and tax any lawful business, calling, trade, occupation, or employment that the general law of the state does not exempt and public good or benefit may require to be licensed or taxed, and enforce the provisions of safe and adequate means of ingress and egress from places of public or private assembly;
   
   
3. To license or withold license; to tax, regulate, and restrain barrooms, drink shops, billiard and pigeonhole tables, bowling alleys and shooting galleries, and to prohibit and repress bawdy houses and places where opium is smoked, and gambling;
   
   
4. To prohibit gambling houses, gambling devices, nickel-in-the slot machines, and all other games of chance. (Note: This is as amended by the Legislative assembly of Oregon in 1905. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State February 3, 1905. Codifier.)
   
   
5. To license, tax, regulate, and restrain theatrical and other exhibitions, circuses, shows, and other public amusements and games;
   
   
6. To tax and regulate the keeping of dogs and other animals and fowls; to prohibit animals and fowls from running at large, and to provide for impounding and killing of dogs on which the tax is not paid;
   
   
7. To define, prevent, and remove nuisances at the cost of the person who maintains or permits such nuisances, and to make the cost of such removal a lien upon the property where such nuisance exists; and to make the maintenance of a nuisance or its sufferance to exist, a misdemeanor;
   
   
8. To prohibit the building and use of barbed wire fences; to make the building and use of the same a misdemeanor;
   
   
9. To provide for the establishment of market houses and places, and regulate the location and management of market houses, places, and slaughterhouses, livery and feed stables, blacksmith shops, fruit driers and hop kilns; and to prevent and punish cruelty to animals;
   
   
10. To prohibit the smoking of cigarettes by any person under the age of eighteen years, and to declare such smoking by such persons to be a misdemeanor.
    
    
11. To provide for the prevention and removal of obstructions from streets, alleys, and lanes, crosswalks, sidewalks, and pavements, and for the cleaning and repairing of the same at the expense of the owner of the property abutting thereon, or at the expense of the city, as the council may declare by resolution;
    
    
12. To make regulations to prevent the introduction or spread of contagious diseases in the city; to remove persons infected with such diseases therefrom to a suitable hospital provided by the city for that purpose, and to provide for health, cleanliness, ornament, peace, and good order of the city;
    
    
13. To provide for and regulate the numbering of houses and lots on the streets, and the naming of the streets and avenues;
    
    
14. To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, gasoline, natural or artificial gas and all other combustible or explosive materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in stores, shops, stables, and other places; to suppress, remove, or secure any fire place, stove, chimney, oven, boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire, and to make the maintenance of such menace a misdemeanor;
    
    
15. To provide for the erection of a city jail, house of correction, and workhouse, and for the government and management of the same, and for the restraint, support, and employment of paupers and vagrants;
    
    
16. To prevent, restrain, and punish any riot, noise, disturbance of the public peace and quiet, disorderly assembly, unlawful or indecent practices, obscene, abusive or insulting language, or language tending to cause a breach of the peace, or any other disorderly conduct in any street, house, or place in the city, and define what shall constitute the same;
    
    
17. To punish assault, assault and battery, and assault with a dangerous weapon;
    
    
18. To regulate the use of guns, air guns, spring guns, pistols, sling shots, bean shooters, and any and all other devices for discharging missiles which might cause bodily harm or injury to property, fireworks, bombs, detonating works of all kinds;
    
    
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20. To provide for the organization of a fire department, and the control and government thereof; to establish fire limits, and to do all things necessary for the prevention or extinguishment of fires.
    
    
21. To purchase, take, and hold real property when sold for a delinquent tax or assessment levied or imposed under the authority of Falls City, and to sell the same;
    
    
22. To establish and regulate the fees and compensation of all officers and employees of this municipal corporation, including viewers, commissioners, policemen, judges, and clerks of election, except when otherwise provided in this act;
    
    
23. To provide for the collection and disbursement of all moneys to which the city may become entitled by law, including license and fines;
    
    
24. To appropriate money and pay the debts, liabilities, and expenditures of the city, and any part or item thereof, from any fund applicable thereto, and to temporarily transfer money from one fund to another fund of the city, in case of emergency, by resolution of the council;
    
    
25. To provide for the survey of the boundaries of the city and all streets, lots, and blocks within such boundaries, and to have plats made of the same, and adopt such plats as the official plats of the city for city purposes;
    
    
26. To alter and establish the grade line of streets in the manner provided in section 70 of this act;
    
    
27. To provide by ordinance for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up, wholly or in part, any street, square, lane or alley within Falls City: Provided, that whenever any street, square, lane, or alley shall be laid out, opened, straightened, or widened, the council shall, within thirty days, cause to be recorded in the office of the county clerk of Polk County an accurate plat and a full and definite description of the same, and of the property so appropriated to public use: Provided further, if any street, square, lane or alley be vacated, wholly or in part, a certified copy of such vacating ordinance shall be filed for record in the office of the said county clerk, and he shall record the same in the record of deeds for the said county, and shall place an appropriate reference upon the margin of the plat or plats of said street, square, lane, alley, or part thereof, so vacated, to indicate the book and page where such vacation shall be recorded;
    
    
28. To improve streets and construct sidewalks and pavements, and collect the cost thereof, in the manner provided in sections 50 to 68 inclusive of this act;
    
    
29. To lay sewers, drains, and ditches at the expense of the owners of property benefited thereby, in the manner provided in section 71 of this act, or at the expense of the city;
    
    
30. To grant franchises to street railways, motor lines, or other common carriers; to regulate the running of cars on such railway or motor line; to fix the rate of fare or passage thereon; Provided; the ordinance granting such franchise must specify with particularity the streets and public ways to be used, the provisions under which the same may be used, and the term for which such franchise is granted:
    
    
31. To grant franchises to telegraph and telephone lines, including power to use the streets and alleys of the city for the erection of poles and stringing of wires, subject to the regulation and control of the council;
    
    
32. To provide the city with good and wholesome water for domestic, fire and power purposes, and for the erection, construction, or purchase of such water works and reservoirs, within or without the limits of the city, as may be necessary or convenient therefor;
    
    
33. To grant to any private person, or to any private corporation a franchise or permission for the erection or construction of water works within the city, and with all rights and powers pertinent thereto, including the right to use the streets and public ways for the purpose of laying pipes and other necessary appurtenances. Such franchise shall be used under such rules, and regulations and restrictions, including the rate to be charged for such water, as the council may from time to time prescribe;
    
    
34. To grant to any private person or corporation a franchise or permission for the erection or construction of light works within the city, and with all rights and powers appurtenant thereto, including the rights to use the streets and public ways for the purpose of laying pipes, erecting poles and stringing wires and other necessary apparatus. Such franchise shall be used and exercised under such rules, regulations, and restrictions, including the rate to be charged for such light, as the council shall from time to time prescribe;
    
    
35. To prescribe the duties and powers of the city treasurer, city attorney, city surveyor, street commissioner, and other such officers as may from time to time be elected, in addition to the duties and powers of such officers given in this act; to fix their salaries or compensations, or both in addition to the compensation prescribed in this act;
    
    
36. To require an official bond from any and all city officers for the faithful performance of their duties, and to fix the amount thereof;
    
    
37. To determine and regulate the number of day and night police, or either of them; to provide for paying the same, and to regulate and fix their compensations;