Powers Of The City Council

The city council in cities, and the president and the board of trustees in villages, shall have, among others, the following powers:

Forty-First

To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, keepers of ordinaries, theatricals and other exhibitions, shows and amusements and to revoke such license at pleasure.

Forty-Fifth

To suppress bawdy and disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame or assignation, within the limits of the city or within three miles of the outer boundaries of the city; also to suppress gambling, lottery and all fraudulent devices and practices; and to prohibit the sale or exhibition of obscene or immoral publications, prints, pictures or illustrations.

Forty-Sixth

To license, regulate, prohibit the selling or giving away of any intoxicating malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquor.

Forty-Eighth

The city council shall have the power to forbid and punish the selling or giving away of any intoxicating liquors to any minor, apprentice or servant, or insane, idiotic or distracted person, habitual drunkard or person intoxicated.

Fifty-Eighth

To regulate places of amusement.

Fifty-Ninth

To prevent intoxication, etc., and all disorderly conduct.

Ninety-Fifth

To tax, license and regulate second-hand and junk stores and to forbid their purchasing or receiving from minors, without the written consent of their parents or guardians, any article whatsoever.

Ninety-Seventh

To pass all ordinances, rules, etc., to carry into effect the powers granted the cities, with fines not to exceed $200 and imprisonment not to exceed six months, for one offense.

R. S.. ch. 24, sec. 62.