Chapter 54 - MUNICIPAL POWERS IN GENERAL

Section 23101 - Corporate powers to remain as heretofore, unless otherwise provided
Section 23102 - General powers
Section 23103 - Purposes for which ordinances may be enacted
Section 23104 - To levy and collect taxes for general purposes
Section 23105 - To levy additional taxes
Section 23106 - [Repealed]
Section 23107 - To levy license taxes
Section 23108 - To borrow money and increase debt
Section 23109 - To issue and apply bonds to funding of indebtedness
Section 23110 - To provide for sinking fund
Section 23111 - To provide for payment of debts and expenses
Section 23112 - To create offices and prescribe powers, duties and compensation of officers
Section 23113 - To require security from officers and agents
Section 23114 - To provide for removal of officers
Section 23115 - To regulate sidewalks
Section 23116 - To regulate porches, obstructions, etc
Section 23117 - To establish zones for construction and maintenance of signs over streets
Section 23118 - To regulate railway bridges, crossings, safety-gates and flagmen
Section 23119 - To maintain night watch and police
Section 23120 - To regulate police and impose fines, etc
Section 23121 - To provide lock-ups or watch-houses; detention of prisoners therein
Section 23122 - To erect and maintain public buildings, hospitals, etc
Section 23123 - To impose and collect charges for hospital treatment
Section 23124 - To protect persons and property at places of public resort
Section 23125 - To offer rewards for detection of criminals
Section 23126 - To collect a license tax from public exhibitions
Section 23127 - To levy a license tax upon street railways, etc
Section 23128 - To regulate public bathing
Section 23129 - To regulate public vehicles and transportation
Section 23130 - To suppress tippling houses, etc
Section 23131 - To prevent and restrain riots, disturbances, etc
Section 23132 - To arrest vagrants
Section 23133 - To prevent horse-racing, fast driving or riding, or dangerous games in streets, etc
Section 23134 - To establish and regulate market houses and market places
Section 23135 - To regulate auction sales
Section 23136 - To collect a license tax from street venders
Section 23137 - To regulate the weighing and measuring of commodities
Section 23138 - To provide for construction of levees, ferries, wharves, etc
Section 23139 - To establish and change the channels of watercourses
Section 23140 - To purchase land and levy special taxes for public parks
Section 23141 - To acquire playgrounds
Section 23142 - Damages and benefits
Section 23143 - To provide pens, pounds, etc., and to regulate the running at large of animals
Section 23144 - To tax and destroy dogs
Section 23145 - To secure the general health
Section 23146 - To establish a quarantine
Section 23147 - To set aside portions of parks as sites for certain institutions or schools
Section 23148 - To purchase land, not included in city limits, for hospitals
Section 23149 - To purchase fire engines and organize fire department, etc
Section 23150 - To regulate the construction of fire places, chimneys, etc., in certain buildings, and regulate certain trades
Section 23151 - To provide for building inspection
Section 23152 - To provide for lighting of streets and the numbering of houses
Section 23153 - To have exclusive right to supply city with light; to contract for lighting
Section 23154 - To have exclusive right to supply city with water; to contract for supply of water
Section 23155 - [Repealed]
Section 23156 - To regulate foundations and party walls
Section 23157 - To regulate partition fences
Section 23158 - To make and enforce all necessary ordinances, regulations, etc.; penalties
Section 23159 - To regulate or prohibit barb wire fences
Section 23159.1 - To appropriate moneys to nonprofit art corporations
Section 23160 - To appropriate money for service on Memorial Day and Independence Day
Section 23161 - To regulate traffic
Section 23162 - To designate one-way streets; to close certain streets to vehicles and animals
Section 23163 - Regulation by Department of Public Safety; operation of street cars excepted
Section 23164 - Regulation of smoke
Section 23165 - To construct and maintain street railway lines
Section 23166 - To lease said lines to persons or corporations
Section 23167 - Emergency loans; power of mayor and controller to negotiate; limitation
Section 23168 - Sale of short term notes by cities of second class
Section 23169 - Prevention of damages from floods by cities of second class
Section 23170 - Appropriations and expenditures
Section 23171 - Powers of cities in emergencies
Section 23172 - Procedure for purchasing; sale to inhabitants
Section 23173 - Termination of emergency
Section 23174 - Contracts without advertising and competitive bidding
Section 23175 - Contributions to museums of fine art or natural history