regulate processions or parades occupying or marching upon any street; to prevent encroachments upon and obstructions to the streets and to authorize and require their removal by the proper officers; to regulate the opening of street surfaces for purposes authorized by law; to regulate and control the laying, maintaining, alteration and repair of subways, conduits, mains and pipes in and under the streets; to require cables and wires in the public streets, to be placed underground; to regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes; garbage or other filth or rubbish of any kind upon the streets; to regulate the use of the streets for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, horse troughs, urinals, posts for telegraph or other electric wires, trolley poles and other purposes; to regulate public criers, advertising, noise; steam whistles, and ringing bells in the streets; to regulate the exhibiting of banners, placards or flags in or across the streets or from houses or other buildings; to regulate the exhibition and distribution of advertisements or handbills along the streets; and to make such regulations in reference to the running of stages, omnibuses, trucks and cars as may be necessary for the convenient use of the streets and of piers, wharves or stations. Whenever the word "street" or the plural thereof occurs in this section it shall be deemed to include avenue, road, alley, lane, highway, boulevard, concourse, public square and public place, or the plurals thereof respectively, whenever the word "vehicle" or the plural thereof occurs in this section it shall be deemed to include wagons, trucks, carts, cabs, carriages, stages, omnibuses, automobiles, street cars, locomotives, bicycles, tricycles, sleighs or other conveyances for persons or property. 7. To establish and maintain a public pound; to restrain the running at large of animals and poultry; to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the fees and costs thereof; to prescribe the manner of impounding or selling animals and poultry impounded; and to collect all costs. and expenses from the owners thereof. 8. To grant rights and franchises to use the streets, highways and public places or any part thereof, or the space above or underneath them for any purpose whatever, upon such terms as it may deem proper and as may be permitted by law. 9. To provide for constructing, extending, altering, repairing, rebuilding, maintaining and caring for public sewers and drains within or without the limits of the city, and the drainage of swamps and lowlands. 10. To provide for constructing, building, altering, rebuilding, repairing, maintaining and caring for sewerage disposal plants within or without the limits of the city. 11. To provide for constructing, building, rebuilding, repairing, maintaining and caring for bridges, arches and culverts. 12. To provide for constructing, altering and repairing the walls along the banks of any river, stream or water course within the city and improving, altering, changing, repairing and cleaning the beds and banks thereof. 13. To establish and define the boundaries and grade of the natural water courses and streams in the city and to prevent obstructions and encroachments in or upon the same, and to provide for and compel the removal of all obstructions, encroachments and deposits in and to the same. 14. To provide for laying out, enlarging, opening, ornamenting, equipping, improving, maintaining, caring for, and regulating the use of public squares, parks and playgrounds. 15. To provide for acquiring, constructing, maintaining and regulating the use of public markets. 16. To provide for acquiring, constructing, building, altering, enlarging, improving, repairing, equipping, furnishing, maintaining and caring for buildings, for schools, libraries, hospitals, dispensaries, sanitariums, public baths, fire houses, police stations, lock-ups, a city hall, and for other city purposes, and acquiring sites therefor. 17. To provide for the leasing of buildings, or parts of buildings, for city purposes for a period not exceeding five years. 18. To provide for acquiring, constructing, building, rebuilding, altering, enlarging, improving, maintaining, caring for and regulating the use of public piers, docks and wharves; and establish rates and fees for wharfage or dockage. 19. To provide for lighting the public streets, squares, parks, playgrounds, public piers, docks and wharves, and public buildings of the city. 20. To provide for acquiring, developing, maintaining, operating, extending, improving and repairing a water works system for the city; acquiring and developing additional sources of water supply, building, operating and maintaining reservoirs, water towers, aqueducts, pumping stations, filtration beds and other appurtenances within or without the limits of the city, and for acquiring the lands needed therefor within or without the limits of the city, and to regulate the use of water. 21. To provide for maintaining a fire department, and acquiring all the necessary apparatus for the use and equipment of said department. 22. To provide for a police department. To preserve peace and good order, and to restrain, prevent, detect and punish vice, immorality and of all fraudulent devices and practices. 23. To restrain and prevent and to suppress disorderly and gambling houses and rooms and all instruments for gaming. 24. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars and persons soliciting alms, keepers of houses of ill fame, common prostitutes, bawds, and disorderly persons, and to prevent and punish drunkenness and disorderly or immoral conduct. 25. To prevent any riot, noise, or public disturbance and all disorderly assemblies. 26. To authorize policemen, firemen or other city officers to enter any and all buildings and enclosures at proper times to make examinations and recommendations for the prevention of fire or to make inspections as to the safety of such buildings or enclosures. 27. To establish and maintain public schools. 28. To establish and maintain libraries, hospitals, dispensaries, sanitariums and public baths. 29. Subject to the constitution and laws of the state, to provide for licensing and otherwise regulating auctioneers, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, dealers in secondhand articles, hawkers, venders, peddlers, scalpers in coal freights, dirt carts, public cartmen, truckmen, hackmen, cabmen, expressmen, car drivers, bootblacks, porters, scavengers, sweepers, theaters, bowling-alleys, shooting-galleries, billiard saloons, skating rinks, circuses, menageries, and other places of amusement and common shows; bone boiling, fat rendering and other noxious business. The common council shall establish uniform fees for licenses and shall prescribe the manner in which such licenses shall be issued. 30. To regulate the rates of fares to be taken by owners or drivers of hackney coaches, carriages, motors, omnibuses or other vehicles for public hire. 31. Subject to the constitution and laws of the state, to provide for licensing and otherwise regulating the carting, carrying, keeping, storing, selling or using gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine and other explosives, kerosene, petroleum and other combustibles and dangerous materials, and to prevent the manufacture thereof and the refining or preparing of combustible oils or fluids, or bone boiling, fat rendering or other noxious business, either within the limits of the city or except in a specified area. 32. To regulate the sale of milk and provide for the inspection thereof, and of dairies where the same is produced, to fix the fees for such inspection to be paid by the producer or seller, and to prohibit the sale of milk within the city without such inspection. 33. To prohibit the use within the city of steam boilers, except upon such conditions and regulations regarding the safety to life. and property as it shall prescribe; to provide for the inspection and testing of steam boilers; to provide for the appointment and to prescribe the duties of an inspector of boilers and steam engines; to provide for the licensing of steam engineers or persons managing or operating steam engines or boilers. 34. To regulate, or to prohibit, the emission of smoke, noxious gas, deposits or other pollution from buildings, engines, boats and from all other sources. 35. To regulate and prescribe the manner of weighing and marketing hay, straw, wood, coal and other commodities, and to regulate the inspection and sealing of weights and measures. 36. To cause to be made and to adopt a map of the city, subdivided into wards or sections of wards, and to cause to be designated thereon and to be numbered the different lots and parcels of land contained in such sections, with the names of the owners thereof, as far as can be ascertained. 37. To adopt building ordinances, and to prohibit the erection, construction or repair of buildings, docks, wharves and piers within the city except in compliance therewith; to fix and from time to time extend the area to be included in the fire limits, and to prohibit the erection or construction therein of buildings, except in compliance with such ordinances as to construction and material as it may prescribe. The common council shall not pass any special ordinance in relation to any of the matters mentioned in this sub-division. All ordinances in relation thereto shall be general ordinances which may be applied throughout the whole city or throughout specified portions thereof. 38. To regulate the use of all buildings used for the purposes of public assemblage, and to prohibit the use of such buildings except in compliance with its requirements for the safety and security of persons therein; to raze or demolish any building or erection which by reason of fire or any other cause may become dangerous to human life or health. 39. To provide for the collection, removal and disposal of garbage, ashes, dead animals and rubbish; all contracts therefor shall be made puuant to section one hundred and twenty of the second class cities law, and may be for a period not exceeding five years; to provide for the erection of crematories or other apparatus for the burning and destruction of garbage, dead animals and other substances, and acquiring sites therefor. 40. To determine what are nuisances, and to prevent, abate and remove them. 41. To prevent and punish the discharge of firearms, rockets, fireworks, gunpowder or other explosives. 42. To regulate and prescribe what shall be sufficient and lawful fences. 43. To compel all persons to remove snow, ice and dirt from sidewalks in front of premises owned or occupied by them, and tc punish the encumbering of streets and sidewalks with carriages, carts, sleds, sleighs, wheelbarrows, boxes, wood, lumber, timber, or other substances or material whatsoever. 44. To compel the owner or occupant of any market, grocery, cellar, shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, slaughter house, barn, privy, sewer, or other nauseous building or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, whenever and as often as it shall deem necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the city. 45. To compel the owner or occupant of any building or wall in said city, which may be in a ruinous or unsafe condition, to render the same safe, or to remove said building or wall. 46. To require the removal or destruction of any dead carcass or other unwholesome or offensive substance, or substance likely to become unwholesome or offensive, from any street, lot, or building, by the owner or occupant thereof. But no dead carcass shall be thrown or deposited in the Mohawk river or any other stream or upon the banks of said river or other stream. 47. To take such measures as it shall deem necessary to prevent the introduction into the city, or the spreading therein, of any pestilential or infectious disease, and to cause any persons not residents of the city, infected with any such discase, to be removed to some suitable and proper house or hospital within the city, to be nursed and treated for such disease. 48. To require any building, fence or other erection which may be placed within or erected upon the line of any street or high 2 Common council may impose penalties. Neglect of owner or occupant perform act re way in the city, without authority, to be removed therefrom by the owner or occupant; but the common council may permit the use and occupation of streets, sidewalks, or public places for such business or public purpose as shall not interfere with the reasonable and substantial uses of the same by the public, upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper and it may likewise permit steps, porches, show windows, bow windows, columns, pilasters and ornamental portions of any building to encroach upon any street to a specified extent, where the same will not interfere with the reasonable and substantial use thereof by the public. 49. To have and exercise full and complete supervision and control over all slaughter houses within the city, and to prevent the erection, maintenance or operation of any slaughter house within the city limits elsewhere than the banks of the Mohawk river westerly of Schuyler street or easterly of Park avenue. The common council is hereby authorized and empowered to require and order the removal of all slaughter houses from the city limits, as aforesaid by the owner or occupant thereof. § 2. The common council is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce observance of all ordinances, by-laws, regulations and resolutions which it is by law permitted to pass in order to carry into effect the powers vested in it, by the imposition of penalties on the person violating the same, not exceeding two hundred dollars for one violation. Whenever the owner, occupant or person in control of any lands or real property shall omit, neglect of lands to or refuse to do any act required by statute or by ordinance, to be done by such owner, occupant or person in control in front of or upon such lands or real property, the city may cause such act to be done, and in addition to any fine or penalty prescribed may recover by civil action of such owner, occupant or person in control, the cost of doing the act, or it may assess the same upon such lands or real property; and the assessment shall be and constitute a lien thereon to be collected and recovered in all respects as an assessment for a local improvement. The common council shall by ordinance determine the proceedings and manner of fixing and assessing such costs. quired. Ordinances for sale § 3. Every ordinance of the common council making or authoror lease of izing the sale or lease or personal property belonging to the city shall, before it takes effect, be submitted to and approved by the board of estimate and apportionment. personal property. Regulation of street § 4. The common council shall have authority to regulate the railroads. operating and running of street cars through any of the streets of the city; to cause the company or companies or persons owning or operating street cars, street railroads or tracks to keep the part of the streets occupied by them in good condition, and whenever in the opinion of the common council it shall be necessary, or proper, to cause any such company, companies or persons having two or more tracks laid through any street, to remove such track, or tracks, in excess of one track and whenever the common council shall determine to pave any street in which a |