9. To levy and collect annually a property tax, which shall be apportioned as follows: For the general fund, not exceeding sixty cents on each one hundred dollars; for street fund, not exceeding thirty cents on each one hundred dollars; for school fund, not exceeding twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars; for sewer fund, not exceeding ten cents on each one hundred dollars. The levy for all purposes for any one year for all purposes to which such funds are applicable shall not exceed one dollar on each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of all real and personal property within such city.

10. To license, for purposes of regulation and revenue, all and every kind of business, including the sale of intoxicating liquors, authorized by law and transacted or carried on in such city, and all shows, exhibitions, and lawful games carried on therein; to fix the rates of licenses upon the same, and to provide for the collection of the same by suit or otherwise.

11. To improve the rivers and streams flowing through such city, or adjoining the same; to widen, straighten, and deepen the channels thereof, and to remove obstructions therefrom; to improve the water front of the city, and to construct and maintain embankments and other works to protect such city from overflow.

12. To erect and maintain buildings for municipal purposes. 13. To permit, under such restrictions as they may deem proper, the laying of railroad tracks and the running of cars drawn by horses, steam, electricity, or other power thereon, and the laying of gas or water pipes in the public streets, and to construct and maintain, and to permit the construction and maintenance of telephone, telegraph and electric light lines therein.

14. In its discretion to divide the city, by ordinance, into a convenient number of wards, not exceeding five, to fix the boundaries thereof, and to change the same from time to time; provided, that no change in the boundaries of any ward shall be made within sixty days next before the date of said general municipal election, nor within twenty months after the same shall have been established or altered. Whenever such city shall be divided into wards, the board of trustees shall designate by ordinance the number of trustees to be elected from each ward, apportioning the same in proportion to the population of such ward; and thereafter the trustees so designated shall be elected by the qualified electors resident in such ward, or

by the general vote of the whole city, as may be designated in such ordinance.

15. To appoint and remove such policemen and such other subordinate officers as they may deem proper, and to fix their duties and compensation.

16. To impose fines, penalties, and forfeitures for any and all violations of ordinances, and for any breach or violation of any ordinance to fix the penalty by fine or imprisonment, or both, but no such fine shall exceed three hundred dollars, nor the term of such imprisonment exceed three months.

17. To cause all persons imprisoned for violation of any ordinance to labor on the streets, or other property or works within the city.

18. To establish fire limits, and the same to alter at pleasure; to regulate or prevent the erection of wooden or other buildings or structures of combustible materials; to regulate the construction of all buildings, shades, awnings, signs, or any structure of a dangerous or unsafe character; to provide, by regulation, for the prevention and summary removal of all filth and garbage in the streets, sloughs, alleys, backyards or public grounds of such city, or elsewhere therein; to regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder and combustible or explosive materials of every kind and nature within the city limits, and to prescribe the limits in which the same may be kept or stored. 19. To do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and to exact and enforce within the limits of such city all other local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as do not conflict with general laws. [Sec. 764 amended April 16, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 937; in effect immediately.]

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CHAPTER VII.

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MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS OF THE SIXTH CLASS. [Cities having a population of not exceeding 3,000 inhabitants.]

[Subdivisions and 13 provide for granting contracts and franchises.]

SEC. 862. The board of trustees of said city shall have power:

1. To pass ordinances not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States.

2. To purchase, lease, or receive such real estate situated inside or outside of the city limits and personal property as may be necessary or proper for municipal purposes, and to control, dispose of, and convey the same for the benefit of the city or town; provided, they shall not have power to sell or convey any portion of any water front.

3. To contract for supplying the city or town with water for municipal purposes, or to acquire, construct, repair, and manage pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works necessary or proper for supplying water for the use of such city or the inhabitants, or for irrigating purposes therein.

4. To establish, build and repair bridges; to establish, lay out, alter, keep open, improve, and repair streets, sidewalks, alleys, and other public highways, squares and parks, and places within the city or town, and to drain, sprinkle, oil, and light the same; to remove all obstructions therefrom; to establish the grades thereof; to grade, pave, macadamize, gravel, and curb the same, in whole or in part, and to construct gutters, culverts, sidewalks, and crosswalks therein, or on any part thereof; to cause to be planted, set out, and cultivated, shade trees therein; and generally to manage and control all such highways and places; and in the exercise of the powers herein granted to expend, in their discretion, the ordinary annual income and revenue of the municipality in payment of the costs and expenses of the whole or any part of such work or improvement.

5. To construct, establish, and maintain drains and sewers. 6. To provide fire engines and all other necessary and proper apparatus for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.

7. To impose on and collect from every male inhabitant between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, an annual street poll tax, not exceeding two dollars; and no other road poll tax shall be collected within the limits of the city.

8. To impose and collect an annual license not exceeding two dollars on every male dog, and four dollars on every female dog owned or harbored within the limits of the city.

9. To levy and collect annually a property tax, which shall not exceed one dollar on each one hundred dollars.

10. To license, for the purpose of revenue and regulation, all and every kind of business authorized by law and transacted

and carried on in such city or town, and all shows, exhibitions, and lawful games carried on therein; to fix the rates of license tax upon the same, and to provide for the collection of the same by suit or otherwise.

11. To improve the rivers and streams flowing through such city or adjoining the same; to widen, straighten, and deepen the channels thereof, and remove obstructions therefrom; to improve the water front of the city; to construct and maintain embankments and other works, to protect such city from overflow; and to acquire, own, construct, maintain, and operate on any lands bordering on any navigable bay, lake, inlet, river, creek, slough, or arm of the sea within the corporate limits of such city or contiguous thereto, wharves, chutes, piers, breakwaters, bath-houses, and life-saving stations.

12. To erect and maintain buildings for municipal purposes, and to acquire and maintain cemeteries, situated inside or outside of said city.

13. To acquire, own, construct, maintain, and operate street railways, telephone and telegraph lines, gas and other works for light, power, and heat; public libraries, museums, gymnasiums, parks, and baths, and to permit under such restrictions as they may deem proper, the laying of railroad tracks and the running of cars drawn by horses, steam, or other power thereon, and the laying of gas and water pipes in the public streets, and to permit the construction and maintenance of telegraph and telephone lines therein.

14. To impose fines, penalties, and forfeitures for any and all violations of ordinances; and for any breach or violation of any ordinance; to fix the penalty by fine or imprisonment, or both; but no such fine shall exceed three hundred dollars, nor the term of imprisonment exceed three months.

15. To cause all persons imprisoned for violation of any ordinance to labor on the streets, or other public property, or works within the city.

16. To establish and maintain fire limits, and regulate building and construction and removal of buildings within the municipality.

17. To issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, or the production of books or other documents, for the purpose of producing evidence or testimony in any action or proceeding pending before the board of trustees, which subpoenas must be signed by the president of the board of trustees and attested

by the city clerk and may be served in the same manner as subpoenas are served in civil actions. Whenever any person duly subpoenaed to appear and give evidence, or to produce any books or any documents as herein provided, shall neglect or refuse to appear, or to produce such books or documents, as required by such subpoena, or shall refuse to testify before such board, or to answer any questions which a majority thereof shall decide to be proper and pertinent, it shall be the duty of the president of the board to report the fact to the judge of the superior court of the county, who shall thereupon issue an attachment in the form usual in the court of which he shall be judge, directed to the sheriff of the county where such witness was required to appear and testify, commanding the said sheriff to attach such person, and forthwith bring him before the judge by whose order such attachment was issued. On the return of the attachment and the production of the body of the defendant, the said judge shall have jurisdiction of the matter, and the person charged may purge himself of the contempt in the same way, and the same proceedings shall be had, and the same penalties may be imposed, and the same punishment inflicted as in the case of a witness subpoenaed to appear and give evidence on the trial of a civil cause before a superior court.

18. To expend such sum as the board of trustees shall deem proper, not to exceed five per cent of the property tax levy in any one fiscal year, for music and promotion.

19. To do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this act. [Sec. 862 amended March 19, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 420; in effect immediately.]

(For sale of franchises by municipalities, see Franchises, page 573, ante, for act of March 2, 1905, stats. 1905, p. 777, as amended March 3, 1909, stats. 1909, p. 125.)

PERSONAL PROPERTY BROKERS.

See Brokers.

PUBLIC WELFARE.

See Health and Sanitation; see, also, Hospitals.