The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-11

| newspapers printed and publSneu II saiu
CITY. ten days before the same Snail TAKE
erect: provided, that whenever the com
mon council shall cause a revision oi thS
ordinances of the city to be maae, anu
shall direct the same to be pupiSheu IN q
printed volume, lit shall not be necessary
to publish such revised ordinance n a
every ordinance or resoIuslon
passed by the common couneli nan ,psuvsS
II takes effect, be presented, duly certtled
fby the city clerk, to the mayor II ne ap--
proves the same shall sign 1t, ana Wno,i y
he do not approve 1t, shall return u, Will
| his objections, to the clerk within Iye
days after the presenting thereof ana y ne
do not return it with such opJectlonS Will
in the time above speesl IN 6im y, ~ syhs
! any ordinance or resolution shall nave
been returned with, objections aforesaid
to the common council, the saia cotnhi nrni
council shall, at its first meting tners-
after, order the objections 10 pc enI
tered at length on its journal and snail
proceed to reconsider the same ana y,
| council by a vote of two-thirds OF all
the members, it shall take erect not
withstanding such objections; in All sucn
cases the votes shall be taken by ayes
and nays and entered in full on the
| journal of said council; the pupheations
of all ordinances as herein reqqireu
been made until the contrary shall be
proved; the publication of private or,
dinances shall in all cases be pr9cure9
to be lone and the expense Thereon
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or applying therefor.
IA. And be it enacted, h the enacting
clause of all ordinances shall pc rs
II ordained by the common council 81
the city of -" Gnserting herein the
name of the city in which this act shah
Is. And be it enacted, That the coun-
cilmen of any city in the state duly
elected by the several wards tnereoI
shall constitute and be called The COM
non council of the city of - lnserI-
|. ing herein the namesof the city in which
this act shall TAX effect,
Is. And be it enacted, the common
council of all cities in this state shall
nave power within the said city to make
establish, publish, modify, amend or re-
peal ordinances, rules, regulations ana
bylaws for the following purposes tho
finances and property, real and personal,
of the city; to borrow money and negoe
tate temporary loans, in anticipation OF
axes or other revenues for any current
year, and for payment of any public i'm
provement, not exceeding the amount OF
the specified assessment for such I'M
provement.
II. To prevent vice, drunkenness and
immortality: to preserve public peace and
good order; to prevent and quell riots,
disturbances and disorderly assemblages.
III. To restrain and suppress disorderly
and gaming houses and houses OF III
fame; all instruments and devices for
gaming, and to prohibit all gaming and
~fraudulen devices.
". To license and regulate restaur-
ants, victualing houses or cellars, ale
and lager beer saloons and gardens, bill
lard tables and bowling alleys, and TO
prohibit the keeping of thesame, except
by persons duly licensed.
V. To prohibit, restrain, regulate and
license all sports, exhibitions of natural
or artificial curiosities, caravans of ami
mails. theatrical exhibitions, circuses or
other public performances and exhibit
lions for money, and fix the sums to be
paid for such licenses to the city treas
urer.
VI. To ascertain n establish the
boundaries of all streets, avenues, high
ways, lanes and alleys and public places.
in said city, M prevent and improve all
encroachments upof said streets. avenues
highways, lanes, alleys and public places.
VII. To regulate, clean and keep in re-
pair the streets, highways, avenues, lanes
alleys, public places. bridges, wharves n
docks in such city, and to prevent and re-
move distractions and membranes IN
and upon all streets, highways, Sidewalks
crosswalks, bridges, sewers, drains, aque-
ducts, water courses, wharves, docks ana
other public places in any name what
ever; to prescribe the manner in which
corporations or persons shall exercise any
privileges granted to them in the use of
any street avenue, highway or alleysin
said city, or in digging up an street, ave-
nue., highway aor alley for the purpose OF
laying down. pipes or any other purpose
whatever, and to prohibit n prevent
anysuch use or such work at such times
and seasons of the year as they may 0eS-
ignate; direct and regulate the planting,
rearing, trimming and preserving OF or
namenta1 shade trees in the streets, ave-
nues, parks and grounds of the city, and
10 authorize or prohibit the removal or
destruction of such shade trees. ana
to enforce the removal of snow, ice or
dirt from the sidewalks and cutters by
the owners or occupants OF the prem
ises fronting thereon:
VIII. To open streets and to grade,
pave or otherwise improve the same; to
widen, level, grade, flag, or refag, curb
or recurb, gutter or regutter, pave or
repave, or gravel the sidewalks and gut
tiers; to lay drains or construct sewers
in any street, avenue, highway or sec
ton thereof; to prescribe the manner
in which any such work shall be per
formed, and the mode in which the costs
damages n expense thereof shall be
ascertained, and to cause such costs,
damages and expense, or any proportion
thereof, to be assessed in just and equit-
able proportions or the owners OF the
property. whether improved or unim-
proved, receiving benefit from such inn
provement, and to determine the time
and manner in which such assessments
shall be collected.
TX. To direct the digging down, drains
ing, filing up or FENCING OF lots, pieces
shall be deemed dangerous or funwhole-
some, or necessary to carry out any inn
provement authorized by this act; to
prescribe the nj in which the
work shall be performed, and to cause
the expense thereof to be assessed in
just and equitable proportions on the
lOtSt VI D1CCcS OI pdICtlS. IL SlOuAlQt
whether improved or unimproved, bene-
flied thereby, to the extent .of~the pc
culiar benefits conferred, and to deter
mine the time and manner in which such
assessment shall be collected;
x. To prevent or regulate the erection
or construction of any steop, step, plat
form, bay window, cellar door, area,
descent into a cellar or basement, sign
or any post or erection, or any projec-
ton or otherwise, in, over upon any
street or avenue, and to remove the
same where already erected, at the ex-
pense of the owner OF occupant of the
premises.
To prevent and punish horse racing
and immoderate driving or riding in any
street, highway or public place, and to
authorize the stopping and OBTAINING any
person who 2shallQbe guilty of immoder-.
ate driving or riding in anystreet, high
way or public place and to regulate the
speed and running of locomotive engines
and railroad cars, motor, electric or
other cars through said city, and desig-
nate the crossing at which any railroad
company shall be required by the COM
mon councilyto station fagmen or sig
mails to warn travellers of the approach
of locomotive engines or railroad cars;
XII. To prohibit the driving any drove.
or droVes of cattle through any of the
streets of the city on the first day Of
the week commonly called Sunday, and
to regulate the same; at other times;
E XIII. gTo regulate, protect, and i'm
prove the parks, public burial grounds
and other public grounds in said city;
XIV. To provide lamps, gas fixtures
and other means of illumination, andto
light the streets, parks and public
places of every description in said city;
XIV. To make and regulate wells, pumps
a~queducts and cisterns in the public
streets;