The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-29

To Regulate the Speed of Vehicles.
(34) To regulate the speed of railroad trains, engines
and cars passing through the City, and the speed OF cars
of street or interurban railways using the streets OF the
City, to require railroad companies to station fagman, place
deem proper, to require street cars and local trains to be
provided with tenders, or other appliances for the better
protection of the public. to prohibit the making up OF rail-
road trains on any of streets, street crossings or street inter
sections OF the City; to regulate the speed at which per
sons may ride, drive or propel bicycles, automobiles or
other vehicles along or upon any of the streets or highways
of the City.
Banners, Advertisements and Signs and Traffic on Public
Streets.
of banners, placards or advertisements, and the distribu-
ton of hand bills on the streets, public grounds or side
walks. To regulate and prevent the flying OF banners,
flags or signs across the street or from houses; to regulate
or prohibit traffic and sales in the streets and public places;
to prevent Entertainments upon, or distractions III, the
streets and to require their removal.
Use of Vehicles on Streets.
800 To regulate and prescribe the width OF tires on
wheels or vehicles used in the City, and the maximum
and to direct upon what streets heavily loaded vehicles
may be drawn, and from what streets, avenues and boule-
wards the same shall be excluded.
To Require Removal of Rubbish from Sidewalks and
Grounds.
(3) To compel the owner or occupant of buildings or
grounds to remove snow, ice, dirt, rubbish and weeds from
the sidewalks and grounds adjacent thereto; and in his
default, to authorize the removal thereof, by some officer
of the City, at the expense of such owner or occupant, and
to make such expense a lien upon such buildings or grounds.
Binboards, Signs, Licensing.
(3S) To regulate, license or prohibit the construction
and use of billboards and signs.
Running at Large of Animals.
(59) TO regulate and prevent the running at large OF
dogs; to prevent dog fights in the streets; to provide for
the destruction OF vicious dogs and to require the payment
of license fees by the owners or persons having possession
of dogs, and to impose penalties upon such persons Tor re-
fusng to pay such license fees.
Public Pounds.
(4o) To prevent or regulate the running at large of any
animals and fowls, and to establish and maintain a pound
and corrals and to authorize the destruction or other dis
position of animals and fowls running at large.
Cruelty to Animals.
(41) To prohibit and punish cruelty to animals and to
require the places where they are kept to be maintained
in a clean and healthful condition.
Preservation of Health. Infectious Diseases.
(42) To make all regulations which may be necessary
and expedient for the preservation OF health and the sup
preston of disease; to make regulations to prevent the IN
diseases into the City; to make quarantine laws and regu-
lations; TO regulate, control and prevent the entry into the
City of persons, baggage, merchandise or other property
infected with contagious disease, and to provide for care of
INDECENT sick and injured persons.
Regulation and Operation of Manufactures Affecting Pub
lie Health.
(43) To regulate or prohibit the operation of all man
ufactories, occupations or trades which may be OF such
nature as to affect the public health, or good order Of the
City, or disturb the public peace, or which may be offensive
or dangerous to the inhabitants residing in the vicinity, and
to provide for the punishment of all persons violating such
regulations, and the punishment of all persons who know
ingly permit the same to be violated in any public building
or upon any premises owned or controlled by them; to
make regulations for the suppression OF disagreeable, Of
fensive and injurious noises.
Inspection o rOOO.
44 To provide for and regulate the inspection and
sale OF meats, poultry, fish, game, bread, butter, cheese,
lard, eggs, vegetables, breadstufS, milk and other food
products offered for sale in the City, and to provide for
the taking and summary destroying OF any such products
as are unsound, spoiled, adulterated or unwho1esome, and to
regulate and prevent the bringing into the City or keeping
within the City any such unsound, spoiled, adulterated or
unwholesome% products.
Inspection of Diaries.
(45) To provide for and regulate the inspection of all
diaries, milk and cream depots that offer for sale any of
their products in the City.
Inspection of Hotels.
(46) To provide for the inspection and regulation of
restaurants, hotels, bakeries and butcher shops.
Sanitation. Tenements.
az To regulate lodging, tenement and apartment
houses, and to prevent the overcrowding of the same. and
to require that they be put and kept in proper sanitary con-
dition.
Licensing Plumbers.
repair and use of sewers, sinks, cutters, wells, ~cesspools
and vaults, and to compel the connecting, cleaning and
emptying of the same, and to designate the time and man
ner in which the work shall be done.
Safeguarding Excavations and Public Grounds.
(49) TO regulate and safeguard excavations to be made
cavations made in the streets or public grounds where
pavements are laid shall be filled and relaid by the City,
at the cost of the party applying to make the same.
Collection and Disposal of Garbage.
(50) To provide for the collection and disposal of
garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals
animal offal, rubbish and waste matter.
Transient Traders, Peddlers and Second Hand Dealers.
SD To regulate, control and license transient mer-
chants, peddlers, second hand and junk dealers, book
agents and canvassers doing business in the City.
Regulating Auctions and Sales.
(52) To license and regulate gift, fire, auction or bank
rupt sales, and to license and regulate porters, runners
agents and solicitors for carriages, hacks, cars and public