Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-01
HOME RULE FAVORED
FOR RCITIESOF STATE
BY MANY OFFICIALS
City Clerk Charles A. Miller, Believes Would Solve Many
of Present Difficulties and Problems; Bill Suggested
For Enactment by Legislature at Coming Session

by the grantor or donor and accepted
by the city.
4. To levy and collect taxes for any
public or municipal purpose.
0. To become indebted for any pub
lie or municipal purpose and to issue
therefor the obligations of the city. to
determine upon the form and the
terms and conditions therefor, and to
pledge the faith and credit of the city
for payment of principal and interest
thereof, or to make the same payable
out of or charge or lien upon speci-
hc property or revenue; to pay or
comprise claims equitably payable by
the city, though not constituting o.
legations legally binding on it, but 1t
shall have no power to waive the de-
Tense of the statute of limitations or
TO grant extra compensation to any
public officer, servant or contractor.
6. To establish and maintain sink
Ing funds for the liquidation of prin-
cipal and interest of any Indebtedness,
and to provide for the refunding of
any Indebtedness other than certifi-
Gates of indebtedness or revenue bonds
issued in. anticipation of the collection
of taxes for amounts actually con-
tained or to be contained in the taxes
for the year when such certificates
or revenue bonds are issued or in the
taxes for the year next succeeding, and
payable out of such taxes
Z. To lay out, establish, contract,
maintain, operate, alter and discon-
tinue streets, sewers and drainage sys-
TENS, water supply systems and light
ing systems, public and private build
inSs and public places, and to lay out,
establish, construct, maintain and op-
crate markets, parks. Fairgrounds and
public places, and upon the discon-
tinuance thereof to sell and convey OF
lease the same.
8. To control and administer the
water front and waterways of the city
and to establish, maintain, operate and
regulate docks, piers, wharves, ware
houses and all adjuncts and facilities
Tor navigation and commerce and for
the utilization of the water front and
waterways and adjacent property.
.. To grant franchises or rights to
use the streets, waters, water fronts,
public ways and public places of the
city.
II. To construct and maintain pub
lie buildings, public works and public
improvements, including local I'M
provements, and assess and levy upon
the property benefited thereby the cost
thereof, in whole or in part.
~. To prevent and extinguish fires
and to protect the inhabitants of the
city and property within the city from
loss or damage by fire or other cas-
ualty.
13. To maintain order, enforce laws,
protect property and preserve and care
for the safety, health, comfort and
general welfare of the inhabitants of
the city and visitors thereto and for
any of said purposes to regulate and
license occupations and business.
IA. To create, maintain and admin
lister a system or systems for the
enumeration, identification and regis
tration, or either, of the inhabitants
of the city and visitors thereto, or
such classes thereof as may be deemed
advisabl
Is. To establish. maintain. manage
and administer hospitals. sanatoria,
dispensaries, pNblic baths, almshouses,
warehouses;. reformatories, iails and
other charitable and correctional in
stitutions; to relieve, instruct and care
for children and poor, sick, infirm,
defective, insane or inebriate persons;
to provide for the burial of INDECENT
persons; to contribute to and super
wise charitable, eleemosynary, correc-
tional or reformatory institutions
wholly or partly under private con-
troll.
16. To establish and maintain such
institutions and instrumentalities for
the instruction. enlightenment, i'm
proVement, entertainment, recreation
and welfare of it's inhabitants as it
may deem appropriate or necessary
for the public interest or advantage.
II. To determine and regulate the
number, mode of selection, terms of
employment, qualifications, powers
and duties and compensation of all
employees of the city and the relations
of all officers and employees of the city
to each other, to the city and to the
inhabitants.
18. To create a municipal civil
service; to make rules for the classif-
cation of the officers and employments
in the city's service, for appointments
promotions and examinations, and for
the registration and selection of
laborers.
10. To regulate the manner of
transacting the city's business and af-
fairs and the reporting of and ac-
counting for all transactions of or
concerning the city.
20. To provide methods and pro-
vide, manage and administer funds
for pensions and annuities for and
retirement of city officers and en-
ployes.
21. TO investigate and inquire into
all matters of concern to the city or
its inhabitants, and to require and
enforce by subpoena the attendance of
witnesses at such Investigations.
%. To regulate by ordinance any
matter within the powers of the city.
and to provide for the enforcement of
ordinances by legal proceedings, to
compel compliance Herewith, and by
penalties, forfeitures and imprison-
ment to punish violations thereof
23. To exercise all powers necessary
and proper for carrying into execu-