§ 22. City council; powers concerning streets and lighting.

The city council shall have power to provide for suitable lighting wherever it shall deem necessary to regulate the size, shape and finish of poles which may be erected; to regulate all the parades, processions, public assemblages, shows or amusements in public streets; to regulate the naming of streets and numbering of lots and buildings; to regulate coasting and sliding and the use of bicycles and other vehicles on sidewalks; to prevent loitering on streets, sidewalks, spaces between sidewalks or buildings or in or about entrances to public or private buildings, to the obstruction or annoyance of the public; to regulate the placing of signs, banners, marquees, flags, awnings or other obstructions over or upon streets and sidewalks; to regulate the posting or painting of notices, signs or advertisements on the streets or on poles or elsewhere in or adjacent to streets; to regulate the removal of poles from streets; to regulate or prohibit excavations in streets, highways and public grounds for public or private purposes, and the location of any work, temporary or permanent, upon or under the surface thereof; to regulate the disposition of building materials of any description on any sidewalk or highway and the removal of buildings upon or through the same; to prohibit, license or regulate the selling or dispensing of wares or merchandise upon streets, sidewalks or in public places, to regulate planting, removal or care of trees and plants in streets and public places and to make, repair, clean and keep open and safe for public use and travel, free from obstruction, the streets, highways, sidewalks, gutters and public grounds and places in said city and to provide other ordinances for the public welfare.

Legislative history— Sp. No. 352, § 26, 1911; Sp. No. 434, § 60, 1931; Sp. No. 489, § 23, 1939.