11-47-138
Section 11-47-138 Establishment, regulation, etc., of slaughterhouses and pens; regulation
of sale, etc., of fresh meats, etc.; fees and charges. All cities and towns of this state
shall have the power to establish, control, and regulate slaughterhouses and pens and to confine
the same to a specified limit in or outside of the city or town or prohibit the same within
the police jurisdiction of the city or town, and to regulate the sale of fresh meats within
the city or town, whether butchered therein or not, and to establish a system of inspecting
such slaughterhouses and such meats, either before or after the same are butchered, and to
prohibit the sale of such meats after the same are condemned, and provide for the disposition
thereof. Such cities and towns shall also have the power to provide for the weighing and herding
outside of the city or town of all livestock intended for slaughter and to fix, regulate,
and collect reasonable fees and charges to pay the expenses of carrying...
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11-47-137
Section 11-47-137 Regulation, etc., of markets and marketing of food products, etc. All cities
and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and
market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles
offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town and for the
punishment of persons or corporations offering for sale unsound or unwholesome articles in
markets or other places in the city or town or within the police jurisdiction thereof. Such
cities and towns shall have the power to inspect all dairies and the products of the same
in the county in which the city or town or any part thereof is located and the owner of which
sells or disposes of milk or butter in such city or town and to regulate the same, and the
council or other governing body of such city or town may fix and prescribe the payment of
a reasonable fee for such inspection. Such council or other governing body...
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11-47-134
Section 11-47-134 Establishment, aid, etc., of hospitals, poorhouses, etc., in counties; removal
and detention of persons with contagious, etc., diseases. All cities and towns of this state
shall have the power to aid, establish, set up, and regulate hospitals, poorhouses, workhouses,
houses of correction, and pesthouses anywhere in the county in which the city or town is situated
and cause persons afflicted with contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases to be removed
to such hospitals or pesthouses as may be provided for the purpose and to cause persons who
have been exposed to such diseases, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of
detention and detained for a reasonable length of time. (Code 1907, §1277; Code 1923, §2033;
Code 1940, T. 37, §495.)...
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11-50-53
Section 11-50-53 Regulation, installation, etc., of drainage and sewer connections generally.
All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish or build drains and may
require private or public premises to be connected with the sewer system for proper drainage
or sanitation and shall have the power to regulate the manner of connection therewith. They
shall also have the power to adopt and enforce all such laws, ordinances, and resolutions
necessary to compel the owners of real property to ditch and drain the same at such owner's
expense and to punish any neglect of such owner or person in charge of said lots or property,
and on failure of the owner after 10 days' notice to do so, the city or town may ditch and
drain such premises at the expense of such owner, the same to be a lien on such property to
be collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced. The notice required by this section
shall be by personal service or by posting a notice on the premises....
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11-47-136
Section 11-47-136 Prohibition of sale, etc., of impure, adulterated, etc., food, drink, etc.;
provision for inspections; fees. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to
prohibit and prevent the gift, barter, sale, or display of impure or adulterated foods and
drinks and of diseased or unsound meats or decayed fruits and vegetables or impure, adulterated,
unsound, or unwholesome articles of food or drink of any kind and to provide all such inspection
laws as may be deemed advisable or necessary and to prescribe and require the payment of all
such reasonable fees as may be necessary to defray the expenses of carrying out the powers
granted in this section. (Code 1907, §1295; Code 1923, §2053; Code 1940, T. 37, §497.)...

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11-47-7
Section 11-47-7 Erection, maintenance, etc., of jails, morgues, hospitals, etc. All cities
and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, erect, maintain, and regulate jails,
morgues, houses of refuge, stationhouses and prisons, public baths and bathhouses, and to
own, establish, maintain, and regulate public hospitals, and to purchase and provide for any
and all things which may be deemed advisable or necessary thereto and to receive donations
and bequests of property or money in trust or otherwise for the exercise of all such powers,
rights, and duties incident to the same. (Code 1907, §1287; Code 1923, §2045; Code 1940,
T. 37, §469.)...
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11-50-55
Section 11-50-55 Regulation, installation, etc., of privies, water closets, septic tanks, etc.;
preparation and filing of statement as to installation, etc., of privies, water closets, etc.
All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to regulate privies, water closets,
and septic tanks and the construction thereof and to compel the installation of same and to
regulate the connection of such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage
system of the city or town; and, in case of failure to install or connect after reasonable
notice, then the city or town may install proper privies, water closets, or septic tanks as
it deems advisable and connect such water closets with such septic tanks or with the sewerage
system of the city or town, the expense of same to be assessed against the property and the
cost thereof to be a lien upon the property in favor of the city or town, superior to all
other liens, to be collected as other debts are collected or liens enforced....
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11-47-40
Section 11-47-40 Ownership, regulation, etc., of municipal cemeteries; regulation, etc., of
establishment or use of private cemeteries within police jurisdiction. All cities and towns
of this state shall have the power to own, regulate, improve, lay out, and control town or
city cemeteries and permit additions thereto and the establishment of new ones, either within
or without the town or city limits, and to sell burial lots in the same, and to regulate or
prohibit the establishment or use of private cemeteries within the police jurisdiction of
a city or town elsewhere than in the city or town cemeteries. (Code 1907, §1284; Code 1923,
§2041; Code 1940, T. 37, §478.)...
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11-51-102
Section 11-51-102 Licensing, etc., of theatres, parks, shooting galleries, etc.; closing of
houses of amusement or places for sale of firearms, etc. Any city or town shall have the power
to license, tax, regulate, restrain, or prohibit theatrical and other amusements, billiard
and pool tables, nine or tenpin alleys, box or ball alleys, shooting galleries, theatres,
parks, and other places of amusement when, in the opinion of the council or other governing
body, the public good or safety demands it, to refuse to license any or all such businesses
and to authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer by proclamation to cause any or
all houses or places of amusement or houses or places for the sale of firearms or other deadly
weapons to be closed for a period of not longer than the next meeting of the city or town
council or other governing body. (Code 1907, §1341; Code 1923, §2164; Code 1940, T. 37,
§751.)...
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11-47-140
Section 11-47-140 Construction, regulation, etc., of public wells, cisterns, etc.; requirement
of cutting of weeds, proper setting of gutters, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall
have the power to construct, repair, and regulate public wells and cisterns and to compel
the screening of all wells, cisterns, and other places in the city or town in which water
is collected where mosquitoes or other insects of like kind are apt to propagate. Such cities
and towns shall also have the power to compel the proper setting of gutters so as to prevent
stagnant water therein and to require weeds to be cut or other things or conditions favorable
to the harboring of such insects to be abated or to do such work at the expense of the owner,
the same to be a lien on the property to be collected as any other debts are collected or
liens enforced. (Code 1907, §1280; Code 1923, §2037; Code 1940, T. 37, §501.)...
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