11-47-171
Section 11-47-171 Authorization of acquisition by municipal governing body. Whenever in the
opinion of the council or other governing body of a city or town, a right-of-way through the
lands of others (whether in or out of the city or town) is necessary for obtaining a water
supply or for sewerage or drainage purposes and whenever the council or other governing body
may determine to change the grade of any street, sidewalk, or public place and whenever any
property is needed for any city or town purpose, the council or other governing body shall
authorize the mayor or other chief executive officer to attempt to acquire such right by purchase
from the owner or owners thereof and, in case of failure, to acquire the same by condemnation.
(Code 1907, §1440; Code 1923, §2296; Code 1940, T. 37, §508.)...
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11-47-170
Section 11-47-170 Acquisition of lands, easements, etc., by municipality; limitations on condemnation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council,
commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for
the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this
title or any other applicable provision of law, the town or city shall have full power and
authority to acquire by purchase the necessary lands or rights, easements, or interests therein,
thereunder, or thereover or, for the purposes for which private property may be acquired by
condemnation, may proceed to condemn the same in the manner provided by this article, or by
the general laws of this state governing the taking of lands or the acquiring of interests
therein for the uses for which private property may be taken, and such proceedings shall be
governed in every respect by the general laws of this state...
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11-51-103
Section 11-51-103 Revocation of licenses of houses of public entertainment or places where
firearms, etc., kept for sale. The city or town council or other governing body shall have
the right and power to revoke and cancel any and all licenses issued to any house of public
entertainment or house or place where firearms or other deadly weapons are kept for sale when,
in their judgment, the public safety, peace, good order, or decency may require it and when
the owner thereof or person operating the same shall have been convicted of any violation
of the city or town ordinances regulating such business. (Code 1907, §1342; Code 1923, §2165;
Code 1940, T. 37, §752.)...
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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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45-37A-53
Section 45-37A-53 Abatement of weeds. (a) All weeds growing upon private property within municipalities
of the state having a population of 300,000 inhabitants or more, according to the last or
any subsequent federal census, which bear seeds of a wingy or downy nature or attain such
a large growth as to become a fire menace when dry, or which are otherwise noxious or dangerous,
may be declared to be a public nuisance by the governing body of any such municipality, and
thereafter abated as in this section provided. (b) Whenever any such weeds are growing upon
any private property, the governing body of any such municipality may, by resolution, declare
the same to be a public nuisance. The resolution shall refer to the street by the name under
which it is commonly known, and describe the property upon which the nuisance exists by giving
a legal description thereof; and no other description of the property shall be required. Any
number of parcels of private property may be included in one...
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11-47-172
Section 11-47-172 Procedure for condemnation and appeal; asssessment of value, etc. (a) Whenever
the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the
purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old
streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of said lands
or cannot agree as to the amount to be paid for changing the grade of any street, sidewalk,
or public place and whenever the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall be an infant, non
compos mentis, a nonresident, or unknown, then the mayor or other chief executive officer
shall apply to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for a writ of ad quod damnum to
be directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon three freeholders of the
county to appear before the sheriff on a day named, not less than two days from the date of
the writ, and to proceed under his direction to assess a value of the lands of...
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11-42-200
Section 11-42-200 Passage of resolution defining proposed reduced corporate limits. Whenever
in the opinion of the council or governing body of any city or town the public health or public
good requires that the corporate limits of such town or city be reduced and the boundaries
thereof reestablished, said council shall pass a resolution defining the proposed corporate
limits. (Acts 1923, No. 372, p. 394; Code 1923, §2413; Code 1940, T. 37, §237.)...
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11-49-100
Section 11-49-100 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Authorized generally. Whenever in the judgment of the council or other governing
body of any town or city it is to the interest of the public convenience that a portion of
any street in the limits of such city or town be vacated and discontinued as a highway and
that such vacated portion should be used for the erection and maintenance in whole or in part
thereon of any state, county, or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or
street railroad station or depot, such city or town council or other governing body may, by
ordinance duly adopted, vacate such portions of such street and discontinue its use as a public
highway and permit the erection and maintenance in whole or in part thereon of a state, county,
or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2238; Code 1940, T....
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11-47-115
Section 11-47-115 Regulation of operation of street railroad company over tracks of another.
Any street railroad company operating its railroad by steam, electric, or other power shall
have the right and may be required by the council or other governing body of any town or city
of this state to operate its cars over the tracks of any other street railroad company in
whole or in part in said city or town under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed
by ordinance, upon the payment by the company so using the tracks of another of just compensation
for the use thereof, and the council or other governing body of said city or town shall pass
such ordinances as may be necessary to carry this provision into effect. (Code 1907, §1267;
Code 1923, §2015; Code 1940, T. 37, §490.)...
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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion
of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may
grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad
station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same
shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923,
§2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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