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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11-47-138
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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11-47-22
Section 11-47-22 Exercise of police jurisdiction over hospitals, poorhouses, cemeteries, etc.
All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to exercise police jurisdiction over
all lands purchased or acquired by the city or town for the purpose of being used or occupied
as a hospital, quarantine station, poorhouse, pesthouse, workhouse or house of correction,
schoolhouse, sanitary or storm water sewers, rights-of-way, cemeteries and parks, and the
laws and ordinances of the cities and towns shall apply to and extend over all the lands so
used or occupied and the inhabitants thereof. (Code 1907, §1288; Code 1923, §2046; Code
1940, T. 37, §477.)...
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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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11-49-1
Section 11-49-1 Consent to use public streets, etc., for construction or operation of public
utility or private enterprise; fees. (a) No person, firm, association, or corporation shall
be authorized to use the streets, avenues, alleys, and other public places of cities or towns
for the construction or operation of any public utility or private enterprise without first
obtaining the consent of the proper authorities of the city or town. (b) No electric supplier,
as defined in Section 37-14-31(1), which has an assigned service territory established by
general law enacted by the Legislature and which is subject to payment of a privilege or license
tax or other tax or fee established by general law enacted by the Legislature to a city or
town which authorizes a levy not to exceed three percent of the gross receipts of the business
done by the electric supplier in the municipality during the preceding year, and which authorizes
a levy not to exceed one and one-half percent of the gross...
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11-43-60
Section 11-43-60 Regulation of storage, use, etc., of explosives; compulsion of efficient service
by public utility corporations. (a) The council may regulate and control or prohibit the erection
of powder magazines within the police jurisdiction of the city or town, and prevent explosives
and dangerous substances from being stored within the city or town and regulate the manner
in which explosives may be hauled or kept within the police jurisdiction. (b) The council
may compel public utility corporations using a franchise obtained from the municipality to
render efficient service to the inhabitants thereof. (Code 1907, §1271; Code 1923, §2019;
Code 1940, T. 37, §437.)...
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11-51-104
Section 11-51-104 Licensing and taxation, etc., of amusements, athletic games, and use of public
parks, etc. The council shall have power to license and tax, permit and regulate and restrain
or prohibit all kinds of amusements and all athletic games and the use of public parks and
places of resort within the corporate limits and within the police jurisdiction of the several
cities or towns and shall prescribe the places and the manner and method of regulating and
conducting all such amusements and games and fix the time when all or any of the places referred
to may be opened or shall be closed, not inconsistent with the laws of the state. (Code 1907,
§1347; Code 1923, §2170; Code 1940, T. 37, §757.)...
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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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11-47-131
Section 11-47-131 Powers as to health, sanitation and quarantine generally. In addition to
the powers granted to them by the applicable provisions of this title or any other provisions
of law, all cities and towns of this state shall have the following powers, and the councils
or other governing bodies of such cities and towns may provide by ordinance or resolution
for the exercise or enforcement of the same: (1) To prevent the introduction of contagious,
infectious, or pestilential diseases into such cities or towns; (2) To establish and regulate
a sufficient quarantine, not inconsistent with laws of the state, in the towns and cities
and within the police jurisdiction thereof and to punish any breach of quarantine law; (3)
To adopt such ordinances and regulations as the council or other governing body may deem necessary
to insure good sanitary condition in public places or in private premises in the cities and
towns; and (4) To prescribe the duties and fix the salaries and...
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11-47-15
Section 11-47-15 Alteration of channel of watercourse; construction, maintenance, leasing,
etc., of wharves and buildings, etc., on and near wharves and wharf sites. The council or
other governing body of any town or city may alter and change the channel of any watercourse
in the police jurisdiction of the city or town and may construct and maintain wharves and
construct buildings and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites and may collect
wharfage dues and other charges thereon and rentals with respect thereto. Said council or
other governing body may lease to others all or any part of wharves or sites for wharves constructed,
maintained, or owned by such town or city and any buildings and other improvements so constructed
on or near any wharf or wharf site for public or private use for a period or periods not exceeding
40 years from the completion of such construction or for a period or periods not exceeding
40 years from the delivery of the lease if such construction...
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