11-49-3
Section 11-49-3 Railroads and public utilities using streets to be required to keep streets
in repair, etc. Street and other railroad companies shall be required to keep their tracks
in repair, using such rails as may be prescribed, and shall maintain and keep in repair the
streets between their rails and for 18 inches on each side in such manner as the council or
other governing body may prescribe. Any public utility using the streets of the city or town
shall at all times, in a manner prescribed by the council or other governing body, render
the use of such streets safe to vehicles and to persons, and all tracks on such street shall,
when required by the council or other governing body, be placed at any fixed grade and changed,
free of expense to the municipality, when found necessary. (Code 1907, §1269; Code 1923,
§2017; Code 1940, T. 37, §648.)...
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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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11-43-80
Section 11-43-80 Powers and duties generally; office; salary; employment, salary, etc., as
superintendent of municipal light, water, sewage, etc., systems. (a) The mayor shall have
the powers and perform the duties provided by this title and by other applicable provisions
of law and shall keep an office in the city or town. (b) The mayor shall receive such salary
as the council may prescribe, which must be fixed by the council not less than six months
prior to each general municipal election; provided, however, the six-month requirement in
this section may be waived when necessary to comply with a mandate by the U.S. Justice Department
pursuant to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, or with an order issued by a state
or federal court. (c) In municipalities which own and operate light and power systems, municipal
water systems, municipal sewage systems, and municipal gas systems, one or any of them, may,
by resolution of the governing body duly entered in its minutes, require the...
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11-51-90.2
Section 11-51-90.2 Purchase of business license; classification of taxpayers; vehicle decals;
determination of gross receipts; construction with other provisions. (a) Every taxpayer required
to purchase a business license under this chapter shall: (1) Purchase a business license for
each location at which it does business in the municipality, except as otherwise provided
by the municipality. (2) Except as provided in Section 11-51-193, with respect to taxpayers
subject to state licensing board oversight, be classified into one or more of the following
2002 North American Industrial Classification System ("NAICS") sectors and applicable
sub-sectors, industry groups, industries, and U.S. industries thereunder: SECTOR NAICS TITLE
SUGGESTED BUSINESS LICENSE CODE GROUPING BY SAMPLE TOPIC OR CATEGORY BASIS FOR LICENSE CALCULATION
111 Crop Production Agriculture, farming, nursery, fruit, growers Gross Receipts and/or Flat
Rate 112 Animal Production Animal, dairy, cattle, ranching, sheep,...
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11-49-103
Section 11-49-103 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Two-thirds vote of council, etc., required. Any ordinance for the vacation
of a part of a street and erection of buildings thereon as is provided for in Section 11-49-100
shall be adopted only by a two-thirds vote of the council or other governing body. (Acts 1909,
No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2240; Code 1940, T. 37, §665.)...
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11-49-101
Section 11-49-101 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Publication of notice as to introduction of ordinance and time for consideration
thereof by council, etc. - Required. No ordinance vacating a portion of a street as provided
by Section 11-49-100 shall be adopted until after the expiration of 30 days after its first
introduction, and after it has been introduced it shall be published in some newspaper published
in the city or town for two successive weeks, and such publication shall also contain a statement
of the time when it will be considered and that objections to its passage may then be heard
by the council or other governing body; provided, however, that if the city or town has no
newspaper published therein, such publication shall be made in some newspaper of general circulation
published within the county where such city or town is located. If, for any reason, the ordinance
is not acted on at the time stated in the...
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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation
is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or
street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of
any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within
the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the
grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because
of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass,
or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department
orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing,
it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of
the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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11-49-80
Section 11-49-80 Definitions; responsibility for streets within municipality controlled by
county; annexation of unincorporated territory; alternative arrangements; evacuation routes.
(a) For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) COUNTY-MAINTAINED STREET. A public street, road, or bridge that the county commission
has the authority or responsibility to control, manage, supervise, regulate, repair, maintain,
or improve. (2) MUNICIPAL STREET. A public street, road, or bridge that the municipality has
the authority or responsibility to control, manage, supervise, regulate, repair, maintain,
or improve. (3) RESPONSIBILITY FOR A STREET. The authority or responsibility to control, manage,
supervise, regulate, repair, maintain, or improve a public street, road, or bridge. (4) STREET.
A public street, road, bridge, or portion thereof. (b) Where the responsibility for a public
street or streets lying within a municipality is vested in the...
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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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