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14-54-103. General powers of cities and towns.
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14-54-103. General powers of cities and towns.
Cities and incorporated towns shall have power to:
(1) Prevent injury or annoyance within the limits of the municipal corporation from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy and cause any nuisance to be abated within the jurisdiction given the board of health in § 14-262-102;
(2) Regulate the keeping and transportation of gunpowder, dynamite, and other combustibles and provide or license magazines for them;
(3) Prevent and punish fast or immoderate riding of horses or driving or propelling of vehicles through the streets;
(4) Establish and regulate markets;
(5) Provide for the measuring or weighing of hay, wood, or any other article for sale;
(6) Regulate the transportation of articles throughout the streets and prevent injury to the streets from overloaded vehicles;
(7) Prevent cruelty to animals;
(8) Prevent any riots, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assemblages;
(9)(A) Regulate drumming or soliciting persons who arrive on trains or otherwise for hotels, boardinghouses, bathhouses, or doctors, to license these drummers, provide that each shall wear a badge plainly exposed to view, showing for whom and for what he is drumming or soliciting patronage, and punish by fines any violation of this subdivision.
(B) Any bona fide owner or proprietor of any hotel or boardinghouse may solicit patronage to his hotel or boardinghouse without being required to wear a badge or pay license therefor;
(10) License, regulate, tax, or suppress ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, money changers, intelligence offices, public masquerade balls, street exhibitions, sparring exhibitions, dance houses, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, corn doctors, private-lock venereal hospitals, museums and menager
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-54-103
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14-54-103. General powers of cities and towns.
Cities and incorporated towns shall have power to:
(1) Prevent injury or annoyance within the limits of the municipal corporation from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy and cause any nuisance to be abated within the jurisdiction given the board of health in § 14-262-102;
(2) Regulate the keeping and transportation of gunpowder, dynamite, and other combustibles and provide or license magazines for them;
(3) Prevent and punish fast or immoderate riding of horses or driving or propelling of vehicles through the streets;
(4) Establish and regulate markets;
(5) Provide for the measuring or weighing of hay, wood, or any other article for sale;
(6) Regulate the transportation of articles throughout the streets and prevent injury to the streets from overloaded vehicles;
(7) Prevent cruelty to animals;
(8) Prevent any riots, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assemblages;
(9)(A) Regulate drumming or soliciting persons who arrive on trains or otherwise for hotels, boardinghouses, bathhouses, or doctors, to license these drummers, provide that each shall wear a badge plainly exposed to view, showing for whom and for what he is drumming or soliciting patronage, and punish by fines any violation of this subdivision.
(B) Any bona fide owner or proprietor of any hotel or boardinghouse may solicit patronage to his hotel or boardinghouse without being required to wear a badge or pay license therefor;
(10) License, regulate, tax, or suppress ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, money changers, intelligence offices, public masquerade balls, street exhibitions, sparring exhibitions, dance houses, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, corn doctors, private-lock venereal hospitals, museums and menageries, equestrian performances, horoscopic views, lung testers, muscle developers, magnifying glasses, billiard tables or other instruments used for gaming, theatricals, or other exhibitions, shows, and amusements, or any gift enterprise;
(11) Suppress prizefighting, dogfights, chicken fights, gaming, or gambling houses; and
(12) Regulate or suppress bawdy or disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, or houses of assignation.
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14-262-102. City board of health.
(a) A city of the first class or city of the second class may establish a city board of health to be constituted as follows:
(1) The mayor of the city may appoint no fewer than five (5) persons, two (2) of whom shall be physicians who shall be graduates of reputable medical colleges and of good professional standing, who shall constitute a city board of health, and who shall have and exercise the powers conferred upon those boards by law and by the ordinances of the city; and
(2) The mayor of the city shall be an ex officio member of the board.
(b)(1) The city council shall have the power to establish a board of health.
(2) The board shall have jurisdiction for one (1) mile beyond the city limits, and for quarantine purposes, in cases of epidemic, five (5) miles.
(c) The city council shall have power to invest the board with such powers and impose upon it such duties as shall be necessary to:
(1) Secure the city and its inhabitants from the evils of contagious, malignant, and infectious diseases;
(2) Provide for its proper organization and the election or appointment of the necessary officers; and
(3) Make such bylaws, rules, and regulations for its government and support as shall be required for enforcing the prompt and efficient performance of its duties and the lawful exercise of its powers.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-262-102
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-262-102. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.