Garbage.

Licensing

Garbage.

(30) To provide for the collection and disposal of garbage, ashes, animal and vegetable refuse, dead animals, animal offal, rubbish and waste matter.

Licensing businesses.

(31) To license for purposes of regulation or revenue all businesses. and every kind of business not prohibited by law; to fix the rates of licenses upon the same, and to provide for the collection thereof by suit or otherwise; provided, however, that no such license shall be granted for the sale or giving away of spirituous, malt, vinous or alcoholic liquors in a saloon or public bar or other places located in residence portions of the city, that is to say in any half block which is bounded on one side by an alley and on the other three sides by streets in which there are more residences than business houses, nor on the same side of any block in which is located any church building or synagogue in use as a place of public worship which is owned in fee by any sect, denomination or association of persons worshiping therein, public school or public library; and every person who within such residential or other restricted district sells, barters, gives away in lieu of selling, or exposes for sale any such liquors, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The above prohibitory provisions of this subdivision are subject to the following provisos:

First. That the council may, under such regulations as it may adopt, authorize as well within as without such restricted districts, the sale of such liquors by any regularly licensed druggist for medicinal purposes upon the written prescription of a practicing physician entitled to practice medicine under the laws of the State of California, or the sale of such liquors for chemical, mechanical or scientific purposes;

Second. That the prohibitions as to location provided in this subdivision shall not prevent the renewal of any such license to a person who was a licensee of such license on the first day of December, 1910, and which license or renewal thereof continues until this charter goes into effect;

Third. That the future erection of any church building or other place of worship, school house or public library or the acquisition in the future of any property which may thereafter be used for church purposes, place of worship, school house or public library, shall not operate to revoke, prevent the renewal of any existing license or prohibit the granting of a new license within these boundaries: Commencing at the water front; thence along the center line of the alley between Virginia and Capitol streets to the center line of Sonoma street; thence along the center line of Sonoma street to the alley between Georgia and Virginia streets; thence along the · center line of the alley to Sutter street; thence along the center line of Sutter street to the center line of Georgia street; thence along the center line of Georgia street to the center line of Sonoma street; thence along the center line of Sonoma street to the center line of York street; thence along the center line

of York street to the center line of Marin street; thence along the center line of Marin street to the alley between Georgia and York streets; thence along the center line of the alley to the waterfront.

Regulation of public vehicles.

(32) To establish stands for hacks, public carriages, auto- Regulation of public mobiles, express wagons and other public vehicles for hire, vehicles. and regulate the charges of such hacks, public carriages, automobiles, express wagons, and other public vehicles, and to require schedules of such charges to be conspicuously posted in or upon such public vehicles, and to provide penalties for collecting of charges in excess of such schedules.

Weights and measures.

and

measures.

(33) To provide for the inspection and sealing of all Weights weights and measures used in the city, and to enforce the keeping and use by dealers of proper and correct weights and measures duly tested and sealed.

Public shows. Gambling.

gambling.

(34) To license, regulate, restrain or prohibit all exhibi- Public tions, public shows, games and amusements; to prevent and show prohibit all descriptions of gambling or fraudulent devices and practices, all playing of cards, dice or other games of chance for the purpose of gambling, the keeping or operating of card machines, slot machines or other contrivances upon or into which money is staked, hazarded, deposited or paid upon chance, and the selling of pools on races, and to authorize the confiscation and destruction of all instruments used for the purpose of gambling.

Public order and decency.

order and

(35) To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, lewd Public persons and prostitutes; to prevent and punish drunkenness, decency. prize fights, vagrancy, mendicancy, prostitution and all offensive, immoral, indecent and disorderly conduct and practices in the city.

Taxation.

(36) To levy taxes and collect taxes upon all the real and Taxation. personal property within the city subject to the limitations elsewhere in this charter provided.

Erroneously collected taxes.

(37) To order the repaying by the treasurer of any taxes, Erronepercentages or costs erroneously or illegally collected.

Fees.

(38) To fix the fees and charges for all official services not otherwise provided for in this charter.

Public entertainments.

ously collected taxes.

Fees.

entertainments.

(39) To appropriate and spend money from the funds of Public the city for any or all of the following purposes: (a) Reception and entertainment of public guests.

Lease of lands

the city.

(b) Assistance of public celebrations held by the city at large.

(c) To aid in or carry on the work of inducing immigration to the city.

(d) To exhibit manufactured and other products of the city. (e) Generally for the purpose of advertising the city. Provided, however, that the aggregate expenditures for all of said purposes shall not exceed in any fiscal year the sum of one and one-half (12) cents on each one hundred ($100) dollars valuation of the assessable property of the city of Vallejo.

Lease of lands owned by the city.

(40) To provide for the lease of any lands now or hereafter owned by owned by the city, except as otherwise provided in this charter, but all leases shall be made at public auction to the highest responsible bidder at the highest rent, after publication of notice thereof for five days, stating explicitly the time and conditions of the proposed lease; provided, that no such lease shall be for a period of more than ten years; and provided, that the council may in its discretion reject any and all bids. Purchase of property under execution.

Purchase of prop

(41) To provide for the purchase of property levied upon erty under or under execution in favor of the city, but the amount bid on such purchase shall not exceed the amount of judgment and costs.

execution.

Sale of useless property.

Trust's.

Street grades.

Street work.

Sale of useless property.

(42) To provide for the sale at public auction, after advertising for five days, of personal property unfit or unnecessary for the use of the city.

Trusts.

(43) To provide for the execution of all trusts confided to the city.

Street grades.

(44) To establish or change the grade of any street or public place.

Street work.

(45) To order the whole or any portion, either in length or width, of any street, avenue, lane, alley, court, public place, or sidewalk within the city of Vallejo to be graded or regraded to the official grade, planked or replanked, paved or repaved, macadamized or remacadamized, graveled or regraveled, piled or repiled, capped or recapped, oiled or reoiled, sewered or resewered, and to order sidewalks, manholes, culverts, bridges, cesspools, gutters, tunnels, curbing, and crosswalks to be constructed therein or thereon, and to order stormwater ditches and channels, breakwaters, levees or walls of rock or other material to protect the same from overflow or injury, and to order any other work to be done which shall be necessary to complete the work or any portion of said streets, avenues,

lanes, alleys, courts, public places, or sidewalks; also to order any other work or improvement therein or thereon; to provide for the care of shade trees planted therein or thereon, and to cause shade trees to be planted, set out and cultivated therein or thereon; and also to order a sewer or sewers, with outlets, for drainage or sanitary purposes in, on, over, or through private property.

Whenever, in the judgment of the council, the cost and expense of any of the foregoing improvements should be paid by special assessment on private property, the general laws of the State of California in force at the time of the improvement shall govern and control, and all proceedings shall be in conformity thereto.

Street opening.

opening.

(46) To order the opening, extending, widening, straight- Street ening or closing of any street, lane, alley, court, or public place within the city or over the tide land or lands within the city covered by the waters of the Mare Island Straits, and to condemn or acquire any and all property necessary or convenient for that purpose.

Whenever, in the judgment of the council the cost and expense of any of the foregoing improvements should be paid by special assessment on private property, the general laws of the State of California in force at the time of the improvement shall govern and control, and all proceedings shall be in conformity thereto, except that no commissioner, secretary or attorney shall be appointed, and that all the duties imposed on commissioners, secretaries and attorneys under the general law shall be performed under the direction of the commissioner of public works and the city attorney of the city, neither of whom shall receive compensation therefor; provided, that nothing contained in this subdivision shall be construed as affecting any pending proceeding.

To make provision for the deposit with the treasurer, by any person, firm or corporation desiring to open any sidewalk, street, alley, lane, court, park or other public place, for the purpose of laying or removing any pipe, wire, conduit, sewer or other structure therein, of moneys sufficient to cover the cost of refilling and covering such opening and restoring the sidewalk, street, lane, alley, court, park or other public place to the condition in which it was before such opening was made, and to provide for the doing of such work at the expense of the person, firm or corporation making such opening, such expense to be paid out of such deposit.

Light and water.

water.

(47) To provide for the lighting of the streets, highways, Light and public places, and public buildings and for supplying the city with water for municipal and other purposes.

Boulevards.

(48) To set apart as a boulevard or boulevards any street or Boulestreets over which there is no existing franchise for any rail- vards.

Closed or abandoned streets.

Regulation

of public

rates.

road, interurban, suburban or street railway and to regulate and prevent heavy teaming thereon; and when any such street shall have been set aside as a boulevard, no franchise for any railroad, interurban, suburban or street railway or street railway of any kind shall be granted upon such boulevard and no railroad track of any kind shall ever be laid thereon, unless an ordinance to that effect shall have been duly passed by vote of the electors, as provided in this charter.

Closed or abandoned streets.

(49) Whenever any street or portion of a street shall be abandoned or closed by ordinance, to convey by deed such street or portion of street so abandoned or closed to the owners of the lands adjacent thereto in such wise as the council shall deem that equity requires. But the council shall have no power to convey by deed or otherwise without adequate compensation any street or portion of a street which shall have been acquired by the city by deed from any person or persons whatever. And this section shall not be construed as empowering or authorizing the council to close any street or portion thereof merely by the consent of owners of land adjacent thereto and when the public convenience does not so require. Regulation of public utility rates.

(50) To fix and determine by ordinance in the month of utility February of each year, to take effect on the first day of July thereafter, the rates of compensation to be collected by any person, firm or corporation in the city, for the use of water, heat, light, power or telephone service, supplied to the city or to the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe the character and quality of the service.

Rates to be uniform.

Regulation of street

Rates to be uniform.

(51) It is hereby provided that in fixing the rates charged by all such persons, firms or corporations, supplying water, heat, light, power or telephone service to the city or to the inhabitants thereof, the council may classify the customers of such persons, firm or corporation into distinct and separate classes, such classification to be based on the quantity and kind of service rendered; and the rates for such water, heat, light, power or telephone service shall be uniform per unit of measurement on such basis, and it shall be lawful for the council, in regulating such rates, to establish in any class, a lower schedule of charges per unit of measurement for large consumers than for small consumers; but such rates, when established, must be strictly adhered to, and such reduction to large consumers shall not apply to nor be made to cover the aggregate consumption in separate and distinct plants, residences or places of business.

Regulation of street railroads.

(52) To regulate street railroads, their tracks and cars; to compel the owners of two or more such street railroads using railroads. the same street for any distance not exceeding fifteen (15)