(A) The Board of Trustees shall have powers as set forth in the state statutes, including the power to:
(1) Control the finances and property of the village;
(2) Appropriate money for village purposes only, and provide for payment of debts and expenses of the village;
(3) Levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on real and personal property;
(4) Fix the amount, terms and manner of issuing and revoking licenses;
(5) Borrow money on the credit of the village for village purposes, and issue bonds therefor, in such amounts and form, and on such conditions as it shall prescribe, but shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate to exceed borrowing limits as set by state statute;
(6) Issue bonds in place of or to supply means to meet maturing bonds or for the consolidation of funding of the same;
(7) Lay out, to establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds, and vacate the same;
(8) Plant trees upon the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds;
(9) Regulate the use of streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds;
(10) Prevent and remove encroachments or obstructions upon streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds;
(11) Provide for the lighting of streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds;
(12) Provide for the cleansing of streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks, and public grounds;
(13) Regulate the openings therein for the laying of mains and pipes for utilities, and the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels and drains;
(14) Regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder, and to require the owner or occupant of any premises to keep the sidewalks in front of, or along the same, free from obstructions;
(15) Regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, or any offensive matter in, and to prevent injury to any street, avenue, alley, or public ground;
(16) Provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs, and gutters;
(17) Regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, and public grounds for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, telegraph poles, racks, posting handbills and advertisements;
(18) Regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, placards, advertisements, or handbills in the streets or public grounds, or upon the sidewalks;
(19) Regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners, or signs across the streets or from houses;
(20) Regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks, and public places;
(21) Regulate the speed of vehicles, cars, and locomotives within the limits of the village;
(22) Regulate the numbering of houses and lots;
(23) Name and change the name of any street, avenue, alley, or other public place;
(24) Provide for and change the location, grade, and crossings of any railroad;
(25) (a) Require railroad companies to keep flagmen at railroad crossings of streets, and provide protection against injury to persons and property in the use of such railroads.
(b) Compel such railroads to raise or lower their railroad tracks to conform to any grade which may, at any time be established by the village, and where such tracks run lengthwise of any such street, alley or highway, to keep their railroad tracks on a level with the street surface, and so that such tracks may be crossed at any place on such street, alley, or highway.
(c) Compel and require railroad companies to make and keep open and to keep in repair ditches, drains, sewers, and culverts along and under their railroad tracks, so that filthy or stagnant pools of water cannot stand on their grounds or right-of-way, and so that the natural drainage of adjacent property shall not be impeded.
(26) Construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts, and tunnels, and to regulate the use thereof;
(27) Construct and keep in repair culverts, drains, sewers, and cesspools, and to regulate the use thereof;
(28) Deepen, widen, dock, cover, wall, alter, or change the channel of watercourses;
(29) Provide for the cleansing and purification of waters, watercourses, and canals, and the draining or filling of ponds on private property, whenever necessary to prevent or abate nuisances;
(30) License, tax, regulate, suppress, and prohibit hawkers, peddlers, and pawnbrokers, keepers of ordinances, theatricals, and other exhibitions, shows and amusements;
(31) License, tax, and regulate hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, carters, cabmen, porters, expressmen, and all others pursuing like occupations, and to prescribe their compensation;
(32) License, regulate, tax, and restrain runners for stages, cars, public houses, or other things or persons;
(33) License, regulate, tax, or prohibit and suppress billiard, bagatelle, pigeon hole, or any other tables or implements kept or used for a similar purpose in any place of public resort, pin alleys, or ball alleys;
(34) Suppress gaming and gambling houses, lotteries, and all fraudulent devices and practices for the purpose of gaming or obtaining money or property;
(35) Establish markets and market houses, and provide for the regulation and use thereof;
(36) Regulate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, and all other provisions, and to provide for place and manner of selling the same;
(37) Provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures;
(38) Enforce the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors;
(39) Regulate the construction, repairs and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers, and gutters;
(40) Regulate places of amusement;
(41) Prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cock fights, and all disorderly conduct;
(42) Regulate partition fences and party walls;
(43) Prescribe the manner of constructing stone, brick, and other buildings, and construction of fire escapes therein;
(44) Regulate and prevent storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, Roman candles, skyrockets, and other pyrotechnic displays;
(45) Prescribe the duties and powers of a Chief of Police, police officers, and watchmen;
(46) Use the county’s jail for the confinement of punishment of offenders, subject to such conditions as are imposed by law, and with the consent of the County Board;
(47) Provide for ordinances in regard to the relation between all the officers and employees of the village in respect to each other, the village, and the people;
(48) Prevent and suppress riots, routs, affrays, noises, disturbances, and disorderly assemblies in any public or private place;
(49) Prohibit and punish cruelty to animals;
(50) Declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same; and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue, or suffer nuisances to exist;
(51) Appoint a Board of Health, and prescribe its powers and duties;
(52) Do all acts, make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease;
(53) Establish and regulate cemeteries within or without the village, and acquire lands therefor, by purchase or otherwise, and cause cemeteries to be removed, and prohibit their establishment within one mile of the village;
(54) Regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at-large of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese, and dogs, and to impose a tax on dogs;
(55) Provide for the erection and care of public buildings necessary for the use of the village;
(56) Tax, license, and regulate secondhand and junk stores; and
(57) Pass all ordinances, rules, and make all regulations, proper or necessary, to carry into effect the powers granted to the village, with such fines or penalties as the Board of Trustees shall deem proper.
(B) By condemnation or otherwise, to extend any street, alley, or highway over or across, or to construct any sewer under or through any railroad track, right-of-way, or land of any railroad company (within the village limits); but where no compensation is made to such railroad company, the village shall restore such railroad track, right-of-way or land to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired its usefulness.
(C) The Board of Trustees shall have no power to grant the use of or the right to lay down any railroad tracks in any street of the village to any steam, dummy, electric, cable, horse, or other railroad company, whether the same shall be incorporated under any general or special law of the state now or hereafter in force, except upon the petition of the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street, or so much thereof as is sought to be used for railroad purposes; and when the street or part thereof sought to be used shall be more than one mile in extent, no petition of land owners shall be valid unless the same shall be signed by the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of each mile and of the fraction of a mile if any in excess of the whole miles measuring from the initial point named in such petition, of such street or the part thereof sought to be used for such railroad purposes.
(Prior Code, § 1-6-7) (Ord. 4-1910, passed - -)