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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF LINCOLN PARK, MICHIGAN
CERTIFICATION
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2022)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
CHARTER
PREAMBLE
CHAPTER I Incorporation, Boundaries, Ward and Election Precincts
CHAPTER II Registration, Nomination and Election
CHAPTER III Elective Officers
CHAPTER IV Appointive Officers
CHAPTER V City Council
CHAPTER VI Powers of City and Council
Section 1. Ordinance authorized to exercise powers.
Section 2. Council authority; specific matters enumerated.
Section 3. Same; enumeration of powers continued.
Section 4. Licenses; terms; conditions; etc.; ordinance required.
Section 5. Licenses; expiration date; transferability; proceeds; fines; penalties.
Section 6. Police force personnel.
Section 7. Public health; preservation; protection.
Section 7a. Buildings and structures; water and sewer system; connection required.
Section 8. Fire protection.
Section 9. Commanding aid at fires; Fire Department authority.
Section 10. Fire districts.
Section 11. Zoning.
Section 12. Fires; razing buildings; authority; damages; payment; determination.
Section 13. Fire hazards; nuisance declared; abatement.
Section 14. Building sidewalks; regulations; ordinance required; violations; penalty.
Section 15. City utilities; service beyond City boundaries.
Section 16. Approval of plats; requisites.
Section 17. Public ways; sewers; supervision and control.
Section 18. Public ways; use for utilities; compensation.
Section 19. Sale of public property; limitation.
Section 20. Same; requisites.
Section 21. Authority to receive gifts, bequests and donations.
Section 22. Acquisition of property.
Section 23. Acquisition of real estate.
Section 24. Markets.
Section 25. Partition fences.
Section 26. Impounding vehicles, animals, etc.
Section 27. Nuisance abatement.
Section 28. Buildings and zoning.
Section 29. Railways.
Section 30. Public utility franchises.
Section 31. Employment of experts.
Section 32. Municipal powers; public utilities and improvements.
Section 33. Authority to borrow; State law.
Section 34. Specific grants of authority not limited; exception.
Section 35. Authority granted by State law incorporated by reference.
CHAPTER VII Finance and Taxation
CHAPTER VIII Appropriation of Private Property
CHAPTER IX Public Improvements
CHAPTER X Bonds
CHAPTER XI Justice Court (Repealed)
CHAPTER XII Recall and Removal
CHAPTER XIII Definitions, Construction and General Provisions
CHAPTER XIV Submission of Charter and Election
CHAPTER XV Department of Public Safety
CHAPTER XVI Municipal Service Board
CHAPTER XVII Policemen's and Firemen's Retirement System (Effective July 1, 1943)
CHAPTER XVIII Retirement System
PART TWO - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART EIGHT - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FOURTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
CHAPTER VI
Powers of City and Council
Section 1. Ordinance authorized to exercise powers.
In addition to all other powers in this Charter granted, the City shall have the general powers and authority granted in this chapter; and the Council shall pass such ordinances and resolutions as it shall deem expedient in order to exercise such powers.
Section 2. Council authority; specific matters enumerated.
The Council shall have power to prohibit, prevent and suppress:
      1.   Vice and immorality;
      2.   Houses of ill fame;
      3.   Disorderly and assignation houses;
      4.   The sale or giving away of spirituous, fermented or intoxicating liquors;
      5.   Saloons;
      6.   Mock auctions and every kind of fraudulent game, device or practice;
      7.   Lotteries, gambling and gambling houses;
      8.   Indecent exposure of the person;
      9.   The show, sale or exhibition for sale of indecent or obscene pictures, drawings, engravings, paintings, books and pamphlets;
      10.   Indecent or obscene shows and exhibitions;
      11.   Wanton destruction of property;
      12.   Riots;
      13.   Disorderly persons and disorderly assemblages of persons;
      14.   Disturbance of any religious meeting, congregation, society or other public meeting assembled for any lawful purpose;
      15.   Wearing of masks or covering which conceal part or all of the wearer's face while assembling, marching or parading on any street, highway or public place, except masquerade parties or amusement or public parades;
      16.   Use of a red flag, except for railway and transportation purposes, and except as a sign of danger;
      17.   Nuisances;
      18.   Injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive or unhealthy; and
      19.   Disorderly persons, prostitutes and any person owning, operating, maintaining or doing any of the things enumerated above.
The Council shall have power to provide for the arrest and punishment of vagrants, truants, beggars, drunkards and persons found drunk in any of the public streets or places of the City.
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