The Council of said City shall have power to lay off, vacate, close, open, alter, grade and keep in good repair the roads, streets, cross-streets, alleys, pavements, sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and gutters therein, for the use of the citizens, or of the public, and to improve and light the same, and to keep them free from obstructions of every kind; to regulate the width of the pavements and sidewalks on the streets and alleys, and to order the pavements, sidewalks, footways, drains and gutters to be kept in good order, free and clean, by the owners or occupants of the real property adjacent thereto; to establish and regulate markets, prescribe the times of holding the same, provide suitable and convenient buildings therefor, and prevent the forestalling or regrating of such markets; to prevent injury or annoyance to the public or to individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome; to prohibit or regulate slaughterhouses, tan-houses and soap factories within the City limits; or the exercise of any unhealthy or offensive business, trade or employment; to abate all nuisances within the City limits, or to require and compel the abatement or removal thereof by or at the expense of the person causing the same, or by or at the expense of the owner or occupant of the ground on which they are placed or found; to cause to be filled up, raised or drained, by or at the expense of the owner, any City lot or tract of land covered or subject to be covered by stagnant water; to prevent horses, hogs, cattle, sheep or other animals, and fowls of all kinds, from going or being at large in such City, and as one means of prevention, to provide for impounding and confining such animals and fowls, and upon failure to reclaim, for the sale thereof; to protect places of divine worship, and preserve order in and about the premises where and when such worship is held; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures, and for the making and maintaining of division fences by the owners of adjoining premises, and for the proper drainage of City lots or other parcels of land by or at the expense of the owner or occupant thereof; to provide against danger or damage by fire; to punish for assaults and batteries; to prohibit loitering in or visiting houses of ill fame, or loitering in saloons, or upon the streets; to prevent lewd or lascivious conduct, the sale or exhibition of indecent pictures or other representations; the desecration of the Sabbath day; profane swearing; the illegal sales of all intoxicating liquors, drinks, mixtures and preparations; to protect the persons of those residing or being within said City; to appoint when necessary or advisable a police force, permanent or temporary, to assist the Marshal in the discharge of his duties; to build or purchase, or lease and use, a suitable place of imprisonment within or near the said City for the safekeeping or punishment of persons charged with or convicted of the violation of ordinances; to erect, or authorize or prohibit the erection and operation of gas, water works, electric light and power works and other public utilities within the City limits; to prevent injury to such works, or the pollution of any gas or water used or intended to be used by the public or by individuals; to provide for and regulate the weighing or measuring of hay, coal, lumber and other articles sold, or kept for sale, within said City; to establish, construct, alter, remove and repair landings, wharves and docks, and to establish and correct rates and charges for the use thereof; to regulate the running and speed of engines, cars, automobiles and other vehicles within the said City; to create by ordinances such committees and boards, and delegate such authority thereto, as may be deemed necessary or advisable; to provide for the annual assessments of the taxable property therein, and for a revenue for the City for Municipal purposes, and to appropriate such revenue to its expenses, and generally, to take such measures as may be deemed necessary or advisable to protect the property, public and private, within the City; to preserve and maintain peace, quiet and good order therein and to preserve and promote the health, safety, comfort and well-being of the inhabitants thereof. The Council shall have authority to pass all ordinances (not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of this State), which shall be necessary or proper to carry into full effect and power, authority, capacity or jurisdiction which is or shall be granted to or vested in the said City, or in the Council, or any officer or body of officers of said City, and to enforce any or all of their ordinances by reasonable fines and penalties, and by imprisoning the offender or offenders; and upon failure to pay any fine or penalty imposed, by compelling them to labor without compensation, at any of the public works or improvements, undertaken or to be undertaken by said City, or to labor at any work, which the City may lawfully employ labor upon, at such a rate per diem as the Council may fix, but not at a less rate than is fixed by said Council for like labor from other employees of said City, until any fine or fines and costs imposed upon any such offender or offenders by said City, shall have been fully paid and discharged, after deducting charges of support while in the custody of the officers of said City. Provided, however, that no fine shall be imposed exceeding twenty dollars, and that no person shall be imprisoned or compelled to labor, as aforesaid, more than thirty days for any one offense. And in all cases where a fine is imposed for an amount exceeding ten dollars, or a person be imprisoned or compelled to labor as aforesaid, for a term greater than ten days, an appeal may be taken from any such decision upon the same terms and conditions that appeals are taken from the judgment of a justice of this State. Such fines and penalties shall be imposed and
recovered, and such imprisonment inflicted and enforced, by and under the judgment of the Mayor of said City, or in case of his absence or inability to act, by the Clerk of the said City, or, if he be unable to act, then by a member of the Council to be appointed by the Council for that purpose. And the jurisdiction of said City, for police and criminal purposes, shall extend to ordinary high water mark on the southerly bank of the Great Kanawha River, and to all bridges crossing said river within the boundary of said City.