The Council shall have plenary power and authority therein by ordinance or resolution as the case may require, so far as such power or authority is not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State or the Constitution of the United States, to lay off, vacate, close, open, curb, recurb, pave or repave and keep in good repair, roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and gutters, for the use of the public, and to improve and light the same, and have them kept free from obstructions on or over them; to prevent by proper fines and penalties the throwing, depositing or permitting to remain on any street, sidewalk, alley, lane, square or other public place any glass, scrap iron, nails, tacks, wire, other litter, or any offensive matter or any thing likely to injure the feet of persons or animals or the tires of vehicles; to regulate the use of streets, alleys, lanes and sidewalks for vehicles propelled by man power, and for other vehicles the use of which is not regulated by general laws; to regulate the width of sidewalks on the streets, and, subject to Section 21 hereof, to order the sidewalks, footways and crosswalks to be curbed, recurbed, paved, repaved and kept in good order, free and clean, by the owners or occupants thereof, or of the real property next adjacent thereto; to establish and regulate markets, and prescribe the time of holding the same; to prevent injury or annoyance to the public or individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome; to prevent hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, dogs or other animals, and fowls of all kinds, from going at large in such town; to protect places of divine worship and to preserve peace and order in and about the premises where held; to arrest, convict and punish any person for keeping a house of ill fame, or for letting to another person any house or other building for the purpose of being used or kept as a house of ill fame, or for knowingly permitting any house owned by him, or under his control, to be kept or used as a house of ill fame, or for loafing, boarding or loitering in a house of ill fame, or frequenting same; to arrest, convict and punish any person for importing, printing, publishing, selling or distributing any book or other thing containing obscene language; to arrest, convict and punish any person for cruelly, unnecessarily or needlessly beating, torturing, mutilating, killing or overloading or overdriving, or willfully depriving the necessary sustenance, any horse or other domestic animal; to arrest, convict and punish any person for gambling or keeping gaming tables, commonly called A. B. C. or E. O. table or faro bank or keno table, or table of like kind, under any denomination, whether the gaming table be played with cards, dice or otherwise, or any person who shall be a partner or concerned in interest, in keeping or exhibiting such table or bank, or keeping or maintaining any gaming house or place, or betting or gambling for money or anything of value; to license, or for good cause to refuse to license in a particular case, or at its discretion to prohibit in all cases, the operation of pool and billiard rooms and maintaining for hire of pool and billiard tables, notwithstanding the general law as to state licenses for such business. When the Council, in the exercise of its discretion, shall have refused to grant a license to operate a pool or billiard room mandamus shall not lie to compel the Council to grant such license, unless it shall clearly appear that the refusal of the Council to grant such license is discriminatory or arbitrary. In the event that the Council decides to license any such business, the Council shall have power and it shall be the duty of the Council, to make and enforce reasonable ordinances regulating the licensing and operating of such businesses; the Council shall also have such power and authority to arrest, convict and punish any person for carrying about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or other deadly weapon of like kind or character, within such town, to arrest, convict and punish any person for driving or operating within such town, a motor vehicle when intoxicated or under the influence of liquor, drugs or narcotics; to provide penalties for the offenses and violations of law mentioned herein in addition to the penalties provided in Section 23 of this article, but which shall not exceed the penalties provided for like offenses and violations in this chapter, and in chapter 61 of this code; to abate or cause to be abated anything which, in the opinion of a majority of the whole Council, shall be a nuisance; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles; to acquire, by purchase, condemnation and otherwise, land in or near the City for providing and maintaining proper places for the burial of the dead and to regulate interments therein upon such terms and conditions as to price and otherwise as may be determined by the Council, and in order to carry into effect such provisions the Council may acquire any cemetery or cemeteries already established; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures, and for making of division fences by the owners of adjacent premises and drainage of lots by the proper drains and ditches; to make regulations guarding against danger or damage by fire; to prevent the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors, drinks, mixtures and preparations therein; to protect the persons and property of the inhabitants of such City, and to preserve peace and good order therein, except as otherwise provided, to prescribe the powers and define the duties of the officers appointed by the Council, fix their terms of service and compensation, and require and take from them bonds, when deemed necessary, payable to such City, in its corporate name, with such sureties and in such penalty as the Council may see fit, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties; to require and take from employees and contractors bonds in such penalties with such sureties and with such conditions, as Council may see fit; to erect, or authorize or prohibit the erection of, gas works, electric light works or waterworks within or without the town and to prevent injury to such works or the pollution of the water and its maintenance in a healthful condition for public use within the town; to regulate and provide for the weighing of hay, coal and other articles sold or for sale in the town; to provide a revenue for the City and appropriate the same to its expenses, which power shall include the power to tax dogs; to impose a license tax on persons or companies keeping for hire carriages, hacks, buggies or wagons; or for carrying passengers for pay in any such vehicle, in such town; to adopt rules for the transaction of business, and the government and regulation of its own body.
Wherever the powers herein granted cannot be reasonably and efficiently exercised by confining the exercise thereof within the corporate limits the powers of the corporation shall extend beyond the corporate limits to the extent necessary to the reasonably efficient exercise of such powers within the corporate limits. But such powers, unless otherwise provided, shall not extend more than one mile beyond the corporate limits, nor shall such powers extend into the corporate limits of another municipal corporation.