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Litter in streets. They may regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage or any offensive matter in, and prevent injury or obstruction to, any street, sidewalk, avenue, alley, park or public ground.
They may provide for and regulate the use of crosswalks, curbs, and gutters.
Signs and advertising material. They may regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, public buildings and grounds for signs, signposts, awnings, horse troughs or racks, or for posting handbills or advertisements.
A designated authority may regulate or prohibit placards and handbills on streets, public grounds, or sidewalks.
They may regulate or prevent flags, banners, or signs from being flown across streets or from houses.
They may regulate merchandising and sales on streets, sidewalks, and public places.
The city may be divided into districts for local taxation when needed.
Traffic regulations. They may regulate the movement of traffic on the streets, sidewalks and public places, including the movement of pedestrians as well as of vehicles, and the cars and engines of railroads, street railroads and tramways,
They may regulate the numbering of houses and lots.
They may name and rename streets, courts, parks, thoroughfares, and other public places.
They may regulate railroad and tramway tracks in streets and public places, and may grant franchises for tracks by ordinance, but the permission cannot be exclusive and cannot last more than 100 years.
The provision allows the city to change railroad locations, grades, or crossings, and to remove certain unused railroad or street railway tracks after nine months of nonuse.
A corporation may require railroad companies to fence railroads, build cattle guards and street/public-road crossings, and keep them repaired within the corporation limits.
The city may require rail companies to place flagmen at street crossings or provide other protection, may require track grade changes to match city grades, and may require railway companies to keep drainage works open and repaired along tracks.
They may construct, repair, and regulate the use of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels.
Municipal officials may build and regulate sewer-related systems, require nearby properties to connect, charge for sewer use, and shut off water for noncompliance or nonpayment in limited cases.
Municipal legislative bodies may set license terms and the method for collecting special taxes, but may not discriminate between resident and nonresident community businesses or impose motor vehicle delivery license fees on certain out-of-municipality dealers and businesses without a permanent local location.
City officials may suppress or prohibit specified disorderly houses, prostitution-related conduct, gambling-related conduct, and obscene or lewd publications, but they may not prohibit a woman’s breast feeding where she may otherwise lawfully be.
Regulation of sexually oriented business. As used in this section: "Adult service" means dancing, serving food or beverages, modeling, posing, wrestling, singing, reading, talking, listening, or other performances or activities conducted
Retail tobacco specialty businesses generally need a municipal license and must meet location and permit conditions.
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