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The city may provide for boiler inspection and regulate steam boilers, and may examine, regulate, and license stationary engineers and others in charge of certain engines, boilers, apparatus, or elevators within the city limits.
A city or town governing body may establish and run jails, correctional houses, and workhouses, and may use county correctional facilities for offenders if required conditions are met.
A city or town governing body may contract with private contractors for city jail management, maintenance, operation, or construction, and must add specified contract terms when the contract covers only management, maintenance, or operation.
Cruelty to animals. They may prohibit cruelty to animals.
They may borrow money for corporate purposes and issue warrants and bonds, subject to the Constitution and laws and to any amounts, forms, and conditions they determine.
They may declare nuisances, abate them, and impose fines on persons who create, continue, or allow nuisances to exist.
The city legislative body may take and manage land and cemetery grounds, and may make ordinances and contracts related to cemetery care and improvement.
Burial of dead -- Vital statistics. They may regulate the burial of the dead, consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots , the registration of births and deaths, direct the returning and keeping of bills of
A municipality may regulate dogs, but if it sets a dog limit it must let people keep a service animal or retired service animal above that limit.
Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction. They may direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, dairies, tanneries, canneries, renderies, bone factories, slaughterhouses,
The corporation may prohibit offensive or unwholesome businesses or establishments within one mile of its limits and may require certain unsanitary places to be cleaned, abated, or removed.
They may provide for censuses, but censuses cannot be taken more often than once every five years unless law provides otherwise.
A city or town governing body may regulate or ban certain conduct on highways or sidewalks when it interferes with traffic, but not if that regulation conflicts with Title 41, Chapter 6a, Traffic Code.
They may issue bonds to replace maturing bonds or to consolidate or refund them.
Lumberyards and combustible materials. They may regulate or prohibit the keeping of any lumberyard, and the placing or piling or selling of any lumber, timber, wood or other combustible material within the fire limits of the city.
They may buy, build, lease, rent, manage, and maintain waterworks-related systems and may pass necessary ordinances for their protection and control.
They may establish, maintain, regulate, and continue free public libraries and reading rooms in the city, as provided by law.
They may regulate or prohibit public demonstrations and processions that interfere with public traffic or tend to cause disorder.
They may provide for the burial of indigent dead and pay the related expenses.
They may authorize the taking and provide for the safekeeping and education of children who are destitute of proper parental care.
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