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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
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Charter of the City of Lake City
Sec. 30. That the Council shall have power
to provide the said municipality with waterworks, 14/257
to be within or beyond the boundaries of the said
Lake City; to provide for the prevention or ex­
tinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish
fire departments; to provide for the lighting of the
city.
Sec. 31. That the Council shall have power
to open, alter, extend, widen, establish, grade,
pave or otherwise improve, clean and keep in
repair, streets, alleys and sidewalks, and to erect
and keep in repair bridges, culverts, sewers and
gutters.

Sec. 32. That the Council shall have power to
order the paving or otherwise improving of any
street, or portion thereof, in such manner as they
may deem proper.

*Sec. 33. That the Council shall have power
to prohibit by ordinance, and suppress all gambling
houses, bawdy houses, and disorderly houses, any
exhibition, show, circus, parade or amusement
contrary to good morals, and all obscene pictures
and literature; to regulate, restrain, or prevent the
carrying on of manufactories dangerous in in­
creasing or producing fires; to regulate the storage
of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun
cotton, gasoline, coal oil, and all other com­
bustibles, explosives and inflammable material,
and the use of lights, candles, lamps and steam
pipes in all stables, shops and other places; to
regulate or suppress the sale and use of fire­
crackers, and all other fireworks, toy pistols, air­
guns and sling shots; to provide for the arrest, im-

*As amended April 16, 1903.

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