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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter of the City of Lake City
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prisonment and punishment of all breakers of
the peace, and to disperse all disorderly assemblies 15/257
on the Sabbath or secular days; to pass all or­
dinances necessary to the health, peace, con­
venience, good order and protection of the citi­
zens, and to carry out the full extent and meaning
of this act, and to accomplish the objects of this
corporation; to impose penalties on the owners,
occupants or agents of any house, walks or side­
walks or other structure, or place or thing, which
may be dangerous or detrimental to the citizens
or their property, unless after due notice the same
shall be remedied or removed; to regulate, tax,
license or suppress by fine or imprisonment the
keeping and allowing to go at large of all animals,
fowls and domestic birds within the city, to im­
pound the same and in default of redemption in
pursuance of ordinance, to sell, kill or otherwise
dispose of the same; to provide for the enclosing,
improving and regulating of all public grounds
belonging to the city in or out of the corporate
limits; to provide for the organization and mainte­
nance of a police force, and to impose fines, for­
feitures and penalties and terms of imprisonment
at hard labor on the streets, or other work to be
designated by ordinance, and to provide ways and
means to prevent their escape; to compel owners
of buildings to erect fire escapes when necessary
for public safety or the safety of the occupants
thereof; to grant the right of way through the
streets, avenues and public grounds for the pur­
pose of street and other railways; to provide for
the construction of sewers and drainage, and for
keeping them in repair, and to assess the expenses
to the property that shall be especially benefited
by the improvement in proportion to the amount

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