91.1 General powers. Sec. 1. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), a city incorporated under the provisions of this act has, and the council may pass ordinances relating to, the following general powers: (a) To restrain and prevent vice and immorality, gambling, noise and disturbance, and indecent or disorderly conduct or assemblages; to […]
91.2 License; conditions for granting; revocation; sanctions. Sec. 2. (1) The council may prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a license shall be granted and may require payment of a reasonable sum for a license. The person receiving the license shall, before the license is issued, execute a bond to the corporation, if required […]
91.3 License; term; transfer prohibited; sanctions. Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in section 1(1)(mm) of this chapter, a license shall not be granted for a term beyond the next first Monday in June or be transferable. The council may provide sanctions for a person who, without license, does something for which a license is […]
91.4 License receipts; disposition. Sec. 4. All sums received for licenses granted for any purpose by the city or under its authority, shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit of the contingent fund. History: 1895, Act 215, Eff. Aug. 30, 1895 ;– CL 1897, 3110 ;– CL 1915, 3024 ;– CL 1929, […]
91.5 Franchise rights in streets; council vote; private damage suits. Sec. 5. The council of any city shall have authority to permit any railroad company or street railway company to lay its track, and operate its road with steam, electric or other power, in or across the streets, highways and public alleys of the city, […]
91.6 Railroad track; location and grade of street crossings; construction and repair; flagmen; lighting; enforcement of ordinance prescribing maximum speed limit. Sec. 6. The council may provide for and change the location and grade of street crossings of any railroad track; compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower its railroad […]
91.7 Railroad companies; drainage repairs; failure, expense of company. Sec. 7. The council shall have power to require and compel any railroad company and any street railway company to make, keep open and in repair, such ditches, drains, sewers and culverts, along and under, or across their railroad tracks, as may be necessary to drain […]
91.8 Partition fence; ordinances, by-laws, regulation. Sec. 8. The council is authorized to enact all such ordinances and by-laws as it may deem proper relative to the building, rebuilding, maintaining and repairing of partition fences by the owners and occupants of adjoining lots, inclosures and parcels of land in said city; and relative to the […]
91.9 Support of poor persons; director of the poor. Sec. 9. The council of any city may make such provision as they shall deem expedient for the support and relief of poor persons residing in the city; and for that purpose may provide by ordinance for the election or appointment of a director of the […]
