SEC. 17. General powers of Board stated in detail.—In addition to the foregoing the Board shall have the following general powers:
(a) To collect taxes for general and special purposes, in accordance with law.
(b) To prescribe the time, places, and manner of payment of salaries and wages to city officials and employees.
(c) To provide for the erection or rental and care of buildings necessary for the use of the city.
(d) To establish and maintain free public schools for primary instruction and to provide schoolhouses therefor, subject to the limitations of Act Numbered Seventy-four.
(e) To provide secondary schools, and professional schools, with the approval of the city superintendent, and to charge matriculation and tuition fees with the same approval.
(f) To maintain police courts established by law, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all criminal cases under the ordinances of the city, and such further jurisdiction as may be herein or hereafter conferred.
(g) To release any person imprisoned for violation of a city ordinance and to remit the sentence of such person, or any part thereof.
(h) To establish fire limits, and regulate the kinds of buildings and structures that may be erected within said limits, and the manner of constructing and repairing the same.
(i) To erect engine houses, and provide fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, and other equipment for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to provide for the management and use of the same.
(j) To issue licenses, fixing the amount of the license fee and prescribing the time and manner of issuing or revoking the same, and to make regulations for the following:
(k) Hawkers, peddlers, hucksters, pawnbrokers, dealers in secondhand merchandise, junk dealers, auctioneers, plumbers, brewers, distillers, money changers and brokers, hotels, restaurants, cafes, lodging houses, public vehicles, public ferries, livery stables, billiard tables, theaters, theatrical performances, race tracks, horse races, circuses, and all other forms and places of amusement: the keeping, preparation, and sale of meat, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, bread, and other provisions.
(l) To regulate the business and fix the location of tanneries, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories, match factories, blacksmith shops, foundries, steam boilers, lumber yards, shipyards, and other dangerous, offensive, or unwholesome establishments; the storage and sale of gunpowder, tar. pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin. petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and all other highly combustible or explosive materials.
(m) To inspect and regulate the method of using steam engines and boilers, other than marine, and to charge a reasonable inspection fee for so doing, and to license all engineers engaged in operating the same.
(n) To suppress houses of ill-fame and oilier disorderly houses, gaming houses, gambling, and all fradulent devices for the purpose of gain and of obtaining money or property; to prohibit the printing, sale, or exhibition of immoral pictures, books, or publications of any description.
(o) To regulate and license or suppress cockfighting and cockpits.
(p) To license, regulate, or prohibit the keeping of dogs, and to authorize their impounding and destruction when running at large contrary to ordinance.
(q) To establish and maintain city pounds; to regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at large of domestic animals, and provide for the distraining, impounding, and sale of the same for the penalty incurred, and the cost of the proceedings; also to impose penalties upon the owners of said animals for the violation of any ordinance in relation thereto.
(r) To prohibit and provide for the punishment of cruelty to animals.
(s) To provide for the inspection and scaling of weights and measures, enforce the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors, and regulate the inspection, weighing, and measuring of brick, coal, lumber, and other articles of merchandise.
(t) To lay out, construct, improve, and regulate the use of streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, wharves, piers, parks, cemeteries, and other public places; to prevent and remove encroachments and obstructions from the same; to provide for the lighting, cleaning, and sprinkling of streets and public places; to regulate or prevent the use of the same for processions, signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts; the carrying or displaying of banners, placards, advertisements or handbills, or the flying of signs, flags, or banners across, over, or from any building along the same.
(u) To prohibit the throwing or depositing of offal, garbage, refuse, or other offensive matter in the same, and to provide for its collection and disposition; to regulate the openings therein for the laying of gas, water, sewer, and other pipes therein, the building and repair of tunnels, sewers, and drains, and all structures therein and thereunder, and the erecting of poles and the stringing of wires therein; to provide for and regulate cross-walks, curbs, and gutters therein; to name and change the names of the same, and provide for and regulate the numbering of houses and lots fronting thereon; to regulate traffic and sales upon the same; to abate nuisances in the same, and punish the authors or owners thereof; to construct, maintain, and regulate the use of bridges, viaducts, and culverts; to prevent and regulate playing ball, flying kites, and rolling hoops, and any other amusements having a tendency to annoy persons using the streets or public places, or to frighten horses or other animals; to regulate the speed of horses and other animals, vehicles, cars, and locomotives within the limits of the city; to regulate the locating, constructing and laying of the track of any horse, electric, or other form of railroad in the streets or other public places of the city authorized by law; to provide for and change the location, grade, and crossings of any railroad, and to compel such railroad to raise or lower its tracks to conform to such provisions or changes; to require any railroad company to fence its railroad, or any part thereof, to provide suitable protection against injury to persons or property, and to construct and repair ditches, drains, sewers, and culverts along and under its tracks, so that the natural drainage of the streets and adjacent property shall not be obstructed.
(v) To construct, maintain, and regulate the use of canals and water courses, and provide for the cleansing and purifying of the same, and the draining and filling of private premises to prevent or abate nuisances.
(w) To construct and maintain public landing places, wharves, piers, docks, levees, and to regulate and control the use of the same, and all private landing places, wharves, piers, docks, and levees. To maintain waterworks for the purpose of supplying water to the inhabitants of the city, to purify the source of supply, and regulate the control and use of the water, and to fix and collect rents therefor; to regulate the construction, repair, and use of hydrants, pumps, cisterns, and reservoirs, and to prevent the waste of water.
(x) To establish, maintain, and regulate the use of public drains, sewers, latrines, and cesspools, and regulate the construction and use of private drains, sewers, latrines, and cesspools.
(y) To provide for the establishment of public stables and bath houses, and to inspect and regulate the same.
(z) To establish public markets, market houses, and slaughterhouses, and provide for the regulation, inspection, and use thereof, and to regulate or prohibit the establishment of such institutions by any person, firm, or corporation.
(aa) To make suitable provisions to insure the public safety from conflagrations and the effects of floods, storms, and other public calamities, and to provide relief for persons suffering from the same.
(bb) To establish, maintain, and regulate a police force, prescribe the powers and duties of its members, and make and enforce all necessary police ordinances, with the view to the confinement and reformation of vagrants, disorderly persons, mendicants, and prostitutes, and persons convicted of violating any city ordinance; to provide for the arrest, trial, fining, and putting to work on the streets and elsewhere of such persons.
(cc) To extend and enforce all its ordinances over all waters a within the city, and over the Bay of Manila three miles beyond the city limits, and over any boat or other floating structure thereon; and for the purpose of protecting and insuring the purity of the water supply of the city, to extend and enforce ordinances to that end over all territory within the drainage area of such water supply, or with one hundred meters of any reservoir, conduit, canal, aqueduct, or pumping station used in connection with the city water service.
(dd) To enforce the regulations of the Insular Board of Health and to impose fines and penalties against persons who violate such regulations.
(ee) To fix rates and collect wharfage from all water craft landing at or using public wharves, docks, levees, or landing places.
(ff) To provide for the closing of opium joints, and to prohibit the keeping or visiting of any place where opium is smoked or sold for the purpose of smoking.
(gg) To regulate the use of lights in stables, shops, and other buildings and places, and to regulate and restrain the building of bonfires and the use of firecrackers, fireworks, torpedoes, candles, skyrockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.
(hh) To prevent and suppress riots, affrays, disturbances, and disorderly assemblies; to punish and prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, and all disorderly conduct; and to keep the peace.
(ii) To make, publish, amend, and repeal all ordinances, necessary to carry into effect the powers herein granted, and to enforce the same by fines and penalties, within the limits authorized by law.
