SEC. 2. Subsections (b), (c), (s) and (w) of section two thousand five hundred and fifty-three of the same Code are amended to read as follows:
"(b) To provide for the levy and collection of taxes and other city revenues and apply the same to the payment of municipal expenses in accordance with appropriations.
"(c) To tax, fix the license fee, and regulate the business of the following: hawkers, peddlers, hucksters, not including hucksters or peddlers who sell only native vegetables, fruits, or foods, personally carried by the hucksters or peddlers, auctioneers, plumbers, barbers, embalmers, collecting agencies, mercantile agencies, transportation companies and agencies, advertising agents, tattooers, hotels, clubs, restaurants, lodging houses, boarding houses, livery stables, private police detectives, massagists, manicurists, chiropodists, hair dressing or beauty parlors, painters, night clubs, theaters, boarding stables, dealers in large cattle and dogs, laundries, cleaning and dyeing establishments, shooting galleries, merry-go-round and other similar riding devices, brewers, distilleries, rectifiers, money changers, and brokers, stockbrokers, the keeping of, preparation, and sale of meat, poultry, fish, game, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, bread and other provisions, establishments for storage of combustible materials, dance halls or schools, physical or beauty and fashion schools, circus and other similar parades, public vehicles, horse races, bowling alleys, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, billiard and pool tables, dealers in second-hand merchandise, theatrical performances, blacksmith shops, foundries, lumber yards, the storage and sale of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gasoline, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin, petroleum or any of the products thereof and of all other highly combustible or explosive materials, and other establishments likely to endanger the public safety or give rise to conflagrations or explosions, soap factories, tailor shops, dress shops, milliners, manufacturers of embroideries, native cloths, rope, papers, slippers or sandals or both, harness or valises or bags or any of them, textiles, rattan goods, wire or brass beds or both, men's shirts, hats, printers or bookbinders or both, dyes, bottles or glasswares or both, salted or dried fish or both, fertilizers, nails, and buttons, dealers in hardwares, glasswares, electrical goods and construction materials, groceries, drugstores, dealers of arms, ammunitions, and sporting goods, and such other businesses, trades and occupations as may be established or practised in the city.
"(s) To fill up or require to be filled up to a grade necessary for proper sanitation any and all lands and premises which may be declared and duly reported by the Department of Health as being insanitary by reason of being below such grade or which in the opinion of the council, the public health or welfare may require.
"(w) To enforce the regulations of the Department of Health, and by ordinance to provide fines and penalties for violations of such regulations; to adopt such other measures to prevent the introduction and spread of disease as may, from time to time, be deemed desirable or necessary."