Section 39
SEC. 39. The municipal council shall: (a) Establish and fix the salaries of municipal officers and employees, subject to the limitations expressed in section twenty-two. A list of all salaries authorized by the council shall be posted at the main entrance of the municipal building. (b) Fill a permanent vacancy in the office of vice-president or of councilor, from among persons having the necessary qualifications, by a majority vote of all its members. A person thus substituted as vice-president or councilor shall serve only for the unexpired portion of the term for which his predecessor was elected and until his successor shall have been chosen and qualified. (c) Make appropriations for lawful and necessary municipal expenditures. (d) Manage the property of the municipality. (e) Erect all needful buildings for the use of the municipality. (f) Establish fire limits, prescribe the kind of buildings that may be constructed within said limits and issue permits for the erection of the same, but without charging fees for said permits. (g) Regulate the establishment and provide for the inspection of steam boilers. (h) Provide for lighting the streets and for sprinkling the same in cases where it is deemed desirable. (i) Provide for and regulate the numbering of houses and lots. (j) Regulate the construction, care and use of streets, sidewalks, wharves and piers in the municipality; prevent and remove obstacles and encroachments on the same; and declare and abate nuisances. (k) Construct and keep in repair bridges and viaducts, and regulate the use of the same. (l) Prohibit the throwing or depositing of filth, garbage, or other offensive matter in any street, alley, park, or public square; provide for the suitable collection and disposition of such matter and for cleaning and keeping clean the streets, alleys, parks, and other public places of the municipality. (m) Regulate the keeping and use of animals, in so far as the same affects the public health and the health of domestic animals. (n) Require any land or building which is in an unsanitary condition to be cleansed at the expense of the owner or tenant, and, upon failure to comply with such an order, have the work done and assess the expense upon the land or buildings. (o) Construct and keep in repair public drains, sewers, and cesspools, and regulate the construction and use of private water-closets, privies, sewers, drains, and cesspools. (p) Prohibit the burial of the dead within the centers of population of the municipality and provide for their burial in such proper place and in such manner as the council may determine. (q) Establish or authorize the establishment of slaughterhouses and markets, and inspect and regulate the use of the same. (r) Provide for and regulate the inspection of meat, fruits, poultry, milk, fish, vegetables, and all other articles of food. (s) Adopt such other measures to prevent the introduction and spread of disease as may, from time to time, be deemed desirable or necessary. (t) Establish, regulate and maintain a police department. (u) Provide against the evils of gambling, gambling houses, and disorderly houses of whatsoever sort. (v) Provide for the closing of opium joints and prohibit and punish the keeping or visiting of any place where opium is smoked or sold for the purpose of smoking. (w) Provide for the punishment of mendicants, common prostitutes, or habitual disturbers of the peace. (x) Prohibit and punish intoxication, fighting, and all disorderly conduct. (y) Provide for the arrest, trial, lining, and putting to work on the streets or elsewhere of all persons known to he vagrants, and of persons found within the town without legitimate business or visible means of support. (z)Restrain riots, disturbances or disorderly assemblages. (aa) Regulate or prohibit the running at large of domestic animals within the limits of the municipality. (bb) Prohibit and provide for the punishment of cruelty to animals. (cc) Provide for inspection of weights and measures and enforce the keeping of proper weights and measures by vendors, but without the power to exact fees for such inspection. (dd) Fix the penalties for violation of ordinances, but no single penalty shall exceed a fine of two hundred pesos or imprisonment for six months, or both; imprisonment shall be imposed in lieu of unpaid lines at the rate of one days imprisonment for each peso of the fine. An appeal shall lie to the Court of First Instance, next to be held within the province, in all cases where the judgment shall be for a fine exceeding fifteen pesos or for imprisonment exceeding fifteen days; and it shall be the duty of the provincial fiscal to appear for and represent the prosecution in such appeal cases. Pending the appeal the defendant shall remain in custody unless released upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the provisions of law, to await the judgment of the appellate court. (ee) Establish, maintain and regulate municipal prisons. (ff) Establish and maintain schools. (gg) Establish a post-office and provide the collection and delivery of mails; but such regulations must be in harmony with the postal service and rules established by the General Government. (hh) Provide by ordinance for the levy of taxes for municipal purposes, within the limitations of law, as hereinafter provided in section forty-three. (ii) license and regulate the selling, giving away or disposing in any manner of any intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors, at retail, in quantities of not more than live gallons, and determine the amount to be paid for such licenses, subject to such limitations of general law as may hereafter be enacted. (jj) Make such ordinances and regulations, not repugnant to law as may be necessary to carry into effect and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this Act, and such as shall seem necessary and proper to provide for the health and safety, promote the prosperity, improve the morals, peace, good order, comfort, and convenience of the municipality and the inhabitants thereof, and for the protection of property therein; and enforce obedience thereto with such lawful fines or penalties as the municipal council may prescribe under the provisions of paragraph (dd), of this section.