SEC. 14. A regular meeting of the common council shall be held on Monday of each week, excepting legal holidays, at such hour as may be fixed by ordinance, provided that an additional regular meeting shall be held in the forenoon of the last day of the fiscal year in which the mayor's term expires; and the common council may also be specially convened by the mayor in pursuance of law. Any session of either house may be continued or adjourned from day to day or for more than one day, but no adjournment of either house shall be for a longer period than until the next regular meeting thereafter as provided in this charter, and neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn to another place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. Petitions or remonstrances shall be presented to either or both houses of the common council in writing only.

SEC. 15. The mayor shall call special sessions of the common council by proclamation, which shall be published as may be provided by ordinance. Whenever a special session of the common council shall have been called by the mayor, he shall state to each house, in writing, when assembled, the cause or causes for which they have been convened, and their action shall be confined to such cause or causes.

SEC. 16. The common council shall be a continuing body for all legislative purposes for and contemporaneous with the term for which the members of the lower house are elected, and all ordinances and resolutions pending in either house which shall not have been passed by the common council before the end of each term for which the members of the lower house are elected, as provided in this charter, shall expire with said term, and be of no validity or effect for any purpose whatsoever.

SEC. 17. Members of the common council shall at all times, for the purpose of inspection, have free access to the books, papers and records of the city in all public offices, and any committee of the common council, or of either house thereof, may investigate the transactions and accounts of all officers having the collection, custody or disbursement of public money, or having power to approve, allow or audit demands on the treasury, and any such committee in making such investigation, or in investigating any matter that may lawfully be referred to it by said common council, or either house thereof, shall have power to summon witnesses, administer oaths and affirmations, and examine witnesses, and compel their attendance before them by subpoena, and any person appearing before any such committee shall have the right to be represented by counsel.

ARTICLE III.

Powers of Common Council-Procedure.

SECTION I. All powers conferred upon the city by the charter shall be exercised by ordinance, except as otherwise provided in this charter, and the mayor and common council shall have power by ordinance, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, and subject to the limitations expressed in this charter :

First: To provide for the management and control of the finances and of all property, real, personal and mixed, belonging to the city, and to appropriate money and to provide for the payment of all debts and expenses of the city.

Second: To acquire for the city such property, real, personal and mixed, as may be needed for public use, when the method for acquiring the same has not been otherwise provided in this charter; to provide the manner and method of entering into contracts by the city in all cases not in this charter otherwise provided; to accept or reject all property, real, personal and mixed, given, conveyed, devised or bequeathed to the city, and to provide for the execution of all trusts accepted by the city; to provide for the purchase of property levied upon under execution in favor of the city; to provide for the purchase of real or personal-property when sold for delinquent taxes and assessments levied or imposed under the charter of the city, and to sell and convey the same, but the sum paid by the city for any piece or parcel of property so sold on execution in favor of the city or for a delinquent tax or assessment, shall not exceed the amount of such debt, tax, or assessment and the necessary costs and expenses of the proceedings for the collection of the same; to provide for the sale at public auction of all personal property unfit or unnecessary for the use of the city, and all other property, real, personal or mixed, which the city may lawfully sell.

Third: To provide for the levying of assessments and collection of taxes upon all property made taxable for city purposes within the limits of the city and not excepted by general law from municipal taxation.

Fourth: To license, tax and regulate all trades, professions, occupations, practices, pursuits and employments carried on, and places and institutions maintained, and the manufacture of, the dealing in, or the use of any instrument, article, mechanism, merchandise, commodity, utility or convenience whatsoever, within the limits of said city, and to fix the license tax thereon to be paid by all persons engaged in such trades, professions, occupa-· tions, practices, pursuits, and employments, or in maintaining such places and institutions, or in manufacturing, dealing in, or using any such instruments, articles, mechanisms, merchandise, commodities, utilities or conveniences.

And in the exercise of the foregoing powers, the common council is authorized to license, tax and regulate merchants, manufacturers, plumbers, second hand dealers, coal dealers, ice dealers, ice wagons, junk dealers, ice cream dealers, milk dealers, horse dealers, mule dealers, cattle dealers, stock yard and wagon yard proprietors, patent right dealers, commission merchants, produce dealers, mercantile agencies, undertakers, meat shops; agents, auctioneers, real estate agents, real estate brokers, financial agents, brokers, loan agents, rental agents, lightning rod agents, sewing machine companies, sewing machine agents, cash register agencies, agents for cash registers, advertising agents, railroad ticket agents, railroad ticket brokers, produce brokers, merchandise brokers, railway traffic agents, amusement ticket brokers, lumber brokers; brewers, distillers, brewers' agents, brewers' agencies, malt dealers, typewriter agencies, insurance companies, fire insurance companies, life insurance companies, accident insurance companies, insurance agents, fire insurance agents, life insurance agents, accident insurance agents, fire insurance solicitors, fire insurance brokers; abstractors or guarantors of land titles; bankers, banking corporations, trust companies, investment companies, lenders of money on chattels and chattel mortgages, loan and brokerage companies; newspaper publishers, publishing companies, publishing houses, printing establishments; public lecturers, lawyers, doctors, itinerant doctors, corn doctors; lock, private and venereal hospitals, veterinary hospitals, veterinary surgeons; barber shops, manicure and hair dressing establishments, bath houses; hotels, apartment houses, restaurants, boarding houses, tenement houses, office buildings, public halls, public grounds; photographers, artists; shows, exhibitions, circuses, operatic, theatrical and other exhibitions; amusements, concerts, theaters, theatrical agents, amusement parks, cattle shows, horse shows, dog shows, poultry shows, animal shows, menageries, museums, sparring exhibitions, equestrian exhibitions, horoscopic views, cycloramas, panoramas, skating rinks,

wrestling exhibitions, boxing contests, public masquerade balls, street exhibitions; shooting galleries, dance halls, dance houses; fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists, lung testers, muscle developers; billiard parlors, billiard and pool tables and other tables and instruments used for amusement, pin alleys, ball alleys; telegraph companies, telephone companies, electric light companies, street railway companies, electric companies, gas companies, conduit companies, subway companies; poles and wires of telegraph, telephone, electric light, street railway and all electric and power companies; oil companies, mining companies, express companies; agents and agencies for the sale of oil stock, mining stock and other stocks; street railway cars, omnibuses, hansom cabs, hackney coaches, drays, job wagons, carts, carriages, barouches, buggies, wagons, automobiles, bicycles and all yehicles, private or public; hawkers, hucksters, peddlers, auction house proprietors, runners, drummers, keepers of knife and board cane racks, street stands, intelligence and employment offices and the keepers and occupants thereof; bill posters; inspectors and gaugers, private detectives, private detective agencies; public scales, grain elevators, storage and transfer houses; nurseries and nurserymen, agents and solicitors for nurseries, laundries and laundry agents; slot weighing machines, automatic sales machines, slot machines, gift enterprises; pool rooms, saloons, dramshops, beer houses, tippling houses, wine gardens and beer gardens.

The foregoing enumeration of powers shall be construed to be in explanation and not in limitation of the general powers herein granted, and the common council shall have power to license, tax and regulate all trades, professions, pursuits, or employments not hereinbefore enumerated, of whatever name or character, like or unlike, and fix the amount of license tax to be paid thereon.

The city may charge a separate license tax for each place of business conducted or maintained by the same person, firm or corporation.

Fifth To license, tax and regulate hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, chaffeurs or automobile drivers, porters, express drivers, and all other persons, firms or corporations pursuing like occupations, with or without vehicles, and to fix and prescribe uniform rates and charges for such service to the public; and to regulate, license, tax, restrain and prohibit runners for steamboats, cars, stages, hotels and public houses.

Sixth To have exclusive power to license ferries, and to regulate the same, and the landing thereof within the limits of the city, and to fix and prescribe the charges and fees for ferries.

Seventh Subject to the limitations of this charter to direct the manner of issuing and regulating licenses, and the fees and charges to be paid therefor, and to provide for the revoking of the same. No license shall be granted for more than one year; and not less than one dollar shall be charged for any license under this charter or any ordinance, and the fees for issuing same shall not exceed one dollar, and all such fees shall belong to the city.

Eighth: To remove and prevent all obstructions in the Missouri River within said city, and to widen, straighten and deepen the same; to improve and preserve the navigation thereof, and to erect, repair and regulate wharves and docks, and to regulate the rates of wharfage within the limits of the city.

Ninth: To provide the city with water; to make, regulate and establish public wells, pumps, cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, in or under the streets within the city, or beyond the limits thereof, for the extinguishment of fires and convenience of the inhabitants, and to prevent the unnecessary waste of water.

Tenth: To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamps thereon, and to regulate the price and quality of gas, gasoline, electricity and other means of lighting, and the manner and means of lighting by electricity and the power thereof, and to compel any gas company, electric light company, corporation or individual to change and relocate any gas mains and pipes, or any poles or conduits for electric wires.

Eleventh To have control and power over the streets, sidewalks, alleys, landings, public grounds and highways of the city; to establish, open, alter, widen, extend, vacate, grade, pave, repave, block, reblock, sprinkle, or otherwise improve, clean and keep in repair the same; to prevent and remove all encroachments thereon or obstructions thereof; to put drains and sewers in the same, and to regulate or prohibit the building of vaults or areas under sidewalks; to regulate the use of the public streets, alleys and highways of the city, for telegraph, telephone, electric light, electric power lines, and other pole lines above the surface, and to compel all lines and wires of every character within the city to be placed and kept under ground, and to regulate the use of the streets for conduits, subways, mains, pipes, and all structures beneath the surface thereof; and to regulate and control for any and every purpose the use of the streets, highways, alleys sidewalks, public thoroughfares and public places and grounds of the city;

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To prohibit racing, or fast or immoderate riding or driving every kind of animal or vehicle in the streets, highways, public thoroughfares and grounds of the city, and to authorize any per