13-436.   Health and sanitation; election, when.To make regulations to secure the general health of the city; to preventand remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privyvaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those alreadyconstructed; to compel and regulate the connection of all property withsewers; to suppress hogpens; to regulate or suppress slaughterhouses andstockyards, and prescribe and enforce regulations for cleaning and keepingthe same in order; and the cleaning and keeping in order of warehouses,stables, alleys, yards, private ways and grounds, outhouses, and otherplaces where offensive matter is kept or allowed to accumulate, and tocompel and regulate the removal of garbage and filth beyond the citylimits; and also to provide for taxing and to tax the cost of abating orremoving any nuisance against any lot or tract of ground upon which thesame is located and maintained, and to levy, certify and collect the sameas a special assessment, in the same manner as for repairing and buildingsidewalks, in all cases where the owner, occupant or agent of said propertyshall fail, refuse or neglect to abate or remove said nuisance, afterreceiving notice to do so and being given a reasonable time in which toremove or abate the same, where said city has been compelled to abate orremove said nuisance.

      The city may, when authorized by a majority of the votes cast at anelection held for the purpose of voting funds to pay for the same, alsoestablish and construct or cause to be established and constructedcrematories, desiccating or reduction works, within or without the city,for the purpose of destroying dead animals, night soil, and garbage, andmake all rules necessary for the operation of the same.

      History:   L. 1903, ch. 122, § 56; L. 1905, ch. 109, § 1; March 21; R.S. 1923,§ 13-436.