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Section 1.12. Specific Powers [continued].
(33) to provide that persons given jail sentences in the municipal court shall work out such sentence in any public works or on the streets, roads, drains and squares of the city; or to provide for commitment of such persons to any county work camp or jail by agreement with the appropriate county officials;
(34) to adopt ordinances and regulations for the prevention of loitering, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and disturbing the peace in the corporate limits of the city and to prohibit the playing of lotteries therein, and to prohibit or regulate by ordinance such other conduct and activities within the city which, while not constituting an offense against the laws of this State, is deemed by the governing authority to be detrimental and offense to the peace and good order of the city or to the welfare of the citizens thereof;
(35) to regulate and license, or prohibit the keeping or running at large of animals and fowl and to provide for the impoundment of game, if in violation of any ordinance or lawful order; also to provide for their disposition by sale, gift, or humane destruction, when not redeemed as provided by ordinance; to provide punishment for violation of ordinances enacted hereunder;
(36) to regulate the operation of motor vehicles and exercise control over all traffic, including parking, upon or across the streets, roads, alleys and walkways of the city;
(37) to regulate and license vehicles operated for hire in the city; to limit the number of such vehicles; to require the operators thereof to be licensed; to require public liability insurance on such vehicles in the amounts to be prescribed by ordinance; and to regulate and rent parking spaces in public ways for the use of such vehicles;
(38) to provide and maintain a system of pensions and retirement for officers and employees of the city;
(39) to levy and provide for the collection of special assessments to cover the costs for any public improvements;
(40) to enter into contracts and agreements with other governmental entities and with private persons, firms, and corporations providing for services to be furnished and payments to be made thereof;
(41) to create, alter or abolish departments, boards, offices, commissions and agencies of the city, and to confer upon such agencies the necessary and appropriate authority for carrying out all the powers conferred upon or delegated to same;
(42) to make, ordain and establish such bylaws, ordinances, rules and regulations as shall appear necessary for the security, welfare, convenience and interest of the city and the inhabitants thereof, and for preserving the health, peace, order and good government of the city;
(43) to provide penalties for violation of any ordinance adopted pursuant to the authority of this Charter and the laws of the State of Georgia;
(44) to exercise the power of arrest through duly appointed policemen and to organize and operate a firefighting agency;
(45) to establish procedures for determining and proclaiming that an emergency situation exists within or without the city, and to make and carry out all reasonable provisions deemed necessary to deal with or meet such an emergency for the protection, safety, health or well-being of the citizens of the city;
(46) to provide comprehensive city planning for development by zoning, subdivision regulations and the like as the city council deems necessary and reasonable to insure a safe, healthy, and aesthetically pleasing community;
(47) to organize and operate an urban redevelopment program;
(48) to organize and operate such public transportation systems as are deemed beneficial;
(49) to exercise and enjoy all other powers, functions, rights, privileges and immunities necessary or desirable to promote or protect the safety, health, peace, security, good order, comfort, convenience, or general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, and to exercise all implied powers granted in this Charter to be held to be exclusive of others, nor restrictive of general words and phrases granting powers; but shall be held to be in addition to such powers unless expressly prohibited to municipalities under the Constitution or applicable laws of the State of Georgia.
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