1873 Mo. Laws 215

SEC. 10. The board of trustees shall have power and authority to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to organize and establish fire companies; to regulate or prohibit the erection of wooden buildings in any part of the town, and provide for the removal of the same when they shall be declared dangerous by reason of decay or otherwise; to regulate the fixing of chimneys, and fix the flues thereof; to regulate the storage of gun-powder, tar, pitch, rosin and other combustible materials; to regulate and order parapet walls and partition fences.