1845 Iowa Acts 119
Abstract
An Act to Incorporate and Establish the City of Dubuque, chap 123, § 12: The city of Dubuque shall have the authority to regulate the storage of gun powder.
Summary
This provision grants the city council broad authority to enact ordinances protecting public safety, health, morals, and order within the city. Its powers include preventing crime and disorder, suppressing riots and gambling, punishing indecent conduct, imposing fines and penalties for violations, and specifically regulating the storage and sale of gunpowder within city limits.
Law Text
SEC. 12. That the said city council shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty to make and publish from time to time, all such ordinances as shall be necessary to secure said city and the inhabitants thereof, against injuries by fire, thieves, robbers, burglars and all other persons violating the public peace; for the suppression of riots and gambling, and indecent and disorderly conduct; for the punishment of all lewd and lacivious behavior in the streets and other public ilaces in said city; they shall have power from lime to tine to majke and publish all such laws and ordinances as to them shall seem necessarv to provide for the safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity and improve the morals, order, comfort and convenience of said city, and the inhabitants thereof, to impose fines, forfetiures and penalties on all persons offending against these laws and ordinances of said city, and provide for the prosecution, recovery and collection thereof, shall have power to regulate by ordinance the keeping and sale of gun-powder within the city.
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Categories
GUNPOWDER - STORAGE