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2192 LAWS OF FLORIDA business dangerous in increasing or producing fires; to regulate and prevent the storage of explosives, oils and other combustibles and inflammable material; and to regulate the use of lights, electric wiring and steam pipes in all buildings and other places; to regulate and suppress the storage and sale of firecrackers and all other fireworks, guns, pistols and other fire irons, to;,, pistols, air guns and sling shots; to prohibit and punish all disorderly con- duct, breakers of the peace, and disorderly assemblies; to regulate the use of automobiles, motor trucks and other power driven vehicles; to regulate the use of the streets, alleys, parks and side- walks of the City; to regulate and prohibit the running at large of any wild or domestic animals or fowl; and to provide for the impounding and disposal of the same; to prohibit and provide for the removal and abatement of any dangerous building, struc- ture, encroachment, material or other thing dangerous to the health or safety of the inhabitants; to compel owners of buildings to erect fire escapes and to provide for prevention of fires and the safety of persons in any building or place; and the Council shall have the power to pass all ordinances necessary to the health, peace, convenience, welfare or the protection of the inhabitants of said City and to carry out the full extent and meaning of this Act .,.. and, to accomplish the objects of this corporation; and the City Council may provide fines, forfeiture, terms and imprisonment with or without hard labor and other penalties for the enforcement of ordinances; and may provide ways and means to prevent the escape of prisoners. Section 38. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious and con- tagious diseases and to make quarantine regulations for that pur- pose and to provide for the enforcement of the same within five miles of the City, when same does not conflict with laws of'the . State of Floriria or of the United States. Section 39. That the City.Council.shall have authority to cause to be prepared, as often as it may deem necessary, a code or digest of the City Ordinances, which may be adopted by the City Council as a single ordinance, and it shall not be necessary to post or publish the same in order that the same may become ef- feetive and in force. The Courts in this State shall take judicial cognizance of the code and ordinances of the City, and the printed copy of the code and ordinances officially printed by the City shall be taken in evidence in any trial in which the same may be com- X09