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• • • LAWS OF FLORIDA 2211 The City Council shall assess and levy a tax upon the taxable property in said City for the purpose of obtaining interest and raising a sinking fund for the payment of the time warrants pro- vided for by this Act, which tax shall be levied, assessed and col- lected annually in the same manner as other taxes. Section 95. The City Council shall have the power to regulate, fix and prescribe by ordinance the maximum rates to be charged by all automobiles, taxicabs, jitney buses, or wheel chairs carrying or transporting passengers for hire within the City. Section 96. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to regulate and control the use of all streets, alleys, public ways, grounds or other public property by any person, firm or corpora- tion in the erection, placing or maintenance of any poles for tele- graph, telephone, electric or other wires, or for other purposes; to regulate and control the placing and maintenance in any street, alley, public way, ground or other public property of all under- ground wires, pipes or conduits; to require all such poles, wires, pipes or conduits to be kept and maintained in a proper state of repair; to regulate and control the use of the streets, alleys, public ways, grounds or other public property of said City by bicycles, automobiles and other 'vehicles and machines. Section 97. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to regulate and prescribe the width of tires of all vehicles or ma- chines driven or operated upon any street, alley, or other public way of said City; to regulate and prescribe the kinds of tires which may be used upon automobiles and other motor vehicles or machines driven or operated upon any street, alley or other public way of said City, and to require the use upon such vehicles or machines of such tires as will do the smallest degree of damage or injury to the streets, alleys or other public ways of said City: Section 98. Said City shall have full power and jurisdiction over, and the City Council may by ordinance provide for the pro- tection, care and control of, the waters within the City Limits; to keep pure and clean any body of water from which the public water supply of the City is taken; to prohibit the dumping of filth, dirt, garbage, shells, trash, refuse or other things in the waters of the Indian River, or any other lake, canal, or other body of water within the City Limits ; to license, govern, regulate or pro- hibit the permanent anchorage of houseboats or other boats or vessels in the Indian River within the City Limits; to regulate or prohibit the use of boatways or boatyards within the City limits, or to restrict their use to any portion of said City; to control, manage