Statute Text
Powers
of common council.
(1) The mayor and alderpersons shall compose the common council of any city
organized under sections 1 to 6, pages 119 to 123, Oregon Laws 1893. At any
regular council meeting, the common council may:
(a) Provide for
lighting the streets and furnishing such city and its inhabitants with gas or
other lights, and with pure and wholesome water. For such purpose it may
construct such water, gas or other works, within or without the city limits, as
may be necessary or convenient therefor. It may allow the use of the city
streets and alleys to any person, company or corporation who may desire to
establish works for supplying the city and inhabitants thereof with such water
or lights upon such reasonable terms and conditions as the common council may
prescribe.
(b) Permit, allow
and regulate the laying down of tracks for streetcars and other railroads upon
such streets as the common council may designate, and upon such terms and
conditions as the common council may prescribe.
(c) Allow and
regulate the erection and maintenance of poles, or poles and wires, for
telegraph, telephone, electric light or other purposes, upon or through the
streets, alleys or public grounds of such city.
(d) Permit and
regulate the use of alleys, streets and public grounds of the city for laying
down or repairing gas and water mains, for building and repairing sewers and
for erecting gas or other lights.
(e) Preserve the
streets, lights, side and crosswalks, bridges and public grounds from injury,
prevent the unlawful use of the same and regulate their use.
(f) Fix the
maximum rate of wharfage, rates for gas or other lights, rates for carrying
passengers on street railways and water rates. No city shall ever deprive
itself of the right through its common council of regulating and adjusting any
such rates, so that the same shall be reasonable for the service rendered, at
least once in any period of two years.
(g) License, tax,
regulate, restrain and prohibit barrooms and tippling houses, and all places
where spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are sold, or in any manner disposed of
contrary to law. No license shall be issued for a lesser sum than that provided
by law.
(h) Prevent and
suppress gaming and gambling houses, and all games of chance, including
lotteries and pool selling.
(i) Prevent and
suppress bawdyhouses, lewd and lascivious cohabitation, opium-smoking houses
and places occupied or kept therefor.
(j) License,
regulate and control any lawful business, trade, occupation, profession or
calling, carried on or conducted within the corporate limits of any such city.
(k) Suppress and
prohibit anything that is injurious to the public morals, public safety or
public health of the inhabitants of any such city. The common council may
define, suppress and prohibit nuisances of every kind, including those arising
out of the receipt, sale or disposal of intoxicating liquor in violation of
law.
(L) Regulate,
suppress and prohibit the running at large within the corporate limits of any
and all domestic animals, including fowls, and provide for the impoundment and
sale, after notice, of such animals.
(m) Exercise any
and all police regulations concerning the public morals, public safety, public
health and public convenience of the inhabitants of any such city.
(n) Provide for
the surveying of blocks and streets of the city and for marking the boundary
lines of such blocks and streets, and the establishing of grades of the
streets, sidewalks and crosswalks.
(o) Prevent and
punish trespass on real and personal property within the corporate limits of
such city.
(p) Make bylaws
and ordinances not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this
state to carry into effect the provisions of ORS 221.901 to 221.928.
(q) Provide, in
addition to such action as may be appropriate to carry into full effect the
object to be achieved, for the punishment of persons violating any bylaws or
ordinances by fine or imprisonment, or both, and the working of such persons on
the city streets or at any other work.
(2) Nothing
contained in ORS 221.901 to 221.928 shall be so construed as to oust the state
courts of jurisdiction to indict or punish persons for offenses against any law
of the state committed within the limits of any such city. [Amended by 2003
c.14 §110; 2005 c.22 §165; 2011 c.597 §171]