3. Section 3. The city may acquire, construct, own, lease, operate and regulate public utilities; may assess, levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on all the subjects and objects which the city may lawfully tax; may provide for the issuance of bonds of said city for the purpose of providing the first cost of installation and connection of sewers and water works on and to property when such installation and connection shall have been ordered by the proper health authorities and to provide for a lien on such property for the money so used; may borrow money on the faith and credit of the city by the issue and sale of bonds of the city; may appropriate the money of the city for any and all lawful purposes; may create, provide for, construct, regulate and maintain all things in the nature of public works and improvements; may levy and collect assessments for local improvements, including water main extension and boulevard lighting systems; may provide for the election or appointment of and fix the salaries and compensation of all officers and employees except as herein otherwise provided; may provide for taking a census of the city; may regulate and control the use for whatever purpose of the streets, alleys and other public places; may establish and maintain a police force for the good government of the city and for the protection of the persons and property of the inhabitants thereof, may enact ordinances and resolutions and establish and enforce regulations to guard against the occurrence of fire and to protect the property and persons of the inhabitants against damage and accident resulting therefrom and for this purpose may establish and maintain a fire department including officers, employees, equipment, apparatus and buildings necessary therefor; may construct, maintain and regulate fountains and public drinking places, including watering troughs; may do any and all things needful, necessary and proper to furnish, supply, control and regulate water supply, sewage, sewage disposal, sanitation and sanitary control within or without the boundaries of the city, upon such terms and conditions as the council shall decide; may build and equip or acquire by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or agreement city hospitals and provide for the management, operation an [and] maintenance of the same; may take all needful and necessary steps for the care and relief of the poor and indigent, delinquent and juvenile offenders, those mentally or physically deficient, and the removal and remedying of the causes thereof, and may regulate, control and prohibit the bringing to the city from any other place of any pauper or other person likely to become a charge upon the city.
