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CHARTER Ch. 1, § 2 (29) (30) (31) (32) (33) (a) infectious diseases, and prevent and suppress diseases generally; to provide and regulate hospitals within or without the city limits, and to enforce the removal of persons afflicted with contagious or infectious disease to hospitals provided for them, tol provide for the organization of a department of health, to have the powers of a board of health, for said city, with the authority necessary for the prompt and efficient performance of its duties, with powers to invest any or all the officials or employees of such department of health with such powers as the police officers of the city have; to establish a quarantine ground within or without the city limits and such quarantine regulations against infectious and contagious disease as the said council may see fit, subject to thelaws of the sta~e and the United States; to provide and keep records of vital statistics and compel the return of all births, deaths and other information necessary thereto. To acquire byepurchase, gift, devise, condemnation or otherwise lands, either within or without the city, to be used, kept and improved as a place for the interment of the dead, and to make and enforce all necessary rules and regulations for the protection and use thereof; and generally to regulate the burial and disposition of the dead. To exercise full police powers, and establish and maintain a department or division of police. To create, regulate and maintain a fire department for the city and to prescribe the duties of said departments and its officers. For the purpose of guarding against the calamities of fires, the city council may, from time to time, designate such portions and parts of the city as it deems proper within which inflammable buildings may not be erected. It may prohibit the erection of wooden buildings or buildings of inflammable material in any portion of the city without its permission, and may provide for the removal of such buildings or addi- tions which shall be erected contrary to such prohibition at the expense of the builder or owner thereof; or if any building in process of erection or already built appears clearly to be unsafe, the council may cause such building to be taken down, after reasonable notice to the owner; and the councilmay; by proper ordinance, divide the city into zones; specify the kind and' character of buildings which may be erected in the different zones; provide for the disposition of garbage and waste; provide precau- tionary measures against danger from fires; provide for the removal of buildings or structures of any kind, erected in violation of ordinances, at the expense of the builder or owner; and :may do all other things lawful to. be done, looking to the health and safety of the inhabitants of the city. The city council shall not take or use any priVate property for streets or other public purposes without making the owner thereof just compensation for the same; but in cases where the council cannot by agreement obtain title to the ground for such purposes the council may exercise the power of eminent domain, as provided by law; and shall, subject to the following paragraphs, have all the powers provided in §§