(1)The governing body of each
municipality has the power:
(a)To deepen, widen, dock, cover, wall, alter, or change the channel of
watercourses;
(b)To establish markets and market houses and provide for the regulation
and use thereof. No charge or assessments of any kind shall be levied on any truck
or other vehicle, or on the owner thereof, bringing produce or provisions to any of
the markets in the municipality, for standing in or occupying a place in any of the
marketplaces of the municipality or in the streets contiguous thereto on market
days and evenings previous thereto. The governing body has full power to prevent
forestalling, to prohibit or regulate huckstering in the markets, and to prescribe the
kind and description of articles which may be sold and the stands and
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(1) The governing body of each
municipality has the power:
(a) To deepen, widen, dock, cover, wall, alter, or change the channel of
watercourses;
(b) To establish markets and market houses and provide for the regulation
and use thereof. No charge or assessments of any kind shall be levied on any truck
or other vehicle, or on the owner thereof, bringing produce or provisions to any of
the markets in the municipality, for standing in or occupying a place in any of the
marketplaces of the municipality or in the streets contiguous thereto on market
days and evenings previous thereto. The governing body has full power to prevent
forestalling, to prohibit or regulate huckstering in the markets, and to prescribe the
kind and description of articles which may be sold and the stands and places to be
occupied by the vendors. The governing body may authorize the immediate seizure,
arrest, or removal from the markets of any person violating its regulations as
established by ordinance, together with any article of produce in his possession,
and additionally may authorize the immediate seizure and destruction of tainted or
unsound meat or other provisions.
(c) To establish and operate at public expense municipal slaughterhouses
and cold storage plants where animals may be slaughtered at the cost of labor and
other necessary expense, held in cold storage, and delivered to the owners or sold.
Any municipality establishing and operating such slaughterhouse shall charge a
reasonable fee for the slaughter of animals and the storage of meat, and said fees
shall be used to pay the necessary expenses of conducting the business.
(d) To provide for and regulate public scales and to require the vendors of
coal, hay, and like articles of merchandise, when requested to do so by the
purchaser of such articles, to weigh the same upon the public scales before
delivering the same to their customer or vendees;
(e) To erect, establish, and maintain public hospitals, medical dispensaries,
and other suitable places of relief. No such hospitals, medical dispensaries, or other
suitable places of relief shall be established, acquired, or erected by a municipality
unless the question is submitted at a regular or special election and approved in the
manner provided for authorization of bonded indebtedness by section 31-15-302
(1)(d) and unless such municipality does not have a general licensed medical and
surgical hospital in operation within its municipal limits within the twelve months
immediately preceding said election.
(f) To provide by ordinance for the construction, maintenance, and operation
of public parking facilities, buildings, stations, or lots and to pay for their cost by
general tax levy or otherwise or by the issuance of bonds of such municipality,
which bonds may be retired by revenues assessed and collected as rentals, fees, or
charges from the operation of such facilities or from parking meter rentals or
charges;
(g) To develop, maintain, and operate mass transportation systems, either
individually or jointly with any government, county, or other political subdivision,
pursuant to the provisions of part 2 of article 1 of title 29, C.R.S.;
(h) To construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts, and tunnels and
regulate their use and to establish within the municipal limits all toll bridges and
ferries, license and regulate the same, and, from time to time, fix tolls thereon;
(i) To construct, maintain, and operate safety measures that are necessary to
allow the municipality to restrict the sounding of locomotive horns at highway-rail
grade crossings in compliance with 49 U.S.C. sec. 20153, as amended, and the
applicable rules of the federal railroad administration. The governing body of the
municipality shall construct, maintain, and operate the safety measures in
accordance with the provisions of section 40-4-106, C.R.S., and the standards of
safety prescribed by the public utilities commission pursuant to section 40-29-110,
C.R.S.
(j) To provide in the municipal budget for programs that support education
and outreach on environmental sustainability and for financing capital
improvements for energy efficiency retrofits and the installation of renewable
energy fixtures, as defined in section 30-11-107.3, C.R.S., for private residences and
commercial property within the municipality but that do not exempt the
municipality from the requirements of any other statute;
(k) To encourage homeowners to participate in utility demand-side
management programs where applicable.