81.190. Acquisition of property--regulation of business (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

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81.190. Acquisition of property--regulation of business (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Acquisition of property--regulation of business (cities of 10,000 to30,000).

81.190. Any such city may acquire, by condemnation,purchase, gift, lease or otherwise, property, real and personal,within such city or beyond the limits thereof, and establish,construct, maintain, add to, equip, improve, own, control,regulate and operate libraries, art galleries, museums, parks,places of recreation, auditoriums, convention halls,refrigerating plants, fountains, bathing places, wateringtroughs, public toilets, markets, market houses, abattoirs,medical dispensaries, laboratories, infirmaries, hospitals,poorhouses, charitable institutions, employment agencies,pawnshops, jails, city halls, engine houses, houses ofcorrection, reform schools, workhouses and work farms, detentionhomes, morgues, cemeteries, crematories, garbage collection andgarbage disposal and reduction plants and equipments, streetcleaning and sprinkling plants and equipment, gas plants,telephone systems, telegraph systems, electric light systems,electric or other heat systems, electric or other power systems,electric or other railways, ferries and transportation systems ofany kind; waterworks, quarries, wharves, docks, waterways,canals, streets, avenues, alleys, lanes and all other publicbuildings, places, works, equipment and institutions, and allother public utilities, not herein enumerated and everythingrequired therefor; and to sell, convey and encumber the same, tosell water, gas, electric current and all products of anyutilities operated by the city; and to lease to corporations orto individuals when authorized by a vote of a two-thirds majorityof the voters of the city, voting at any general city election,for the purpose of maintenance and operation and for a term notexceeding ten years, any public utility owned by the city, but nosale of any utility shall be made, unless the same shall beauthorized by a two-thirds vote of the voters of said city at ageneral city election thereof.