§ 10. Ownership and operation of specified businesses subject to regulation and taxation by village.  


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  • The village shall have the right to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit within the said municipality, or any part thereof, ownership of the following or a general or particular use or sale or display thereof; gasoline, or filling stations; garages; hospitals; undertaking; mortuary; funeral, or ambulance businesses and establishments; keeping of animals, fowls, or other creatures, or exhibits thereof; hucksters, peddlers, solicitors, and other trade or traffic on or over the streets, sidewalks, or ways; pool and billiard parlors; dance halls; miniature golf courses, golf driving courses; theatres; bowling alleys and other amusements and amusement places; explosives, guns, pistols and other weapons; barbecue and soft drink stands; alcoholic beverages; billboards and public advertisements; cemeteries; tourist camps; hotels; and to license, tax and regulate the operation of transportation facilities, including motorbuses and trucks operating in or through the said municipality and using the streets in said municipality, whether the foregoing, or any of them, be owned, operated, or maintained by private, public or quasi-public corporations or agents; and for the revenue or regulation, to license and tax businesses, professions and occupations generally; and to collect and enforce all licenses, excise, privilege and regulatory or revenue taxes in general by levy and sale under a collector's warrant, of property used in the business, profession or occupation or owned by the person, firm or corporation subject to such tax or excise, such levy and sale to be made in such manner and after such notice as the council may prescribe.

Editor's note

This section has been editorially deleted as home rule powers of municipalities are derived from the state constitution and F.S. ch. 166.