§ 29. Authority to regulate amusements, businesses and nuisances.

Be it further enacted, that the City Council of Cumming shall have power and authority to license and regulate theatrical exhibitions, merry-go-rounds, circuses, and shows of all kinds; drays, hacks, automobiles, trucks, auto-buggies, and vehicles of all kinds, as well as private vehicles; and also traveling venders of patent medicine, soaps, notions, and all articles, except such as are exempt by the laws of this State; also hotels, chain-stores, boarding-houses, restaurants, fish-stands, laundries, billiard, pool, and other kinds of tables, tenpins, shooting galleries, and bowling alleys, and all contrivances and devices for carrying on games; also barber-shops, livery stables, slaughter-houses, butcher-pens, tan yards, automobile repair-shops, black-smith shops, steam gins, sawmills, planing mills; also auctioneers, peddlers, and pawn-brokers; the sale of near beer and similar nonintoxicating beverages, and imitations or substitutes for beer or malt or other liquors; and all other classes of kinds of business within the police power of said city, and to fix the amount of the licenses therefor and collect the same; and also said city council shall likewise have power and authority to levy and collect a specific or occupation tax on all businesses, occupations, professions, callings, trades, or avocations, public or private, exercised within the city, as may be deemed just and proper; said city council may close up and prohibit entirely any business, factory, establishment, or place of business in the event the same becomes a nuisance or is dangerous or injurious to health of the people of said city. They shall have like power to remove or cause to be removed all dilapidated buildings or unsafe buildings, fences, chimneys, or structures of any kind which may be considered a nuisance or dangerous, and also to have excavations, dry wells, pits, and ditches filled when deemed expedient.

In case of the removal by the authorities of the City of Cumming of any obstruction of any kind or character on any of the streets, lanes, alleys, ways, or sidewalks of said city, or in case of the removal or abatement of any nuisance of any kind, character, or description within said city, where the work of abatement or removal is done by said city, and wherein such of obstructions or nuisances the property owner or citizen responsible therefor shall have failed to remove the same after due notice and hearing provided by law, the costs of such work or removal or abatement shall be chargeable to the person responsible therefor or the owner of the property upon which the same exists, either or both, and such costs of removal or abatement shall be enforceable and collectible from such citizen or property owner by the issuance of an execution therefor, in the same manner that executions are issued for paving and street improvements, and shall be enforceable in the same manner as such executions, shall be subject to the same defenses and rules governing such executions issued for paving or street improvements, and shall have and be a lien of equal dignity and rank; provided, however, that in cases of sales of real or personal property under the executions herein provided, the full title thereto shall pass, there shall be no right of redemption by the owner, but such sale shall be final and conclusive and the purchaser thereat shall be vested with the full title to the property sold and entitled to immediate possession.