§ 7.

(a)

The city council shall have power, by the concurrent vote of a majority of the whole number of council members, with the written approval of the mayor, or over the mayor's veto, as herein provided, to make, alter, and repeal ordinances not inconsistent with law, or the provisions of this charter and all amendments thereto, which shall be valid and operative within the limits of the city, for the government of Bridgeport and the management of its business, for the preservation of good order, peace and health, for the welfare and safety of its inhabitants and the protection and security of their property. It is authorized and empowered, by ordinance, to regulate, amplify and define the corporate powers. The city council may prescribe fines, penalties, and forfeitures of goods for the violation of any ordinance, and otherwise provide for the enforcement and collection of the same, when not inconsistent with law or this charter.

(b)

The city council is authorized and empowered to enact ordinances concerning, regulating and controlling the production and emission of smoke from chimneys, smokestacks or other sources; concerning, regulating and controlling air pollution caused by the escape of soot, cinders, noxious or harmful or unnecessary acids, fumes, gases, vapors and fly ash or other substances or things; concerning, regulating or controlling the sale, use and consumption of fuels, tending to create or contributing to the creation of air pollution or the emission of smoke of unreasonable, unnecessary, harmful or offensive density; concerning, regulating or controlling the construction, reconstruction, repair, installation, maintenance, use of and additions to furnaces, stoves, ovens, incinerators, refuse-burning equipment and all fuel-burning plants, including all fuel-burning equipment and devices, and requiring notice to said city of all purchases and sales thereof; establishing or creating a bureau, office, department or other agency or agencies for the adequate enforcement of such ordinance or ordinances; establishing fees for the examination of plans and issuance of permits, inspection of furnaces or other fuel-burning equipment or devices, issuance of certificates of operation, and for other purposes as may be required in connection with the full and adequate enforcement of such ordinance or ordinances; providing fines and penalties for the violation of any provision of such ordinance of ordinances, within the terms and limits of the fines and penalties permitted to be imposed by law for violation of any ordinance of said city of Bridgeport.

(c)

The city council shall have no authority to exempt the city of Bridgeport or any public or private industry or enterprise from the provisions of any ordinance or ordinances adopted pursuant to the provisions of subSection (b) of this section.

(d)

The city council may, by ordinance, provide in what manner snow, ice, or sleet shall be removed from the sidewalk in front of any land or building in the city, and may, in like manner, provide for the collection of the expense of such removal, when done by the city, from the owner or occupier of the land or building adjoining any such sidewalk.

(e)

If any person or persons, upon whom any of the orders specified in subSection (d) of this Section shall have been made, shall neglect to perform the requirements of any such order, in the manner and within the time specified in such order, the city engineer may execute such order at the expense of the city; and such expense, if such negligent person be only the occupant, and not the owner of such premises, may be collected from such person by warrant of distress, under the hand of the mayor of the city, in the same manner as town taxes are the law collected. If such negligent person shall be the owner of such premises, then such expense shall be and remain a lien or real encumbrance on such premises in favor of the city, and the payment thereof may be enforced by the city, in like manner, in all respects as is authorized and provided, in the case of benefits assessed for the layout or alteration of streets and highways and all the provisions in relation to liens and the collection of benefits, are incorporated into this Section and made applicable to such expenses, mutatis mutandis; provided, however, that the lien created by this action shall be good and valid, if the certificate thereof shall be lodged at any time within six months from the time of the commencement of the work for which such lien is claimed, and shall embrace any number of claims for work performed at different times during such period.

(f)

The city council shall continue to have power to establish by ordinance a district or districts in the city within which no person shall erect, enlarge, or elevate any building, or addition to a building, unless the outer walls and the covering of the roof thereof be composed wholly of fireproof materials, and no person shall move any building from one place to another in said district, or from within said district outside the same, or from outside said district into the same, unless the exterior walls and the covering of the roof of such building be composed wholly of fireproof materials. If in the opinion of said city council public safety shall require, it may by ordinance establish rules and regulations concerning the compulsory use of fireproof materials, in whole or in part, in the construction within said fire limits of any building or part of building, provided any building of dimensions not greater than twelve feet square and one story in height above the ground, not having the outer walls and the covering of the roof composed of fireproof materials, may be so erected or moved, subject to the restriction that there shall be no chimney, fireplace, stove, furnace, or stovepipe in or attached to such building, and provided the city council may, by a two-thirds vote of the members thereof and the approval of the mayor thereto, remove the prohibitions herein authorized to be imposed concerning any building, upon written petition to the city council signed by each owner of property located within two hundred feet of the lot on which such building may stand or be proposed to be built.

(g)

The city council may, by ordinance, regulate the moving of buildings through the streets of the city. No building shall be moved through any of the public streets or highways within the limits of the city, except in accord with such ordinance.

(h)

Every person who shall violate or infringe or aid in violating or infringing any of the provisions or requirements contained in subsections (f) and (g) of this Section or any of the provisions, conditions, or regulations of any license granted or of any ordinance established by the city council, under any of the provisions of said sections, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by the city in any proper form of action; and any person who shall continue or aid in continuing any such violation or infringement, shall forfeit and pay to the city the sum of fifty dollars for each and every month during which such violation or infringement shall be continued, to be in like manner recovered; and, in addition thereto, such building or addition shall be assessed fourfold in the list of polls and ratable estate of the city.