( r ) To provide for and regulate the inspection of meat, fruits, poultry, milk, fish, vegetables, and all other articles of food. 

( s ) To adopt such other measures, including internal quarantine regulations, as may from time to time be deemed desirable or necessary to prevent the introduction and spread of disease. 

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SECTION 2189 . Certain Legislative Powers of Discretionary Character. — The municipal council shall have authority to exercise the following discretionary powers: 

( a ) To suspend or remove, for cause, officers or employees appointed by the president, two-thirds of all the members of the council concurring. 

( b ) To make provision for the care of the poor, the sick, or persons of unsound mind. 

( c ) To establish fire limits in populous centers, prescribe the kinds of buildings that may be constructed within them, and issue permits for the erection thereof. 

( d ) To provide for the numbering of houses and lots; the naming of streets, avenues, and other public places; and for the lighting of streets, and the sprinkling of the same. 

( e ) To establish and maintain municipal roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, plazas, parks, playgrounds, levees, and canals. 

(f) To supply a suitable building for a post-office and provide for the collection and delivery of mail, when it is impracticable for the Bureau of Posts to make provision for these matters. 

( g ) To regulate the keeping of dogs, and authorize the killing or impounding of the same when found at large contrary to ordinance. 

( h ) To require the owners of sheep, goats, swine, or large cattle to keep such animals from moving, running, or being at large except when in charge of some person of sufficient discretion. 

( i ) To regulate cockpits, cockfighting, and the keeping or training of fighting cocks, or prohibit either. 

