endanger the public safety by giving rise to conflagrations or explosions; to regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gasoline, benzine, turpentin e, nitroglycerin, petroleum, or any of the products thereof and of all other highly combustible or explosive materials. (f) Public buildings . — To provide for the erection or rental of public buildings necessary for the use of the municipality. ( g ) Schools . — To establish and maintain primary schools, subject to the limitations of law. IScaAE ( h ) Scholarships . — To grant scholarships to municipal teachers and male and female students in the municipality, under such conditions as it may deem convenient to prescribe, subject to the approval of the provincial board and the department governor. ( i ) Building regulations . — To establish fire limits, and prescribe the kind of buildings and structures that may be erected within said limits, and the manner of constructing and repairing the same. ADTCaI (j) Fire department . — To erect engine houses, and provide fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, and other equipment for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to provide for the management and use of the same. Until further provision is made, the law providing for fire protection in municipalities having no paid fire department, except as to the number of authorized volunteer firemen, shall apply to all municipalities. ( k ) Lights, fires, and fireworks . — To regulate the use of lights in stables, shops, and other buildings and places, and to regulate or restrain the building of bonfires and the use of firecrackers, fireworks, torpedoes, and pyrotechnic displays. ( l ) Storms and calamities . — To make suitable provisions to insure the public safety from conflagrations, the effects of storms, and other public calamities, and to provide relief for persons suffering from the same. EcICSA ( m ) Streets, sidewalks, plazas, parks, water supply, and so forth — Special assessmen t. — To provide for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, closing up, constructing, or regulating, in whole or in part, any public plaza, square, street, Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 831