( e ) To regulate the construction, care, and use of streets, sidewalks, canals, wharves and piers in the municipality, and prevent and remove obstacles and encroachment on the same. (f) To construct and keep in repair bridges and viaducts, and regulate the use of the same. ( g ) To regulate the selling, giving away, or dispensing of intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed, or fermented liquors at retail. ( h ) To declare and abate nuisances. ( i ) To restrain riots, disturbances, and disorderly assemblages. (j) To prohibit and penalize intoxication, fighting, gambling, mendicancy, prostitution, the keeping of disorderly houses, and other species of disorderly conduct or disturbance of the peace. ( k ) To provide for the punishment and suppression of vagrancy and the punishment of any person found within the town without legitimate business or visible means of support. ( l ) To suppress and penalize cruelty to animals. ( m ) To prohibit the throwing or depositing of filth, garbage, or other offensive matter in any street, alley, park, or public square; provide for the suitable collection and disposition of such matter and for cleaning and keeping clean the streets, alleys,  parks, and other public places of the municipality. ( n ) To regulate the keeping and use of animals, in so far as the same affect the public health and the health of domestic animals. ( o ) To require any land or building which is in an insanitary condition to be cleansed at the expense of the owner or tenant, and, upon failure to comply with such an order, have the work done and assess the expense upon the land or buildings. (p) To construct and keep in repair public drains, sewers, and cesspools, and regulate the construction and use of private water-closets, privies, sewers, drains, and cesspools. ( q ) To establish or authorize the establishment of slaughterhouses and markets, and inspect and regulate the use of the same. Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 641