not been fixed by Act of Congress or the Philipp ine Legislature; and to provide for the inspection of all gas, electric, telephone, and street-railway wires, conduits, meters, and other apparatus, and the condemnation and correction or removal of the same when dangerous or defective. SECTION  2417 . City Departments . — There shall be the following city departments over which the mayor shall have general supervisory control: ARTICLE  IV Municipal Offices and Officers in General  ( ii ) To declare, prevent, and to provide for the abatement of nuisances; to regulate the ringing of bells and the making of loud or unusual noises; to require owners, agents or tenants of buildings or premises to keep and maintain the same in sanitary cond ition, and, in case of failure to do so, after sixty days from the date of serving a written notice, to assess the cost thereof to the owner, said cost not to exceed sixty per centum of the assessed value and to constitute a lien against the premises; and  to regulate or prohibit the use of property on or near public ways, grounds, or places, or elsewhere within the city, for the display of electric signs or the erection or maintenance of billboards or structures, of whatever material, erected, maintained, or used for the display of posters, signs, or other pictorial or reading matter, except signs displayed at the place or places where the business advertised thereby is in whole or part conducted. (jj) To tax motor and other vehicles and horses not paying the public vehicle license fee. [183-11, 16, 17; 267-2; 613-1; 1150-10; 1189-46 ( b ); 1338-1 ( z ); 2339-187; 2381-12; 2468-1.] HCaDET ( kk ) To enact and adopt all ordinances, regulations and motions necessary to carry into effect and discharge the powers and duties conferred by this chapter, and to provide for the peace, order, safety, and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants;  to fix penalties for the violation of ordinances which shall not exceed two hundred pesos fine and six months imprisonment for a single offense; and to exercise such further powers and perform such further duties as may be prescribed by law. Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 721