exceeding sixty days, as the common council shall by ordinance prescribe.

SEC. 106. All persons who shall have actually abandoned their wives or children in said city, or may neglect to provide, according to their means, for their wives or children, are hereby declared to be disorderly persons, within the meaning of chapter fifty-five of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended, and may be proceeded against in the manner directed by said title; and it shall be the duty of the magistrate before whom any such person may be brought for examination, to judge and determine from the facts and circumstances of the case whether the conduct of said person amounts to such desertion, or neglect to provide for his wife or children.

Police

SEC. 107.* The Common Council of the said city may provide for the appointment by the Board of Police Commissioners for such numbers of policemen or employees as they may deem necessary for the good government of the city, and for the protection of the persons and property of the inhabitants; and may authorize the Board of Police Commissioners to ap point special policemen from time to time when, in the judgment of the Board of Police Commissioners, the emergency or necessity may so require, and may provide for and appoint subordinate officers for police and night watchmen.

SEC. 108.* The Board of Police Commissioners may make and establish rules for the regulation and government of the police, prescribing and defining the powers and duties of policemen and employees, and shall prescribe and enforce such police regulations as will most effectually preserve the peace and order of the city, preserve the inhabitants from personal vio

*As amended April 2, 1923.

lence, and protect public and private property from destruction by fire and unlawful depredation. And the Board of Police Commissioners may, whenever it shall deem it necessary for the preservation of peace and good order in the city, appoint and place on duty such number of temporary policemen as in its judg ment the emergencies of the case may require; but such appointments, unless made in accordance with some ordinance or resolution of the Common Council, shall not continue longer than five days.

SEC. 109.* The Chief of Police, under the direction of the Board of Police Commissioners, shall have the superintendence and direction of the policemen and employees, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Police Commissioners.

SEC. 110.* It shall be the duty of the police and night watchmen and officers of the force, under the direction of the Board of Police Commissioners and the Chief of Police, and in conformity with the ordinance of the city, to suppress all riots, disturbances and breaches of the peace, to apprehend any and all persons in the act of committing any offense against the laws of the state or any ordinance of the city, and to take the offender forthwith before the proper court or magistrate to be dealt with for the offense; to make complaint to the proper officers and magistrates of any person believed to be guilty of the violation of the ordinances of the city or the penal laws of the state, and at all times diligently and faithfully to enforce all such laws, ordinances and regulations for the preservation of good order and the public welfare as the council may ordain, and to serve all process issued under any city ordinance and directed to them for service, and for such purposes the chief of police and every policeman and night watchman shall have all the powers of constables and may arrest upon view

* As amended April 2, 1923.

and without process any person in the act of violating any ordinance of the city, or in the commission of any offense against the laws of the state.

SEC. 111.* The Board of Police Commissioners may suspend or remove from office the chief of police, policeman or night watchman or any employee for misconduct or other cause at any time, as provided in section eighty-three of this act, as amended. When employed in the performance of duty the policeman shall receive such compensation therefor from the city as the common council shall prescribe.

Cemeteries

SEC. 112. Said city may acquire, hold, and own such cemetery or public burial place or places, either within or without the limits of the corporation as in the opinion of the common council shall be necessary for the public welfare and suitable for the convenience of the inhabitants. The common council may prohibit the interment of the dead within the city, or may limit such interments therein to such cemetery or burial place as they may prescribe; and may cause any bodies buried within the city in violation of any rule or ordinance made in respect to such burials, or when public policy shall demand, to be taken up and buried elsewhere.

SEC. 113. The common council may, within the limitations in this act contained, raise and appropriate such sums as may be necessary for the purchase of cemetery grounds, and for the improvement, adornment, protection, and care thereof.

SEC. 114. The common council may pass and enforce all ordinances necessary to carry into effect the provisions herein contained, and to control and regulate such cemetery or burial place or improvement thereof, and to protect the same and the appurte

*As amended April 2nd, 1923.

nances thereof from injury, and to punish violations of any lawful orders and regulations.

SEC. 115. The common council shall have power also to pass all ordinances deemed necessary for the preservation and protection of any cemetery or burial place within the city, belonging or under the control of any church, religious society, corporation, company or association, and for the protection and preservation of the tombs, monuments, and improvements therein and the appurtenances thereof.

Pounds

SEC. 116. The common council may provide and maintain one or more pounds within the city, and may appoint pound-masters, prescribe their powers and duties and fix their compensation, and may authorize the impounding of all animals, geese and other fowls found in the streets or otherwise at large or tied or staked in such streets for the purpose of grazing, contrary to any ordinance of the city; and if there shall be no pound or pound-master, they may provide for the impounding of such animals, geese and fowls, by the city marshal in some suitable place under his immediate care and inspection, and may confer on him the powers and duties of pound-master.

SEC. 117. The common council may prescribe the fees for impounding, and the amount or rate of expenses for keeping, and the charges to be paid by the owner or keeper of the animals, geese and fowls, for the payment of such fees, expenses and charges, and for the penalties incurred, and may impose penalties for rescuing any animals or thing impounded.

Public Buildings, Grounds and Parks

SEC. 118. Said city may acquire, purchase and erect all such public buildings as may be required for

the use of the corporation, and may purchase, acquire, appropriate and own such real estate as may be necessary for public grounds, parks, markets, public buildings, and all other purposes necessary or convenient for the public good, and the execution of the powers conferred by this act; and such buildings and grounds or any part thereof may be sold, leased, mortgaged and disposed of as occasion may require.

SEC. 118a.* All real estate now owned by the City of Ann Arbor and dedicated to park purposes, including all properties, buildings and improvements of every kind connected therewith, together with all property that may hereafter be acquired for park purposes, and all lawn extensions and shade trees, shall be under the exclusive control of five commissioners who shall be electors and actual residents of the said city and shall be known and designated as "The Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Ann Arbor."

SEC. 118b. The members of said board shall be appointed by the mayor of said city on the first Monday of May of each year, or within a reasonable time thereafter, and in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the charter of said city, relative to appointments by the mayor; the full term of each member shall be five years, from the first Monday in May of the year in which he may be appointed and until his successor is appointed and qualified, except as hereinafter specially provided. Whenever the term of office of any member shall expire, his successor shall be appointed by the mayor, as herein provided and his term of office shall date from the expiration of the term of office of the member whom he succeeds. The members of the said board shall devote all the time necessary to a proper discharge of the duties of their offices, and shall serve without pay. At the first meet

*Sections 118a to 118k inclusive were added to the Charter, May 11, 1905.