174. The council may make by-laws:(1) to provide for the inspection of food and other products and their containers, and for the seizure, confiscation and summary destruction of any such products or containers as are unsound, spoiled, or unwholesome; to prohibit the bringing into the municipality of such products and the keeping or selling of such products;
(2) to regulate the construction and maintenance of places where food-stuff are prepared, stored or sold;
(3) to regulate the construction and maintenance of places where fuels and noxious substances are stored or sold;
(4) to regulate or prohibit the storage or sale of fuels or noxious substances;
(5) to ensure the sanitary condition of public and private property and regulate or prohibit unwholesome undertakings and establishments;
(6) to inspect and regulate ice-houses and cold-storage establishments;
(7) to regulate the location, construction, management and cleansing of storing places for hides and, generally, all places or establishments in which animal matter is dealt with;
(8) to regulate the establishment of cemeteries and burial sites and the burial and disinterment of the dead;
(9) to prevent the pollution of the waters within or adjacent to the municipality and to provide for the cleansing and purification of municipal waters, and to compel the owner or occupant of any building or ground to remove from the premises owned or occupied by him all such offensive substances as the council may direct, and, upon his default, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof at the expense of such owner or occupant;
(10) to regulate the sewerage of the municipality and to maintain and operate or cause a third person to operate a sewage collection and disposal system;
(11) to prevent the throwing out or depositing of waste and provide for the collection, removal and disposal of the same; to provide for the periodical cleaning of waste water reservoirs; to impose a compensation each year on the owner, lessee or occupant of each house, store or other building for the services of collection, removal and elimination of waste and for the periodical cleaning of the waste water reservoirs, of an equal amount for each person or an amount fixed according to the categories determined by regulation;
(12) to construct, equip and operate plants for the elimination or recycling of waste and to regulate or prohibit the use of places as dumps;
(13) to regulate or prohibit the escapement of smoke, gas and effluents from engines, factories or establishments;
(14) to define what shall constitute a nuisance and to regulate or prohibit the same, including noise.