Sec. 20.
The council shall have the power to prohibit and prevent obstructions and incumbrances in and encroachments upon the public highways, streets, and alleys of the village, and remove the same; and to punish those who shall obstruct, encumber, encroach or maintain any encroachment, upon or in any such highway, street or alley; and to require all such persons to remove every such obstruction, incumbrance or encroachment.
History: 1895, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 19, 1895 ;-- CL 1897, 2788 ;-- CL 1915, 2659 ;-- CL 1929, 1568 ;-- CL 1948, 67.20