§ 4. Street Powers.  


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  • The City of Houston shall have power to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, lower, extend, grade, narrow, cure for, sell, pave, supervise, maintain, and improve streets alleys, sidewalks, squares, parks, public places and bridges; and to vacate and close the same and to regulate the use thereof, and to require the removal from the streets and sidewalks of all obstructions, telegraph, telephone, street railway or other poles carrying electric wires, signs, fruit stands, show cases and encroachments of every character upon said streets or sidewalks; to vacate and close private ways. (Act of 1905)