10-8-47. Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit
larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and
embezzlement -- Sale of liquor, narcotics or tobacco to minors -- Possession of controlled
substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts.
They may prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cockfights, prize fights,
bullfights, and all disorderly conduct and provide against and punish the offenses of assault and
battery and petit larceny; they may restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances or disorderly
assemblies in any street, house or place in the city; they may regulate and prevent the discharge of
firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks or any other dangerous or combustible material; they may
provide against and prevent the offense of obtaining money or property under false pretenses and
the offense of embezzling money or property in all cases where the money or property embezzled
or obtained under false pretenses does not exceed in value the sum of $100 and may prohibit the
sale, giving away or furnishing of intoxicating liquors or narcotics, or of tobacco to any person
under twenty-one years of age; cities may, by ordinance, prohibit the possession of controlled
substances as defined in the Utah Controlled Substances Act, provided the conduct is not a class
A misdemeanor or felony, and provide for treatment of alcoholics, narcotic addicts and other
persons who are addicted to the use of drugs or intoxicants such that they substantially lack the
capacity to control their use of the drugs or intoxicants, and judicial supervision may be imposed
as a means of effecting their rehabilitation.
Amended by Chapter 50, 1981 General Session
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