7-21-4201. Regulation of certain activities. (1) The city or town council may license, tax, and regulate:

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(a)auctioneers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, and secondhand and junk shops;

(b)motor vehicles and motor vehicle bodies, except those on commercial property, which are not otherwise taxed;

(c)drivers, porters, tenpin alleys, shooting galleries, shows, circuses, street parades, theatrical performances, and places of amusement within the city or town.

(2)The power to license, tax, and regulate circuses and shows of like character extends 3 miles beyond the limits of the city or town.

(3)The council of any city or town may enact necessary ordinances providing for the licensing, taxation, and regulation of soft drink establishments and all pool and billiard halls. The city or town council may regulate and limit the number of such licenses issued and provide by ordinance that the total number of such licenses may not exceed the number fixed by the city or town council by ordinance.