SECTION 218

(1) The objective of the council police shall be to ensure public order, safety, tranquillity, security and cleanliness. (2) Its duties shall include: (a) providing safe and convenient passage in streets, wharfs, public squares and routes, notably the cleaning, lighting, removal of obstructions, demolition or renovation of buildings falling in ruins, prohibition from placing on windows or on any part of buildings any object that may cause damage or produce harmful exhalations; (b) the means of transporting deceased persons, interment and exhumation, maintenance of order and decency in cemeties, without anybody being authorized to make epitaphs or special write-ups stating the circumstances of the death; (c) inspection of appliances and/or instruments used for foodstuffs sold by weight or measure, and the safety of edible foodstuffs displayed for sale; (d) prevention, through appropriate precautionary measures, and intervention, through the provision of required assistance, in case of accident and calamity such as fire accidents, floods and other natural disasters, epidemics and contagious diseases, epizootics, the implementation of emergency safety, assistance and relief measures and, where necessary, seeking the intervention of the representative of the State to whom a report on the measures prescribed shall be presented; (e) measures taken concerning the insane whose situation may compromise public morality, the security of persons or preservation of property; (f) intervention to prevent or remedy unfortunate events that could be caused by stray animals; (g) the demolition of buildings constructed without a building permit.