Vermont § 48 - Enumerated The City Council shall have power:

§ 48. Enumerated The City Council shall have power:

• (1) To establish and regulate a market and to regulate, license, tax, or prohibit the
  selling or peddling of meat, fish, or other provisions on foot or from vehicles about
  the City, except that the City Council shall not have power to license, tax, or prohibit
  farmers selling the produce of their own farm. (2) To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming, to order the destruction of all
  instruments and devices used for that purpose, and to license or tax any such devices
  or instruments the usage of which is now, or may hereafter be, permissible under the
  laws of the State and to license or tax any mechanical or electrical amusement devices
  or the places wherein the same may be located. (3) To regulate, license, tax, or prohibit the exhibition of common showmen, circuses,
  menageries, carnivals, and shows of every kind, and all plays, athletic contests,
  exhibitions, or entertainments for money, including the power to tax admissions to
  the same except such as may be conducted by educational or nonprofit institutions
  or organizations or wholly for charitable purposes; to provide a system of examination,
  approval, and regulation of motion picture films, reels, or stereopticon views or
  slides and of banners, posters, and other like advertising matter used in connection
  therewith; to create and establish a Board of Censors to administer such system within
  the limits of said City and to define and prescribe their duties and powers and to
  regulate, restrict, or prevent attendance of minors at exhibitions of films, reels,
  or stereopticon views. (4) To regulate, license, tax, or prohibit itinerant vendors, peddlers, street musicians,
  transient auctioneers, and itinerant photographers, provided the City Council shall
  not have the power to license, tax, or prohibit farmers selling the produce of their
  own farm. (5) To prevent riots, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblages. (6) To abate and remove nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the storage and accumulation
  on premises within the City of garbage, ashes, rubbish, refuse, and waste materials;
  to tax or license for revenue and regulate or prohibit the collection and removal
  of such materials from such premises and the disposal of the same by private persons
  or agencies; to compel and regulate the removal and disposal of such materials by
  owners, tenants, and occupants of such premises; to require and provide for the collection,
  removal, and disposal of such materials by the City at its expense by contract with
  some private individual or agency or by some City officer, officers, or department
  either existing, or hereafter created and established by the City Council for that
  purpose; to establish, in case the collection, removal, and disposal of such materials
  is done at the expense of the City, service rates to be paid to the City by the owners,
  tenants, or occupants of premises from which said materials are collected and removed
  for services rendered by the City in collecting, removing, and disposing of such materials,
  to compensate the City for the cost and expense of those services