457. The council may make by-laws:(1) To establish, erect, maintain, enlarge, change or do away with public markets, or to permit their establishment under license; to establish, change, enlarge, reduce, or abolish market-places, and to cause the ground wholly or partly occupied by a market or market-place to be used for any purpose determined by the council;
(2) To regulate the leasing of stalls and other places in the public markets or on the public market-places; to lease and concede the use of private stalls on such conditions and at such prices as may be determined in the by-law;
(3) To regulate the sale and exposing for sale on the markets, or on the public market-places, of any kind of articles except food, and to prohibit the sale of certain articles in particular;
(4) To regulate the manner of placing vehicles in which food is exposed for sale in the markets, or on the public market-places; to impose a duty on such vehicles, and establish the mode in which such duty shall be collected;
(5) To require that provisions and provender, usually bought and sold in public markets, and brought to the territory of the municipality for sale, shall be conveyed to the public markets and there exposed for sale; and that no such provisions or provender shall be offered, or exposed for sale, or be sold or purchased elsewhere in the territory of the municipality than on the public markets or market-places; but the council may empower any person to sell, offer or expose for sale, beyond the limits of such markets, meat, vegetables and provisions usually bought and sold on public markets, by granting him a license for that purpose, upon payment of such sum and upon such conditions, as shall be fixed by by-law;
(6) To impose taxes or licenses upon all persons selling on the public markets or market-places;
(7) To establish and maintain public scales and to collect the revenue therefor;
(8) To determine and define the duties and powers of all persons employed in superintending public scales or markets in the territory of the municipality, and to confer upon such officers or employees, at the time of an inspection, the power to seize articles and produce, except food, in case of fraud as to measure, weight or quality; and to determine the manner in which such seized articles shall be disposed of;
(9) To determine all things connected with the government of public markets.