Section 78. The weight of authority upholds the rule, that municipal corporations have the power to enact ordinances prescribing fire limits, and forbid the erection of wooden buildings therein and may also make other regulations to insure against fire.

The exercise of the power to enact ordinances for the protection of the property of its citizens against fire is not a new power, nor one not connected with the purposes for which such corporations are organized. On the contrary, it is the exercise of a power long possessed by municipal corporations, and closely connected with the purposes for which such corporations are organized.23

21 Knobloch vs. Chicago, Milwaukee, etc., R. Co., 31 Minn., 402; State vs. East Orange, 41 N. J. L., 127; Lake View vs. Tate, 130 III., 247.

22 City & Suburban R. Co. vs. Savannah, 77 Ga., 731; McCoy vs. Philadelphia, etc., R. Co., 5 Del., 599.

A municipal corporation may pass ordinances respecting the storing of quantities of gun-powder, dynamite or other combustible or inflammable material, and, in fact, pass any other reasonable ordinance for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.