The purpose of the municipal police is to ensure public order, safety, security and health. It includes in particular:
1° Anything that concerns the safety and convenience of passage in the streets, quays, squares and public thoroughfares, which includes cleaning, lighting, removing congestion, demolishing or repairing buildings and funeral monuments threatening ruin, the prohibition of displaying anything in windows or other parts of buildings that could cause harm by falling or that of throwing anything that could damage passers-by or cause noxious exhalations, as well as the care to repress deposits, spills, dejections, projections of any matter or object of a nature to harm, in any way whatsoever, the safety or convenience of passage or the cleanliness of the aforementioned thoroughfares ;
2° The task of repressing attacks on public tranquillity such as brawls and arguments accompanied by commotion in the streets, tumult aroused in places of public assembly, gatherings, noise, neighbourhood disturbances, nocturnal gatherings that disturb the rest of the inhabitants and any acts likely to compromise public tranquillity ;
3° Maintaining good order in places where large gatherings of people take place, such as fairs, markets, public festivities and ceremonies, shows, games, cafés, churches and other public places ;
4° Inspecting the accuracy of the sale of foodstuffs sold by weight or measure and the wholesomeness of edibles displayed for sale;
5° The care to prevent, by taking suitable precautions, and to put a stop to, by distributing the necessary aid, accidents and calamitous plagues as well as pollution of any kind, such as fires, floods, breaches of dykes, landslides or rockslides, avalanches or other natural accidents, epidemic or contagious diseases, epizootics, to provide urgently for all assistance and rescue measures and, if necessary, to provoke the intervention of the higher administration ;
6° The care of temporarily taking the necessary measures against mentally disturbed persons whose condition could compromise public morals, the safety of persons or the conservation of property;
7° The care of obviating or remedying untoward events that could be caused by the divagation of evil or ferocious animals.