§ 55. Jurisdiction of city beyond limits.

Be it further enacted, that jurisdiction of the mayor and councilmen and the territorial limits of the City of Riverdale are hereby extended for police and sanitary purposes over all the lands that may hereafter be acquired by said city for waterworks, sewer and waterworks or other stations and adjacent lands and the pipes and mains of said waterworks system, and they shall have full power and authority to provide by ordinances for the protection of the city waterworks system and the preservation of the purity of the water and to provide penalties for the violation of said ordinances, and the enforcement of the same. The police officers of said city shall have the authority to arrest any person, or persons, violating said ordinances, wherever found, within or without the limits of said city. The mayor and councilmen of said city shall exercise the jurisdiction and police authority over any authority it may own or control without the limits of said city for sewerage or drains, and for a distance of two hundred yards in any direction from the boundary thereof, and shall have full power and authority to enact such ordinances and rules as they may considered necessary to protect these properties and grounds, as fully and completely as if the same were wholly located in the city limits proper, and the police officers shall have authority to make arrests of persons violating the same, wherever found, within or without the limits of said city.