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(41)     (Noise): To regulate or prohibit unreasonable ringing of bells,
crying of goods or sounding of whistles and horns.

(42)     (Nuisances): To prevent or abate by appropriate ordinance
all nuisances in the Town which are so defined at common law, by this
Charter, or by the laws of the State of Maryland, whether the same be
herein specifically named or not; to regulate, to prohibit, to control the
location of, or to require the removal from the Town of all trading in,
handling of, or manufacture of any commodity which is or may become
offensive, obnoxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health. In this
connection the Town may regulate, prohibit, control the location of, or re-
quire the removal from the Town of such things as stockyards, slaughter-
houses, cattle or hog pens, tanneries, and renderies. This listing is by way
of enumeration, not limitation.

(43)     (Obstructions): To remove all nuisances and obstructions
from the streets, lanes and alleys and from any lots adjoining thereto, or
any other places within the limits of the Town.

(44)     (Parking Facilities): To license and regulate and to establish,
obtain by purchase, by lease or by rent, own, construct, operate, and main-
tain parking lots and other facilities for off street parking.

(45)     (Parking Meters): To install parking meters on the streets
and public places of the Town in such places as they shall by ordinance
determine, and by ordinance to prescribe rates and provisions for the use
thereof, except that the installation of parking meters on any street or
road maintained by the State Roads Commission of Maryland must first
be approved by the Commission.

(46)     (Parks and Recreation): To establish and maintain public
parks, gardens, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities and pro-
grams to promote the health, welfare, and enjoyment of the inhabitants of
the Town.

(47)     (Police Force): To establish, operate, and maintain a police
force. All Town policemen shall, within the municipality, have the powers
and authority of constables in this State.

(48)     (Police Powers): To prohibit, suppress, and punish within the
Town all vice, gambling and games of chance; prostitution and solicitation
therefor and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses of ill fame; all
tramps and vagrants; all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, disorderly
conduct, obscenity, public profanity, and drunkenness.

(49)     (Property): To acquire by conveyance, purchase or gift, real
or leasable property for any public purposes; to erect buildings and struc-
tures thereon for the benefit of the Town and its inhabitants; and to convey
any real or leasehold property when no longer needed for the public use,
after having given at least twenty days public notice of the proposed con-
veyance; to control, protect and maintain public buildings, grounds and
property of the Town.

(50)     (Quarantine): To establish quarantine regulations in the
interests of the public health.

(51)     (Regulations): To adopt by ordinance and enforce within
the corporate limits police, health, sanitary, fire, building, plumbing, traf-
fic, speed, parking, and other similar regulations not in conflict with the
laws of the State of Maryland or with this Charter.