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the impounding, keeping, sale and redemption of such animals when found
in violation of the ordinance in such cases provided.

(39)   Markets.—To obtain by lease or rent, own, construct, purchase,
operate and maintain public markets within the town.

(40)  Minor privileges.—To regulate or prevent the use of public
ways, sidewalks and public places for signs, awnings, posts, steps, rail-
ings, entrances, racks, posting handbills and advertisements, and display
of goods, wares and merchandise.

(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 spe-
cifically 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, ob-
noxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health. In this connection the
town may regulate, prohibit, control the location of, or require the removal
from the town of such things as stockyards, slaughterhouses, 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 deter-
mine, 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 programs 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 the 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 structures
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
conveyance; to control, protect and maintain public buildings, grounds
and property of the town.