378 LAWS OF MARYJLAND. [Ch. 191]

CHAPTER 191.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with" amendments section 270A
of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Frederick," as
the same was amended by Chapter 51 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its session in the
year 1910.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 270A of Article 11 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County," sub-title
"Frederick," as the same was amended by Chapter 51 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its ses-
sion in the year 1910, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 270A. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick shall
have power to pass all laws and ordinances necessary for the
good government of the city; to prevent, remove and abate all
nuisances or obstructions in or upon the streets, highways,
lanes or alleys, drains or watercourses; to regulate and pre-
scribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire, whether houses
to be built or erected in said city shall be built of wood or other
materials; and to prescribe in what parts and sections thereof
buildings of wood may be erected; and to prescribe penalties
for violating any such ordinance; to" require by ordinance that
every person who wishes or proposes to erect or add to any
building or buildings in said city shall make a written applica-
tion to the City Register, or such other person as shall be
designated by ordinance, for a permit to erect the same; before
beginning work thereon, and in such application to set forth the
location, character, materials, purposes and uses of said build-
ing, and before beginning work on the same obtain a permit
as now or hereafter provided by ordinance, upon payment of
such sum as the ordinance shall provide; and to provide by
ordinance penalties for the erection or beginning to erect or
add to any building without such permit; to provide by ordi-
nance for taking down and removing any building erected of
wood in any part or section of the city in violation of any
such ordinance wherein the erection of buildings of wood are
forbidden, and for taking down and removing any building
erected without a permit first had and obtained as now or
hereafter provided by ordinance; to cause sidewalks along the
public streets and highways of the city to be graded, paved,
repaired or improved, curbs to be set and gutters laid, at the