1904 ARTICLE 7.

restraining or regulation of theatricals or other public amusements within
said city; regulate the construction and maintenance of exits from places
of amusement and all public buildings; regulate the use of sidewalks and
all structures in, under or above the same, and may require the owner or
occupant of premises to keep the sidewalk in front of same and the gutters
thereof free from snow and other obstructions, and prescribe hours for
cleaning same; regulate or prevent the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes,
offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any other offensive or
objectionable material or substances into any street, alley or public place,
or upon any vacant lot in said city; regulate or prevent the use of streets,
sidewalks and public places for signs, signposts, awnings, boxes, posts,
poles, horse troughs, steps, bay windows, railings, entrances, the posting of
handbills and advertisements, and display of goods, wares and merchan-
dise ; regulate the putting in of sewers or drains on or under its streets or
alleys, and the charges for entering and maintaining the same; grant fran-
chises to electric companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies,
street railway companies, water companies, sewer and drain companies,
and any other public or quasi-public service corporation; and the ordinance
or contract granting such franchise shall especially set out the nature, right
and character of same, and no power or right not expressed in the franchise
or grant shall pass thereunder; regulate the erection and use of telephones,
telegraph and electric, light poles and wires within the town; regulate the
keeping of dogs in said city, and provide for the removal or killing worth-
less, annoying or dangerous dogs; prevent the running at large within said
city of horses, cattle, hogs, geese and any other beast, brute or fowl, and
regulate or prevent the keeping of the same within said city; provide for
the protection of all city property and of all public property of public
service companies or corporations; punish and suppress tramps and va-
grants by imposing fines, or both fine and imprisonment, or by hard labor
on the streets of the city; and they may pass such other ordinances as they
may deem advisable, in addition to the powers herein particularly enum-
erated, to provide for the good government and peace, health and welfare
of the city and the inhabitants thereof. They shall have power to enforce
the observance of all ordinances by fines, penalties and forfeitures, not
exceeding one hundred dollars for any one offense, or by imprisonment not
exceeding sixty days in the jail of Carroll County, or by both fine and
imprisonment; and all ordinances relating to disorderly conduct and the
suppression of nuisances may be enforced within the, city limits and beyond
for one-half mile.

1918, ch. 483, sec. 223A.

532. The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster is authorized
to purchase a motor fire truck, fire engine, or any other fire equipment,
it deems advisable for the use of the Volunteer Fire Department of West-
minster, and to provide for the payment thereof by levying a special tax,
not to exceed five cents on the one hundred dollars, on all property within
the corporate limits of Westminster liable to assessment and taxation,