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owner thereof, or compel by fine or otherwise the owner or proprietor of
any lot or lots to pave or repave the sidewalks or footways; to establish and
regulate a station house or lock-up for temporary confinement of violators
if the laws and ordinances of the city; to suppress vagrancy; and for the
purpose of carrying out the aforegoing powers, and for the preservation
of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the community, and
for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens, and for the
violation of any ordinance, or any section of any ordinance passed under
the provisions of this section, or by authority thereof, they may impose
such reasonable fines, not exceeding one hundred dollars in any case, as
to them appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed,
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not
exceeding ninety days, or until the fine be paid; and all ordinances or
parts of ordinances heretofore passed a ad adopted by the Mayor and Al-
dermen of Frederick now in force and not in conflict with the provisions
of this act, are continued in force until the same are repealed or modified.

1908, ch. 560, sec. 270B. 1918 Code, sec. 321.

297. In addition to the powers conferred upon the Mayor and Alder-
|men of Frederick, they shall have power to regulate by ordinance the
building and maintenance of parapet and fire walls, smoke flues, fire
places, hot-air flues, boilers, smokestacks, chimneys and stovepipes, and to
have any such removed, repaired or reconstructed whenever in the judg-
ment of the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick the same may be danger-
ous to or menace the property wherein such structures are, or any adjacent
or contiguous property, and the expense of alteration, removal, repairing
or reconstructing when done by the corporate authorities shall be a lien
on the property where such removal, repairs or reconstruction is done.
They shall have power to provide for the entry into the examination of
all dwellings, lots, yards, enclosures and buildings, cars and vehicles of
every description, to ascertain their condition for health, cleanliness and
safety, and they shall have power to remove or to require the owner or
owners of any buildings, walls or structures that are or may become dan-
gerous to remove them or put them in a safe condition, at the expense
of the owner or owners. To provide for and regulate the same construc-
tion and inspection and repairing of all public buildings within the city,
and regulate the repairs of any buildings already erected or hereafter to
be erected in. said City.

1908, ch. 560, sec. 270C. 1918 Code, sec. 322.

298. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick may also by ordinance
provide for the construction of opening, enlarging or straightening of any
sewer or drain, public or private property, and shall have power to estab-
lish such a sewerage system as may be necessary for the proper drainage
of said city, which may be most conductive to the health and sanitation of
said city, and shall have power to pass all regulations necessary for the
preservation of said sewers, and shall have authority, by its agent or