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for the inspection of buildings and for the repair or removal thereof
when unsafe, to regulate the location, size and character of buildings to
be erected, the size and location of open spaces, to make such additional
regulations, which it may deem necessary for the promotion of the health,
safety, public morals, general welfare of the city, and for the suppression
of disease. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick is hereby authorized
and empowered to pass all ordinances necessary or proper to carry out
the powers hereby granted and may impose such fines and penalties for
violations thereof as are authorized in its Charter, by Section 318.

GASOLINE TANKS.

1929, ch. 445.

437. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick is hereby authorized
and empowered to provide by ordinance for the imposition and collection
of a license tax, from all persons, firms and corporations, engaged in sell-
ing motor fuel or motor lubricants from tanks placed and maintained
under or on the sidewalks of the city, so long as any such tanks are per-
mitted to be used for that purpose; provided, however, that no such license
tax shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars per year for each pump
used in selling motor fuel and a like amount for each tank used in selling
motor lubricants. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to pass all ordinances necessary to carry out
the provisions of this Act, and to grant permits or licenses for the erection
of all such tanks hereafter constructed and for the maintenance of all
such tanks heretofore erected; provided, however, that the Mayor and
Aldermen of Frederick may provide by ordinance for the removal of all
such tanks and pumps from the sidewalks of the city, whenever in its
judgment it shall think proper to remove the same.

PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

1929, ch. 443, sec. 1.

438. The term "streets" includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads,
lanes, alleys, viaducts and other ways. "Subdivision" means the division
of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, plats, sites or other
divisions of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or
of building development. It includes re-sub-division and, when appro-
priate to the context, relates to the process of sub-dividing or to the land
or territory sub-divided.

1929, ch. 443, sec. 2.

439. The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick is hereby authorized
and empowered to make, adopt, amend, extend, add to, or carry out a
municipal plan as provided in this Act and create by ordinance a plan-
ning commission with the powers and duties herein set forth.