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directed, and may be allowed the same fees therefor as are allowed for like
service in the State or County.

(F) The Council may also appoint such other officers, including addi-
tional police officers, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
this Charter; the Mayor, in cases of emergency, may appoint special police
officers for such periods, not exceeding thirty days, as he may deem neces-
sary.

(G) The Council may allow any of the officers of the town such com-
pensation for their services as may be deemed reasonable, and may appoint
the same person to perform the duties of more than one office.

(H) The Council and all other officers of the corporation shall, before
they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take an oath that they
will support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Mary-
land, and that they will diligently and faithfully discharge the duties of
their offices without favor, partiality, or prejudice.

(I) The Council may require any of its officers to give bond in such
penalty and with such sureties as they may deem necessary, conditioned
for the faithful performance of their duties. Said bond shall be filed with
the Mayor. When any officer wilfully fails to discharge any duty of his
office, he may, in addition to the remedy on his bond, be fined by the
Mayor, at his discretion, not exceeding ten dollars for any one offense, and
for the payment of such fine his bond shall be responsible. Any officer
may be dismissed by the Council at its discretion.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 7.

960. (A) The Council shall have power to pass all ordinances neces-
sary for the good government of the town; to prevent, remove, and abate.
or cause to be removed or abated, all nuisances or obstructions in or upon
the streets, sidewalks, highways, alleys, drains, sewers or water courses,
or in or upon lot or lots adjacent thereto; to provide for imposing a fine
or fines upon a person or persons causing, creating or maintaining any
such nuisances or obtsructions; to remove, or cause to be removed, houses
or other obstructions or objects that may be dangerous to property, health,
or persons living therein or passing along or over the highways of the
town, or residing in the neighborhood thereof; to make reasonable regu-
lations in regard to buildings to be erected in said town, and to grant build-
ing permits for the same; to establish the grades of the streets, gutters
and sidewalks of said town, fix the width thereof and describe the material
of which they shall be constructed; to cause the sidewalks along the public
streets to be graded, paved, repaved or improved at the cost and expense
of the owners of the abutting property, which costs, in case the work is
done by or by the order of the Mayor and Council, shall be a lien on such
abutting property and recoverable by action of law, or in the manner
provided by law for the collection of delinquent general taxes of the town
or delinquent State and county taxes; to compel, by fines or otherwise, the
owners of properties of any such lot or lots to grade, pave or repave the
sidewalks, or set curbs in front thereof, agreeable to ordinances which.