BALTIMORE CITY. 835

GENERAL POWERS.

6. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have full power

and authority:

Baltimore City v. Gorter, 93 Md. 1.

The legislature possesses wide powers of control and legislation over the City of
Baltimore, but its power is not absolute and unlimited.

Thrift v. Laird, 125 Md. 55.

(1) BUILDINGS.

P. L, L. (1860), Art. 4, secs. 29, 823, 864, 943. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, secs. 121-124.
1892, ch. 10. 1904, ch. 616. 1906, ch. 797. 1910, ch. 704,

To direct in what part of Baltimore City buildings of wood shall not
be erected; to regulate and establish the size of bricks that are to be used
in the houses to be built in the City of Baltimore; to provide for the entry
into and examination of all dwellings, lots, yards, inclosures and build-
ings, cars, boats and vehicles of every description; to ascertain their con-
dition for health, cleanliness and safety; to regulate the building and
maintenance of party walls, partition fences, parapet and fire walls, smoke
flues, fire places, hot-air flues, boilers, kettles, smokestacks and stove pipes.
To provide for and regulate the safe construction, inspection and repairs
of all private and public buildings within the city; and to compel the
consumption of smoke and make such regulations as may be deemed
necessary to prevent the same from becoming deleterious or offensive to
health. To take down and remove, or make safe and secure, any and all
buildings, walls, structures or superstructures, at the expense of the owners
thereof, that are or may become dangerous, or to require their owners or
agents to take down and remove them, or put them in a safe and sound
condition at their own expense; to make any and all costs and expenses
incurred in, about the taking down and removal, of making safe and
secure of all buildings, walls, structures or superstructures, as aforesaid,
a lien upon the interests of the owners in the land or improvements, or
both, and to provide for the enforcement of such liens by sale of the
property, whether real or personal; to regulate, restrain or prohibit the
erection of wooden or frame buildings within the present limits of the
city, and to remove the same at the owner's expense when erected or
suffered to remain contrary to law or ordinance; to regulate the height,
construction and inspection of all new buildings hereafter erected in said
city; and the alteration and repairs of any buildings already erected, or
hereafter to be erected in said city; and the ordinance regulating the
construction and inspection of buildings in said city passed by the City
Council and approved by the Mayor October 23, 1891, is hereby author-
ized and legalized in the same manner as if full authority had been given
by the General Assembly for the passage of the same prior to its enact-
ment; to regulate the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect any
steps, porticos, bay windows, bow windows, show windows, awnings, signs,
columns, piers or other projections or structural ornaments of any char-
acter for the houses fronting on any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said