840 ARTICLE 4.

(5) FIRE.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, secs. 29, 30, 236-238, 249. 1878, ch. 120. 1884, ch. 312.

1886, ch. 463. 1888, ch. 393. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, secs. 312-315C,

324, 328. 1894, ch. 190. 1922, ch. 283.

To establish and regulate fire wards and fire companies, and all matters
pertaining to the prevention and extinguishment of fires. To appropriate
a sum of money annually for the relief of disabled and superannuated
firemen, for the relief of the widows and children of firemen who have
been killed in the discharge of duty, and to provide by general ordinance
for giving pensions to employees of the Baltimore Fire Department who
may become unable to perform further service, by reason of age, or other
physical or mental disabilities. To retire from office in the Fire Depart-
ment any permanent or called member thereof who has become perma-
nently disabled while in the actual performance of duty, or has performed
faithful service in the department for a period of not less than twenty
consecutive years, and placing the member so retired upon a pension roll,
the amount of annual pension to each pensioner to be an amount equal
to one-half the yearly amount received by members of said department
in active service occupying the same position as, or positions most nearly
similar to that occupied by the said pensioner at the time of his retire-
ment, per annum, payable in monthly installments. To appropriate annu-
ally such sums of money as shall be sufficient to pension all such
members of the Fire Department as shall be upon the pension roll. To
regulate the evil and pernicious practice of firing or discharging
crackers within the limits of said city, either by prohibiting sale of the
crackers or otherwise. To erect and provide magazines for the storage
of gunpowder brought to the city and to compel the storage of same therein,
and to regulate the price of said storage. To regulate the storage of
naval stores and other combustible matter in such quantities or in such
places in the city as may be deemed dangerous. To provide for the
inspection of oils or fluids made from petroleum or its products, to be
used for illuminating purposes, offered for sale in the City of Baltimore,
and for the ' appointment of inspectors for that purpose, ant to impose
such fines and penalties as it may deem necessary and proper in the
premises. To fix by ordinance the standard or flashing point of oils, or
fluids made from petroleum or its products, used for illuminating pur-
poses, and offered for sale in said city, and to provide for the inspection
of the same, and for the appointment of inspectors for that purpose.

Where a municipality furnishes water gratuitously to be used in extinguishing
fires it acts in a governmental capacity and is not liable for negligence in connection
with its water works.

Wallace v. Baltimore, 123 Md. 638.

(6) FISH.

1898, ch. 123.

To regulate the sale or disposition of fish within the limits of the City
of Baltimore; to impose fines or penalties for the violation of any regu-
lation it may establish.