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(7) FRUITS, MEATS, VEGETABLES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 646A. 1890, ch. 100.

To license and regulate the sale of fresh fruits, meats, vegetables and
all other perishable articles in the City of Baltimore.

(8) HARBOR, DOCKS AND WHARVES.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, secs. 263, 264, 265, 266. 271, 272, 793, 794, 796 944, 945.

1880, ch. 418. 1884, ch. 230. 1884, ch. 309. 1888, ch. 261. P. L. L. (1888),

Art. 4, secs. 343, 344, 346-350, 355-357, 367-368. 1908, ch. 148.

1912, ch. 32. 1914, ch. 144.

To provide for the preservation of the navigation of the Patapsco River
and tributaries, including the establishment of lines throughout the entire
length of said Patapsco River and tributaries, beyond which lines no
piers, bulkheads, wharf, pilings, structures, obstructions or extensions
of any character may be built, erected, constructed, made or extended;
to provide for improving, cleaning and deepening said river and tribu-
taries, and the removal therefrom of anything detrimental to navigation
or health; to provide for and regulate the stationing, anchoring and mov-
ing of vessels or other water craft, and to prevent any material, refuse
or other matter of any kind from being thrown into, deposited in or placed
where the same may fall, or be washed, into said river or tributaries; to
make surveys or charts of the Patapsco River and tributaries, and to
ascertain the depth and course of the channels of the same; and when
necessary in its judgment, to affix buoys or water marks for facilitating
and rendering more safe the navigation thereof; to erect and maintain
and to authorize the erection and maintenance of, and to make such regu-
lations as it may deem proper, respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers and
piling, and the keeping of the same in repair, so as to prevent injury to
navigation or health; to regulate the use of public wharves, docks, piers,
bulkheads or pilings, and to lease or rent the same, and to impose and
collect dockage from all vessels and water craft lying at or using the same,
and to collect wharfage and other charges upon all goods, wares, mer-
chandise or other articles landed at, shipped from, stored on or passed
over the same; to provide for the appointment of such officers and em-
ployees as may be necessary to execute the aforegoing powers and to
impose fines or penalties for a breach of any ordinance passed in con-
formity herewith, said fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) for
any one offense. Provided, however, that except in regard to docks or
wharves owned by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, nothing
contained in this sub-division of this Charter shall be construed to impose
any duty upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to any person
or corporation using said river, or any of its tributaries, in regard to the
safety thereof, or to render the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
liable for any loss of life, or injury or damage to person or property, by
reason of any obstruction in, or unsafe condition of, any part of said river,
or of said tributaries or branches, or either of them. Nothing contained