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CHAP. 796
General
powers
granted.
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the right to be heard with reference thereto. (4) To open
and keep open, and free from obstructions, and to condemn
for public use all streets, roads, public squares and reserva-
tions, grade, pave, alter and control the same, and their rights,
powers and duties in relation thereto shall, except as
hereinafter otherwise provided, be the same as is prescribed
by the Code of Public General Laws of this State for open-
ing, altering and closing public roads by the board of
County Commissioners, with the right of appeal to the Cir-
cuit Court for the county; (5) to keep the streets, crossings
and town bridges clean and in repair; (6) to adequately
provide for the maintenance of an efficient police depart-
ment and fire department; (7) to light the streets, public
squares and reservations, and regulate the use of same for
telegraph, telephone and other poles and wires; (8) to com-
pel the owners of property or tenants to keep the sidewalks
clear; (9) to impose a tax or license on, or totally prohibit
the running at large of dogs, fowls, hogs and other animals;
(10) to authorize the use of the streets for railroads ope-
rated by electric, steam or other mechanical motive power,
and to regulate the same as to grade and crossings, paving
between outside tracks and otherwise; to require and compel
all lines of railway in any one street to run on and use one
and the same track, and to keep in repair the bridges and
crossings through which or over which their cars run; (11)
to provide for meeting and defraying the incidental expenses
of the town government, including the cost of the bond pre-
scribed for the clerk and treasurer; (12) to prescribe fines,
penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordi-
nances, including the committal of offenders to the Mont-
gomery county jail until said fines, penalties or forfeitures
are paid; provided, that no such fine, penalty or forfeiture
shall exceed the sum or value of fifty dollars; and no impris-
onment shall exceed the period of thirty days.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the corporation, by and
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Authority to
purchase
or construct
water and
electric
light plants
etc.
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through its Mayor and Council, may purchase or construct
water and electric light plants, or either, as well as a sewer-
age system and other utilities for the general good, and for
such purpose may issue, in such denominations as they may
see fit, bonds not to exceed the total sum of ten thousand
dollars, said bonds to be signed by the Mayor and counter-
signed by the treasurer, interest on same not to exceed the
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