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Session Laws, 1914
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1278 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

regulate or prevent the keeping of the same within said town;
provide for the protection of all town property and of all pub-
lic property of public service companies or corporation; punish
and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine
and imprisonment or by hard labor on the street of the town.
And they shall have power to provide by ordinance for the con-
struction, opening, enlarging or straightening of any sewer or
drain and for regulation of the same; for paving and keeping
in repair all necessary sewers and drains or gutters; to provide
for the purchase and condemnation of private or public prop-
erty, as is now provided in this Act for the condemnation and
opening of streets in said town, for the purpose of paving, build-
ing and maintaining any sewer or drain for surface water in
said town; they are empowered by ordinance to regulate and
prohibit cesspools, earth pits and other means of sewage dis-
posal; to regulate or exclude places where offensive trades or
occupation is conducted or engaged in; to regulate or exclude
pig pens within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances gov-
erning the disposal of garbage or refuse; to regulate or exclude
slaughter houses within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances
to close polluted wells, springs and other sources of water sup-
ply, when such sources shall be certified by the State Board of
Health, after proper analysis, to be polluted; and to pass ordi-
nances for the quarantine and regulation of all communicable
diseases, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or with
the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health; and
its "officers may enter upon and into any private property or
building whenever necessary to execute or enforce any such
ordinance. And they may pass such other ordinances as they
may deem advisable in addition to the powers herein particu-
larly enumerated to provide for the good government and peace,
health and welfare of the town and the inhabitants
therein. They shall have power to enforce the observation of
all ordinances by fine, penalty and forfeiture not exceeding one
hundred dollars for any one offense, or by imprisonment not
exceeding sixty days in the jail of Caroline County or by both
fine and imprisonment. And all ordinances relating to dis-
orderly conduct and suppressing of nuisances may be enforced
within the town limits and beyond for one-half a mile.

SEC. 182-B. And be it further enacted, That the Commission-
ers shall have full power and authority to regulate and provide
for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling
and vending of patents and of goods, wares and merchandise of

 

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