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Session Laws, 1945
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1824 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1034

tions, as are, or may be granted to or imposed upon by the
Board of County Commissioners of Prince George's County.

(E) To enforce within the corporate limits, police, health,
sanitary, fire, traffic, parking and other similar regulations not
in conflict with the laws of the State of Maryland.

(F) To issue licenses and collect fees thereby subject to any
restrictions imposed by the law of the State of Maryland.

(G) To enact ordinances and make regulations not to con-
flict; with the laws of the State of Maryland, and to impose
fines and imprisonment in the county jail, or both, for the
violations of such ordinances or regulations. No fine shall
exceed One Hundred ($100. 00) Dollars, nor shall any im-
prisonment exceed Ninety (90) days for any single offense.

(H) To acquire property, real or personal, within the
boundaries of the town for any public purpose, in fee simple,
lease or leasehold interest or estate or any other interest or
estate by purchase, gift, bequest, devise, lease, or otherwise;
and to own, manage, or control and to sell, exchange, transfer,
mortgage, or dispose of any such real or personal property or
any interest therein as the interest of the town may require.

(I) To have and to execute any and all powers that are
now given to a municipality, except the City of Baltimore, or
that may be given to them by the General Laws of the State of
Maryland, or that are or may be given to municipalities in
Prince George's County by the local laws of the State of Mary-
land.

(J) The Mayor and Common Council shall have the power
to impose a license upon all circuses, menageries, theatrical
exhibitions, and other amusements for gain, exhibiting within
the limits of the town, not exceeding fifty dollars for each
show or exhibition provided that this section shall not apply
to the entertainments given for religious, educational or
charitable purposes, nor the entertainments given by the resi-
dents of the town not for gain. The Mayor and Common Coun-
cil shall also have power to impose a license upon all busi-
nesses operating within the limits of the town of Capitol
Heights.

(K) And they shall by ordinance provide for the codifica-
tion of all ordinances which have been or may be passed, and
for the printing of such codification therefor, and the printed
ordinances so issued by the authority of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council may be read in evidence from the printed codifi-
cation.

(L) The Mayor and Common Council of Capitol Heights
may purchase and hold any property, real, personal or mixed,

 

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