1482 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 534

(c) Auctioneers. To regulate and license auctioneers
who cry any public sales within the corporate limits of the
city.

(d) Bawdy Houses. To suppress street walker, WALK-
ERS, and to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy
houses or houses of ill fame within the limits of the city.

(e) Buildings. To make reasonable regulations in re-
gard to buildings to be erected in the city, and to grant
building permits for the same; to formulate a building
code and a plumbing code and to appoint a building in-
spector and a plumbing inspector, and to require reason-
able charges for permits and inspections; to regulate and
restrict the height, number of stories, and size of buildings
and other structures, the size of yards, courts, and open
spaces; and the location and use of buildings, structures,
and land for trade, industry, or residence, or tanks, pumps,
or other fixtures; to establish the distance buildings or any
part thereof, fences, or walls shall be erected from inner
curb of street line; to direct in what part of the city
wooden buildings shall not be erected or constructed; to
authorize and require the inspection of all buildings and
structures and to authorize the condemnation thereof in
whole or in part when dangerous or insecure, and to re-
quire that such buildings and structures be made safe or
taken down.

(f) Contracts. To contract with any corporation, firm
or person for the lighting of the city or a part thereof,
either with electricity or gas or by such means as may be
deemed proper; and to contract for water for use at fires
or for other city purposes, provided no contract so entered
into shall be for a longer period than three years.

(g) Codification. To provide for the codification of all
ordinances which have been or may hereafter be passed.

(h) Disorder. To restrain all disorder, disturbances,
annoyances, disorderly conduct, and drunkenness.

(i) Dogs. To regulate the keeping of dogs in the city
and to provide for the licensing and taxing of the same;
to provide for disposition of homeless dogs and dogs on
which no license or taxes are paid.

(j) Exits. To regulate the construction and mainte-
nance of exits from places of amusements and all public
buildings.

(k) Explosives. To prevent and regulate the storage of
gunpowder, oil, or other combustible matter in such quan-