1438 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 662

(x) Parking Lots. To license, regulate, establish, oper-
ate, own, and maintain parking lots.

(y) Parks and Recreation. To establish and maintain
public parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, and other rec-
reational facilities for the health, welfare, and enjoyment
of the inhabitants of the city.

(z) Police Force. To establish, operate, and maintain a
police force.

(a. l) Police Powers. To prohibit, suppress, and punish
within the city all vice, gambling, and games of chance,
street walkers and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses
of ill fame; all tramps and vagrants; all disorder, disturb-
ances, annoyances, disorderly conduct, and drunkenness,
and to enforce all lawful ordinances of said city.

(b. l) Public Property. To acquire property, real or per-
sonal, within or without the boundaries of the city for any
public purpose by purchase, gifts, bequest, devise, OR lease;
condemnation, or otherwise; to construct and maintain all
buildings necessary for the operation of the city govern-
ment; to control and protect the public grounds and prop-
erty of the city.

(c. l) Public Utilities. To establish, own, purchase, con-
trol, operate, maintain, manage, or regulate any utilities,
including a water supply system and a sewage disposal
system.

(d. l) Regulations. To adopt and enforce within the cor-
porate limits police, health, sanitary, fire, building, plumb-
ing, traffic, speed, parking, and other similar regulations
not in conflict with the laws of the State of Maryland.

(e. l) Sweepings. To regulate and prevent the throwing
of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills,
dirty liquids, or other unwholesome materials into any
public way or onto any public or private property in the
city.

(f. l) Swimming Pool. To own, operate, maintain, and
repair a swimming pool.

(g. 1) Vehicles. To regulate, license, and tax taxicabs and
any other vehicles used in the city for transporting goods or
persons for hire.

(h. 1) Weights and Measures. To inspect and regulate all
weights and measures used within the city.