382                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 258

(14) (Community Services.) To provide, maintain, and operate
community and social services for the preservation and promotion
of the health, recreation, welfare, and enlightenment of the in-
habitants of the town.

(15)    (Cooperative Activities.) To make agreements with other
municipalities, counties, districts, bureaus, commissions, and govern-
mental authorities for the joint performance of or for cooperation
in the performance of any governmental functions.

(16)    (Curfew.) To prohibit the youth of the town from being
in the streets, lanes, alleys, or public places at unreasonable hours
of the night.

(17)    (Dangerous Conditions.) To compel persons about to under-
take dangerous improvements to execute bonds with sufficient sure-
ties conditioned that the owner or contractor will pay all damages
RESULTING FROM SUCH WORK which may be sustained by any
persons or property from such work.

(18)     (Departments.) To create, change, and abolish offices,
departments, or agencies, other than the offices, departments, and
agencies established by this charter; to assign additional functions
or duties to offices, departments, or agencies established by this
charter, but not including the power to discontinue or assign to any
other office, department, or agency any function or duty assigned by
this charter to a particular office, department, or agency.

(19)    (Disorderly Houses.) To suppress bawdy houses, disorderly
houses and houses of ill fame.

(20)    (Dogs.) To regulate the keeping of dogs in the town and
to provide, wherever the county does not license or tax dogs, for
the licensing and taxing of the same; to provide for the disposition
of homeless dogs and dogs on which no license fee or taxes are paid.

(21)     (Elevators.) To require the inspection and licensing of
elevators and to prohibit their use when unsafe or dangerous or
without a license.

(22)    (Explosives.) To regulate or prevent the storage of gun-
powder, oil, or any other explosive or combustible matter; to regu-
late or prevent the use of firearms, fireworks, bonfires, explosives,
or any other similar things which may endanger persons or property.

(23)    (Filth.) To compel the occupant of any premises, building
or outhouse situated in the town, when the same has become filthy
or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the condition; and AFTER REA-
SONABLE NOTICE TO THE OWNERS OR OCCUPANTS to
authorize such work to be done by the proper officers and to assess
the expense thereof against such property, making it collectible as
BY taxes OR AGAINST THE OCCUPANT OR OCCUPANTS.

(24) (Finances.) To levy, assess, and collect ad valorem prop-
erty taxes; to expend municipal funds for any public purpose; to
have general management and control of the finances of the town.

(25) (Fire.) To suppress fires and prevent the dangers thereof
and to establish and maintain a fire department; to contribute funds
to volunteer fire companies serving the town; to inspect buildings
for the purpose of reducing fire hazards, to issue regulatons con-