384 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 258
(35) (Licenses.) Subject to any restrictions imposed by the
public general laws of the State, to license and regulate all persons
beginning or conducting transient or permanent business in the town
for the sale of any goods, wares, merchandise, OR services, or advice;
to license and regulate any business, occupation, trade, calling, or
profession or place of amusement or business; to establish and collect
fees and charges for all licenses and permits issued under the au-
thority of this charter.
(36) (Liens.) To provide that any valid charges, taxes or as-
sessments made against any real property within the town shall be
liens upon such property, to be collected as municipal taxes are
collected.
(37) (Lights.) To provide for the lighting of the town.
(38) (Livestock.) To regulate and prohibit the running at large
of cattle, horses, swine, fowl, sheep, goats, dogs or other animals; to
authorize the impounding, keeping, sale and redemption of such
animals when found in violation of the ordinance in such cases
provided.
(39) (Markets.) To obtain by lease or rent, own, construct,
purchase, operate, and maintain public markets within the town.
(40) (Minor Privileges.) To regulate or prevent the use of
public ways, sidewalks, and public places for signs, awnings, posts,
steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting handbills and advertise-
ments, and display of goods, wares, and merchandise.
(41) (Noise.) To regulate or prohibit the UNREASONABLE
ringing of bells, crying of goods or sounding of whistles and horns.
(42) (Nuisances.) To prevent or abate by appropriate ordinance
all nuisances in the town which are so defined at common law, by
this charter, or by the laws of the State of Maryland, whether the
same be herein specifically named or not; to regulate, to prohibit, to
control the location of, or to require the removal from the town of all
trading in, handling of, or manufacture of any commodity which is or
may become offensive, obnoxious, or injurious to the public com-
fort or health. In this connection the town may regulate, prohibit,
control the location of, or require the removal from the town of
such things as stockyards, slaughterhouses, cattle or hog pens,
tanneries, and renderies. This listing is by way of enumeration, not
limitation.
(43) (Obstructions.) To remove all nuisances and obstructions
from the streets, lanes and alleys and from any lots adjoining there-
to, or any other places within the limits of the town.
(44) (Parking facilities.) To license and regulate and to es-
tablish, obtain by purchase, by lease or by rent, own, construct,
operate, and maintain parking lots and other facilities for off street
parking.
(45) (Parking Meters.) To install parking meters on the streets
and public places of the town in such places as they shall by ordinance
determine, and by ordinance to prescribe rates and provisions for
the use thereof, except that the installation of parking meters on
any street or road maintained by the State Roads Commission of
Maryland must first be approved by the Commission.
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