990                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 572

[(45)] (43) Parking meters. To install parking meters on the
streets and public places of the town in such places as [they shall] by
ordinance they determine, and by ordinance to prescribe rates and
provisions for the use thereof; [except] but [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.

[(46)] (44) Parks and recreation. To establish and maintain
public parks, gardens, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities
and programs to promote the health, welfare, and enjoyment of the
inhabitants of the town.

[(47)] (45) Police force. To establish, operate, and maintain a
police force. All town policemen [shall], within the municipality[,]
shall have the powers and authority of constables in this State.

[(48)] (46) Police powers. To prohibit, suppress, and punish
within the town all vice, gambling, and games of chance; prostitution
and solicitation therefor and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses
of ill fame; all tramps and vagrants; all disorder, disturbances, an-
noyances, disorderly conduct, obscenity, public profanity, and drunk-
enness.

[(49)] (47) Property. To acquire by conveyance, purchase, or
gift, real or leasable property for any public purposes; to erect build-
ings and structures thereon for the benefit of the town and its inhabi-
tants; and to convey any real or leasehold property when no longer
needed for the public use, after having given at least twenty days'
public notice of the proposed conveyance; to control, protect, and
maintain public buildings, grounds, and property of the town.

[(50)] (48) Quarantine. To establish quarantine regulations
in the interests of the public health.

[(51)] (49) Regulations. To adopt by ordinance and enforce
within the corporate limits police, health, sanitary, fire, building,
plumbing, traffic, speed, parking, and other similar regulations not in
conflict with the laws of the State of Maryland or with this charter.

[(52)] (50) Sidewalks. To regulate the use of sidewalks and
all structures in, under, or above [the same] them; to require the
owner or occupant of premises to keep the sidewalks in front thereof
free from snow or other obstructions; to prescribe hours for cleaning
sidewalks.

[(53)] (51) Sweepings. To regulate or prevent the throwing
or depositing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, hand-
bills, dirty liquids, or other unwholesome materials into any public
way or [onto] on any public or private property in the town.

[(54)] (52) Taxicabs. To license, tax, and regulate public
hackmen, taxicab men, draymen, drivers, cabmen, porters and ex-
pressmen, and all other persons pursuing like occupations.

[(55)] (53) Vehicles. To regulate and license wagons and
other vehicles not subject to the licensing powers of the State of
Maryland.

[(56)] (54) Voting machines. To purchase, lease, borrow,
install, and maintain voting machines for use in town elections.