1998                              MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

To prevent or regulate the use or sale of firearms, fireworks, bonfires
or other things or practices tending to endanger persons or property;

To regulate and prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, swine,
fowls, sheep, goats, dogs or other animals, and to authorize the impounding,
keeping, sale or redemption of such animals when found in violation of
any ordinance in such case provided;

To prevent the deposit of any unwholesome substance either on pri-
vate or public property, to compel its removal to designated points, and to
require slops, garbage, ashes and other waste materials to be removed to
designated points, or to require the occupants of premises to place them
conveniently for the removal and to remove the same at the expense of said
Town or collect therefor from others for the cost thereof;

To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch resin,
coal oil, turpentine, gasoline or gas or any product thereof, or any other
explosives or combustible materials which may seem to be dangerous
within the corporate limits;

To pass all ordinances or orders for the protection, maintenance and
preservation of the water supply of said Town and the prevention of the
pollution thereof;

To regulate the selling weighing and measuring of coal, hay, wood,
coke and other articles sold by weight or measure, and to establish weight
scales and make charges for weighing thereof;

To prohibit the erection of buildings in the Town of Westernport
without a license first obtained therefor. To authorize the inspection of
buildings and structures erected or to be erected or in process of erection
and to authorize the license therefor to be revoked and the condemnation
thereof in whole or in part when dangerous or insecure in the opinion of
the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport or such party as they may
appoint to inspect the same;

To suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy houses, disorderly houses
and houses of ill fame and to prohibit the youth of said Town from being
on its streets, lanes and alleys at unreasonable hours of the night;

To regulate the use of sidewalks, and all structures in, under, or
above the same, and to require the owner or occupant of premises to keep
the sidewalks in front of the same free from snow and other obstructions
and prescribe hours for cleaning the same;

To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings,
dust, ashes, dirt, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any material
into any street, alley or public place of said Town of Westernport;

To regulate traffic within the limits of Westernport, including trains
at grade crossings and prohibit interference with or injury to traffic signs
or other Town property;

To provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking,
peddling and vending of wares and merchandise of every description upon
the streets and highways of said town and to impose and demand a license
from all players or showmen exhibiting within said Town, and to provide
for licensing theatres and to regulate and to res