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(22)  (Explosives.) To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder,
oil, or any other explosive or combustible matter; to regulate 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 un-
wholesome, to abate or cleanse the condition and after reasonable 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 collectable by taxes or against the occupant or occupants.

(24)   (Finances.) To levy, assess, and collect ad valorem property
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 volun-
teer fire companies serving the Town; to inspect buildings for the purpose
of reducing fire hazards, to issue regulations concerning fire hazards, and
to forbid and prohibit the use of fire-hazardous buildings and structures
permanently or until the conditions of Town fire hazard regulations are
met; to install and maintain fire plugs where and as necessary, and to
regulate their use; and to take all other measures necessary to control and
prevent fires in the Town.

(26)   (Food.) To inspect and to require the condemnation of, if
unwholesome, and to regulate the sale of, any food products.

(27)     (Franchises.) To grant and regulate franchises to water com-
panies, electric light companies, gas companies, telegraph and telephone
companies, transit companies, taxicab companies, and any others which
my be deemed advantageous and beneficial to the Town, subject, however,
to the limitations and provisions of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland. No franchise shall be granted for a longer period than fifty
years.

(28)  (Gambling.) To restrain and prohibit gambling.

(29)   (Garbage.) To prevent the deposit of any unwholesome sub-
stance either on private or public property, and to compel its removal to
designated points, to require slops, garbage, ashes and other waste or other
unwholesome materials to be removed to designated points, or to require
the occupants of the premises to place them conveniently for removal.

(30)     (Grants-in-Aid.) To accept gifts and grants of Federal or of
State funds from the Federal or State governments of any agency thereof,
and to expend the same for any lawful public purpose, agreeably to the
conditions under which the gifts or grants were made.

(31)   (Hawkers.) To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit
hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers, pawnbrokers and all other per-
sons selling any articles on the streets of the Town, and to revoke such
licenses for cause.

(32)  (Health.) To protect and preserve the health of the Town and
its inhabitants to appoint a public health officer, and to define and regulate
his powers and duties to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases
into the Town; to establish quarantine regulations, and to authorize the
removal and confinement of persons having contagious or infectious dis-
eases; to prevent and remove all nuisances; to inspect, regulate, and abate