Church Hill                                     2289

(44)   (Parking Facilities.) To license and regulate and to establish,
obtain by purchase, by lease or by rent, own, construct, operate, and
maintain parking lots and other facilities for off street parking.

(45)   (Parks and Recreation.) To establish and maintain public
parks, gardens, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities and pro-
grams to promote the health, welfare, and enjoyment of the inhabitants
of the Town.

(46)   (Police Force.) To establish, operate, and maintain a police
force. All Town policemen shall, within the municipality have the powers
and authority of Sheriffs in this State.

(47)   (Police Powers.) To prohibit, suppress, and punish within
the Town all vice, gambling, and games of chance; prostitution and
solicitation thereof and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses of ill
fame; all tramps and vagrants; all disorder, disturbances, annoyances,
disorderly conduct, obscenity, public profanity, and drunkenness.

(48)     (Property.) To acquire by convenance, purchase or gift, real
or leasable property for any public purposes; to erect buildings and
structures thereon for the benefit of the Town and its inhabitants; and
to convey any real or leasable 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.

(49)   (Quarantine.) To establish quarantine regulations in the in-
terests of the public health.

(50)   (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.

(51)   (Sidewalks.) To regulate the use of sidewalks and all struc-
tures in, under or above the same; 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.

(52)  (Sweepings.) To regulate or prevent the throwing or deposit-
ing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids,
or other unwholesome materials into any public way or onto any public
or private property in the Town.

(53)  (Taxicabs.) To license, tax and regulate public hackmen, taxi-
cab men, draymen, drivers, cabmen, porters and expressmen, and all other
persons pursuing like occupations.

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

(55)   (Voting Machines.) To purchase, lease, borrow, install, and
maintain voting machines for use in Town elections.

(56)   (Zoning.) To exercise the powers as to planning and zoning,
conferred upon municipal corporations generally in Article 66B of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, subject, however, to the limitations and
provisions of said Article.