2092                                Municipal Charters

(25)    To license, tax, regulate, or prohibit pawnbrokers, fortune
tellers, hawkers, itinerant dealers and peddlers, and all other persons
selling any article on the streets of the City.

(26)    To protect and preserve the health of the City and its inhabi-
tants; to appoint a public health officer, and to define and regulate his
powers and duties; to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into
the City; to establish quarantine regulations, and to authorize the removal
and confinement of persons having contagious or infectious diseases; to
prevent and remove all nuisances; to inspect, regulate, and abate any
buildings, structures, or places which cause or may cause unsanitary condi-
tions or conditions detrimental to health.

(27)    To regulate the numbering of houses and lots and to compel
owners to renumber the same or in default thereof to authorize and require
the same to be done by the City.

(28)    To establish and regulate a station house or lock-up for tempor-
ary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances of the City or to
use the County jail for such purpose.

(29)    To license and regulate all persons beginning to conduct transi-
ent or permanent business in the City for the sale of any goods, wares,
merchandise, or services; to license and regulate any business, occupation,
trade, calling, or place of amusement or business; to establish and collect
fees and charges for licenses and permits issued under the authority of this
Charter.

(30)    To provide that any valid charges, taxes or assessments made
against any real property within the City shall be liens upon such property,
to be collected as municipal taxes are.

(31)    To provide for the lighting of the City.

(32)    To regulate and prohibit the running at large of cattle, 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.

(33)    To obtain by lease, own, construct, purchase, operate, and
maintain public markets within the City.

(34) To regulate or prevent the use of public ways, sidewalks, and
public places for signs, awnings, posts, steps, railings, entrances, racks,
posting handbills and advertisements, and display of goods, wares and
merchandise.

(35)    To regulate or prohibit unreasonable ringing of bells, crying of
goods, sounding of whistles and horns, or other noises.

(36)    To prevent or abate by appropriate ordinance all nuisances in
the City 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, prohibit, control the location of, or require the removal
from the City and all trading in, handling of, or manufacture of any com-
modity which is or may become offensive, obnoxious, or injurious to the
public comfort or health; to regulate, prohibit, control the location of, or
require the removal from the City of such things as stockyards, slaughter-
houses, cattle or hog pens, tanneries, and renderies; this listing is by way of
enumeration, not limitation.