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(37)    To remove all nuisances and obstructions from the streets,
lanes and alleys and from any lots adjoining thereto, or any other places
within the limits of the City.

(38)    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.

(39)    To install parking meters on the streets and public places of the
City and to prescribe rates and provisions for the use thereof.

(40)    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 City.

(41)    To establish, operate and maintain a police force which shall
have, within the City all the power and authority of constables in this
State. Such police force shall also be authorized to act outside the City to the
extent necessary to transport prisoners to or from trial or to or from places
of incarceration.

(42)    To prohibit, within the City, 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, dis-
turbances, annoyances, disorderly conduct, obscenity, public profanity, and
drunkenness.

(43)    To regulate or prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings,
dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids, or other un-
wholesome material into any public way or onto any public or private
property in the City.

(44)    To license, tax and regulate public hackmen, taxicab men, dray-
men, drivers, cabmen, porters and expressmen, and all other persons pur-
suing like occupations.

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

(46)    To purchase, lease, borrow, install, and maintain voting ma-
chines for use in City elections.

(47)    In addition to all powers granted to the Council by this Charter
or any other provision of law, the Council may exercise any power or
perform any function which is not now or hereafter denied to it by the
Constitution of Maryland, this Charter, or any applicable law passed by
the General Assembly of Maryland. The enumeration of powers and func-
tions in this Charter or elsewhere shall not be deemed to limit the power
and authority granted by this paragraph 19 (47).

20. To insure the observance of the ordinances of the City, the Council
shall have the power to provide that violation thereof shall be a misde-
meanor and shall have the power to affix thereto penalties of a fine not
exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.) or imprisonment for not exceeding
ninety (90) days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Any person subjected
to any fine, forfeiture, or penalty by virtue of any ordinance or regulation
passed under the authority of this Charter shall have the right of appeal
within thirty (30) days to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. The
Council may provide that, where the violation is of a continuing nature
and is persisted in, a conviction for one violation shall not be a bar to a
conviction for a continuation of the offense subsequent to the first or any
succeeding conviction.