2104                                Municipal Charters

any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political party or
political purpose whatever from any person holding a position in the classi-
fied service of the City; no person holding a position in the classified service
of the City shall make any contribution to the campaign fund of any
political party or any candidate for public office or take any part in the
management affairs or political campaign of any political party or candi-
date for public office, further than in the exercise of his right as a citizen
to express his opinion and to cast his vote.

b. Any person who by himself or with others willfully or corruptly
violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment for a term not
exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person
who is convicted under this section shall for a period of five years be
ineligible for appointment to or employment in a position in the City
service, and shall, if he be an officer or employee of the City, immediately
forfeit the office or position he holds.

62.        The City shall have the power to do all things necessary to include
its officers and employees, or any of them, within any retirement system or
pension system under the terms of which they are admissible, and to pay
the employer's share of the cost of any such retirement or pension system
out of the general funds of the City.

63.        The Council is authorized and empowered, to provide for or partici-
pate in hospitalization, life insurance, or other forms of benefit or welfare
programs for its officers and employees and to expend public monies of the
City for such programs.

64.        The term "public ways" as used in this Charter shall include all
streets, avenues, roads, highways, public thoroughfares, lanes and alleys.

65.        The City shall have control of all public ways in the City except
such as may be under the jurisdiction of the Maryland State Roads Com-
mission. The City may do whatever it deems necessary to establish,
operate, and maintain in good condition the public ways of the City.

66.        The Council shall have power:

a.    To regulate the grades, dimensions, materials and manner of
installation of any pavement, bridge, curb, gutter, sidewalk or other im-
provement constructed in a public way.

b.    To establish and name public ways or widen or extend existing
public ways.

c.    To grade and pave public ways and construct, install, repair or
reconstruct therein, bridges, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, drains
and other necessary or desirable facilities.

d.    To require the owners of any property abutting on a sidewalk in
a public way to keep that sidewalk clear of ice, snow and other obstruction.

67.        The Council shall have the power:

a.    To plan, design, construct, acquire, repair, reconstruct, operate
and maintain within and without the City, facilities for the handling of
storm waters and other surface waters.

b.    To regulate the construction, repair, reconstruction, operation and
maintenance by others of such facilities.