2142                               Municipal Charters

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 or 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 persons
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 regu-
late his powers and duties; to prevent the introduction of contagious dis-
eases into the Town; 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 unsani-
tary conditions or conditions detrimental to health, provided, that nothing
herein shall be construed to affect in any manner any of the powers and
duties of the State Board of Health, the County Board of Health, or any
public general or local law relating to the subject of health.

(33)     (House Numbers): 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 Town at the owner's
expense, such expense to constitute a lien upon the property collectible as
tax monies.

(34)     (Jail): To establish and regulate a station house or lock-up
for temporary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances of the
Town or to use the County Jail for such purpose.

(35)     (Licenses): Subject to any restriction imposed by the public
general laws of the State, to license and regulate all persons beginning or
conducting transient or permanent business in the Town 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 all licenses and permits issued
under the authority of this Charter.

(36)     (Liens): To provide that any valid charges, taxes or assess-
ments made against any real property within the Town shall be liens upon
such property, to be collected as municipal taxes are collected.

(37)     (Lights): To provide for the lighting of the Town.

(38)     (Livestock): To regulate and prohibit the running at large of
cattle, horses, 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.

(39)     (Markets): To obtain by lease or rent, own, construct, pur-
chase, operate, and maintain public markets within the Town.

(40)     (Minor Privileges): 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.