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Hundred Dollars ($100.00) in any one case as may appear to them right,
and they may recover said fines or penalty by action of debt, and in addi-
tion thereto, any offender in default of time may be imprisoned until the
fine [be] is paid [not exceeding thirty (30) days, imprisonment in all
cases to be in the Town lockup if one be provided, or] for a period not
exceeding thirty days in the County Jail [,]. [and the] The Sheriff
or Chief of Police of Prince George's County shall receive and confine any
person so committed as now provided by law. All such [Town] City cases
shall be tried in the [Trial Magistrate's] People's Court for Prince
George's County, [as now] or as otherwise provided by law.

New Carrollton Charter Amendment No. 71-4

An amendment to the Charter of the City of New Carrollton, Prince
George's County, Maryland, to create a new Section 11, entitled "Specific
Powers," to include the provision of the former Sections 9, entitled
"Police," (with the addition of a provision allowing the Council to author-
ize the Mayor to contract with the County for additional police help),
10, entitled "Health," lib, entitled "Community Antenna Television,"
13 entitled "Public Streets," 20, entitled "Garbage and Trash," 21, en-
titled "Sewerage System," 22, entitled "Parks and Recreation"; and
to add a Saving Clause, designed to reserve non-enumerated powers for
the City.

SECTION 11. SPECIFIC POWERS.
[SECTION 13. PUBLIC STREETS.]

a.   Public Streets. Those parts of the several [County roads] public
roadways within the corporate limits of the [said] City [of New Car-
rollton], and all roads, streets, avenues, [or alleys] alleys, or ways which
are now or shall hereafter be shown on any legally recorded part or addi-
tion to the legally platted part of [said Town] the City as public [high-
ways,] roadways, and accepted by the [Mayor and] Council as such,
are hereby made and declared to be public streets [, avenues, and alleys]
of [said Town.] the City. The [Mayor and] Council shall have authority
to lay out, open, extend, and make new streets or alleys, and to alter,
straighten, widen, grade, improve, or close, in whole or in part, any
existing street or alley, as the public interest may require [.], and to
maintain such public streets, including curbs and gutters, driveway en-
trances and sidewalks lying within the dedicated right-of-way, in such
condition to allow the safe passage of vehicles and pedestrians.

[SECTION 20. GARBAGE AND TRASH.]

b.   Garbage and Trash. The [Mayor and] Council [is hereby author-
ized to] may provide means for the collection and removal of garbage,
trash, rubbish, and other refuse matter from within the corporate limits
of the [Town,] City, whenever in its discretion it believes the public
health and safety of the residents of the [Town] City require the same,
or the public necessity warrants the same and in such event, the collection
and removal of such garbage, trash, rubbish and other refuse matter may
be undertaken by the [Town] City itself, through employees of the mu-
nicipality and the use of municipal equipment, or said municipality may
contract for the collection and removal of such garbage, trash, rubbish
and other refuse matter with such person, firm, or corporation as the
[municipality] Council may agree with for such collection and removal,
under such agreement [,] and upon such terms and for such compensation