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(b)    The Council is further authorized to adopt and enforce
uniform schedules of fees for licensing any class of business or enter-
prise as it may deem necessary, or the Council by resolution may
authorize the County Executive by regulation to establish such fees,
not to exceed the reasonable costs of licensing and enforcement. Such
fees as shall be collected shall be paid over to the Director of Finance
for the use of the District. The Council is further authorized to
provide by law for the County Executive to promulgate reasonable
regulations for the control of vehicular traffic on the public highways
of such area, in so far as such regulations shall not be in conflict
with the motor vehicle laws of the state; to designate certain streets
or highways as arterial highways or boulevards, and to require all
vehicles to stop at certain places to be designated from time to time;
to establish and maintain on the public streets or highways traffic
signs and directors, silent policemen, traffic lights and any and all
devices deemed necessary for the control of traffic; to designate streets
or portions of streets as one-way lanes of travel in such direction as
may from time to time be designated; to prescribe the method and
manner of parking vehicles on the public streets; to designate certain
areas or streets or portions thereof as "no parking areas," and to
prohibit the parking of any vehicle in such areas at such time as they
may designate. The Council is authorized to prescribe by law reason-
able penalties for the violations of any such regulations promulgated
by the County Executive.

(c)    The County is authorized and empowered to construct
streets, sidewalks, gutters, alleys and curbs; to erect, maintain and
protect such buildings for municipal purposes as may be deemed
necessary and proper; to cause the public streets and public buildings
to be lighted; to permit under such restrictions as it may deem
proper; not inconsistent with existing law, the laying of railroad
tracks and the running of cars propelled by steam, electricity or other
power thereon; to permit the construction and maintenance of tele-
graph, telephone and electric lines and gas mains on or in the public
streets, and to impose such restrictions and conditions upon the loca-
tion and maintenance of gas, electric light and trolley wires, poles,
pipes and railroad tracks as shall secure the least possible public
or private inconvenience; provided, however, that such permits as to
underground construction shall be in addition to those required by
existing law; to contract for periods not exceeding five years with
any public or private corporation or any person for supplying the
District or the inhabitants thereof with gas or electricity or for any
general municipal purpose except the furnishing of water or sewer
service; provided, however, that such contracts shall be let only as
prescribed by law for County contracts; to provide for condemning,
laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or alleys
and pedestrian routes or sidewalks and for altering, straightening,
widening, grading, improving or closing up in whole or in part any