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enumeration, not limitation.

(50)  OBSTRUCTIONS - 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 town.

(51)  PARKING FACILITIES - 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.

(52)  PARKING METERS - To install parking meters on the streets and public
places of the town in such places as by ordinance they determine, and by ordinance
to prescribe rates and provisions for the use thereof; but the installation of parking
meters on any street or road maintained by the State Roads Commission of
Maryland must first be approved by the Commission.

(53)  PARKS AND RECREATION - 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 town.

(54)   PENSION - To provide a retirement or pension system or a group
insurance plan for its officers or employees or for including its officers and
employees in any retirement or pension system operated by or in conjunction with
the State, on such terms and conditions as State laws may prescribe.

(55)  POLICE FORCE - To establish, operate, and maintain a police force. All
town policemen within the municipality shall have the powers and authority of
constables in this State. The Council may also authorize the Mayor to contract
with Prince George's County for the provision of additional county police
protection in the City.

(56)  POLICE POWERS - To prohibit, suppress, and punish within the town 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, disturbances, annoyances, disorderly conduct, obscenity, public profanity,
drunkenness, or trespass.

(57)  PROPERTY - To acquire by conveyance, purchase or condemnation real
or leasehold property needed for any public purpose; to erect buildings thereon for
the benefit of the municipality; and to sell at public or private sale after twenty
days' public notice and to convey to the purchaser or purchasers thereof any real
or leasehold property belonging to the municipality when such legislative body
determines that the same is no longer needed for any public use.

To take by gift, grant, bequest, or devise and to hold real and personal property
absolutely or in trust for parks or gardens, or for the erection of statues,
monuments, buildings or structures, or for any public use, upon such terms and
conditions as may be prescribed by the grantor or donor, and accepted by the
municipality; to provide for the proper administration of the same; and to convey
the same when such legislative body determines that it is no longer needed for
public purposes, subject to the terms and conditions of the original grant.

(58)  QUARANTINE - To establish quarantine regulations in the interests of
the public health.

(59)  REGULATIONS To adopt by ordinance and enforce within the corporate
limits police, health, sanitary, fire, building, plumbing, traffic, speed, parking, and
other similar regulations not in conflict with the laws of the State of Maryland or
with this charter.