2332                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

(60)  REMOVALS AND SUSPENSIONS - To remove or temporarily suspend
from office any person who has been appointed to any municipal office and who
after due notice and hearing is adjudged to have been guilty of inefficiency,
malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, misconduct in office, or insubordination;
and to fill the vacancy cause by such removal or suspension.

(61)  SALARIES -To fix the salary or compensation of all municipal employees.

(62)  SEAL - To make, have and use, and from time to time, alter, a common
seal.

(63)  SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS - The council may construct,
establish and maintain in working order, a sewerage system in the City of New
Carrollton, if facilities of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission are not
available, for the collection, transmission, and disposal of drainage and sewage
from the houses and other buildings, and cesspools, wells, sinks and other
receptacles for sewage drainage, etc., in the City, including also, if the council shall
at any time require for the protection and maintenance of any public street,
sidewalk or other public facility, facilities for the collection, transmission, and
disposal of storm water and other drainage from the streets, lanes, roads, and
alleys thereof.

(64)  SIDEWALKS - To regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in,
under, or above them; to require the owner or occupant of the premises to keep the
sidewalks in front thereof free from snow or other obstructions; to prescribe hours for
cleaning sidewalks.

(65)  SIGNS - To regulate or prohibit the building or display of signs, banners,
billboards, flyers or other public advertising displays by persons or organizations.

(66)   SNOW AND ICE - To require the owners of premises to keep the
sidewalks thereon clean and free from snow, ice, or other obstructions; to provide
for the removal of snow and ice from the streets.

(67)  SPECIAL ELECTIONS - To provide for special elections for municipal
purposes, at such times, and places as may be determined, and subject to the
provisions of the charter of this municipality.

(68)  STREETS - To regulate, control, lay out, open, extend, improve, close,
and maintain the construction, maintenance, and use of the streets, alleys, curbs,
roads, roadbeds, gutters, culverts, drains and sidewalks of the city so as to provide
a safe, convenient system of drainage, travel and transportation for the city; to
regulate parking on city streets, roads and alleys by all types of vehicles including
commercial vehicles. The city shall also have the power to control or prohibit the
obstruction of such streets and sidewalks and to control or prohibit distractions or
commotions on or near same. Those parts of the public roads, streets, avenues,
alleys, or ways which are now or shall hereafter be shown on any legally recorded
plat or addition to the legally platted part of the City as public roadways, and
accepted by the Council as such, are declared to be public streets of the City.

(69)   SWEEPINGS - To regulate or prevent the throwing or depositing of
sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids, or other
unwholesome materials into any public way or on any public or private property in
the town.

(70)  TAXICABS - To license, tax, and regulate public hackmen, taxicab men,
draymen, drivers, cabmen, porters and expressmen, and all other persons pursuing
like occupations.