2346                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

(43)   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.

(44)   MARKETS - To obtain by lease or rent, own, construct, purchase,
operate, and maintain public markets within the town.

(45)  MERIT SYSTEM - To establish a merit system in connection with the
appointment of all municipal officials and employees not elected or appointed
under the Constitution or public general or public local laws of the State, and to
request and avail themselves of the facilities of the Commissioner of State
Employment and Registration for the administration of such merit system without
unnecessary expense.

(46)  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.

(47)   MOTOR VEHICLES - To provide regulations and ordinances for the
control of motor vehicles, traffic and parking within the city.

(48)  NOISE - To regulate or prohibit unreasonable ringing of bells, crying of
goods, sounding of whistles and horns, or any other offensive sound or noise.

(49)   NUISANCES - To prevent or abate by appropriate ordinances all
nuisances in the town which are so defined by common law, by this charter, or by
the laws of the State of Maryland, whether they be herein specifically named or
not; to regulate, to prohibit, to control the location of, to require the removal from
the town of all trading in, handling of or manufacture of any commodity which is
or may become offensive, obnoxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health.
In this connection the town may regulate, prohibit, control the location of, or
require the removal from the town of such things as stockyards, slaughterhouses,
cattle or hogpens, tanneries, abbatoirs, candle or soap factories, boneboiling, meat
roasting or barbecue establishments, and renderies. This listing is by way of
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