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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.

(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 caused 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.