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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

valorem property taxes; to expend town funds for any
public purpose; to have general management and control of
the finances of the Town and to designate by ordinance or
resolution the banks or trust companies of this State in
which shall be deposited all funds belonging to the town.

-17.39.Fires — To suppress fires and prevent the
dangers thereof and to establish and maintain a Fire
Department; to contribute funds to volunteer fire
companies serving the town; to inspect buildings for the
purpose of reducing fire hazards and to forbid and
prohibit the use of fire-hazardous buildings and
structures permanently or until the conditions of Town
fire hazard regulations are met and to take all other
measures necessary to control and prevent fires in the

Town.                                                                                                                                                                                   

-17.40.Garbage - To regulate or prevent by penalties
and fines the throwing or depositing or any dirt,
garbage, trash or liquids on any private or public
property, to provide for the proper disposal of such
material and to levy such fees as may be necessary for
the municipal collection of such material.

-17.41.Grants-in-aid - Other Funds - To accept gifts or

grants of Federal, State or County funds, or funds from
any other available sources and to expend the funds for
any lawful purpose agreeable to the conditions under
which the gift or grants were made.

-17.42.Hawkers - To License, tax, regulate, suppress
and prohibit hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers and
all other persons selling any articles on the streets of
the Town including solicitors for charitable causes and
to revoke such licenses for cause.                   

-17.43.Health - To protect and preserve the health of
the Town and its inhabitants; to appoint a public health
officer and to define and regulate his powers and duties;
to inspect, regulate and abate any buildings, structures
or places or movement of night soil which cause
unsanitary conditions or conditions detrimental to
health, but nothing herein shall be construed to affect
in any manner any of the powers and duties of the State
Board of Health, the County Board of Health or any
public, general or local law relating to the subject of
health.

-17.44.Housing - To establish a Housing Code and
provide for the enforcement thereof.

-17.45.Licenses - Subject to any restrictions imposed
by the State of Maryland to license and regulate all
persons beginning or conducting transient or permanent