3774

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 892

safety;

(4)     [To provide] PROVIDE for the taking down and
removal of buildings, walls, structures, or
superstructures in the Regional District in Prince
George's County that are or may become dangerous, or [to]
require owners to move then or [to] put then in a safe
and sound condition at their own expense;

(5)      [To regulate] REGULATE the building and
maintenance of party walls, partitions, fences, parapet
and fire walls, "smoke flues, fireplaces, hot—air flues,
boilers, kettles, smokestacks, and stove pipes in that
portion of the Regional District, and the storage of
gasoline and other combustibles or explosives therein;

(6)    [To provide] PROVIDE for and regulate the safe
construction, inspection, and repair of all private and
public buildings within that portion of the Regional
District;

(7)    [To regulate] REGULATE, restrain, or prohibit
the erection of wooden or frame buildings within the
[present] limits of that portion of the Regional District
or any thickly populated portion of the Regional District
and [to] remove the same at the owner's expense, when
erected or suffered to remain contrary to law or [such]
regulations [as] it [may adopt] ADOPTS;

(8)      [To regulate] REGULATE the height,
construction, and inspection of all new buildings
hereafter erected in that portion of the Regional
District;

(9)    [To regulate] REGULATE the limits within which
it [shall be] IS lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay
windows, or other structural ornaments to houses fronting
on any of the highways, streets, avenues, lanes, or
alleys of that portion of the Regional District;

(10)    [To regulate] REGULATE the materials used and
the manner of installing any and all systems of electric
wiring, piping, conduit laying in any building, and [to]
regulate the location, manner of installation, size, and
area per lot of all advertising structures and [to]
restrict the projection [and] OF the same over public
property; and

(11)    Generally [to] adopt and enforce, for the
whole of that portion of the Regional District or for
thickly populated portions thereof, all necessary
regulations or rules of the same over public property;

(12)   [To prescribe] PRESCRIBE fines and penalties