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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 737

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That section(s)
of the Annotated Code of Maryland be repealed, amended, or

enacted to read as follows:

SECTION 1, BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows;

Article 23A - Corporations — Municipal

2.

The legislative body of every incorporated municipality
in this State, except Baltimore City, by whatever name
known, shall have general power to pass such ordinances not
contrary to the public general or public local laws and the
Constitution of Maryland as they may deem necessary in order
to assure the good government of the municipality, to
protect and preserve the municipality's rights, property,
and privileges, to preserve peace and good order, to secure
persons and property from danger and destruction, and to
protect the health, comfort and convenience of the citizens
of the municipality; but nothing in this article shall be
construed to authorize the legislative body of any
incorporated municipality to pass any ordinance which is
inconsistent or in conflict with any ordinance, rule or
regulation passed, ordained or adopted by the
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and
the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and nothing in
this article shall be taken or construed to affect, change,
modify, limit or restrict in any manner any of the corporate
powers of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore which it
now has or which hereafter may be granted to it.

In addition to, tut not in substitution of, the powers
which have been, or may hereafter be, granted to it, such
legislative body also shall have the following express
ordinance-making powers:

(23A) To provide for the creation and appointment of a

board of port wardens to exercise jurisdiction within the

limits of the municipal corporation.

(I)

TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION AND APPOINTMENT

OF A BOARD OF PORT WARDENS TO EXERCISE JURISDICTION WITHIN

THE LIMITS OF THE MUNICIPALITY WITH RESPECT TO THE

PLACEMENT, ERECTION, OR CONSTRUCTION OF ANY AND ALL OBJECTS,
STRUCTURES, OR OTHER BARRIERS WITHIN, OR ON THE WATERS OF

THE MUNICIPALITY, TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR DUTIES AND POWERS

GENERALLY TO ESTABLISH THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD OVER

THE CREATION OR BUILDING OF WHARVES, AND TO LICENSE THEM,

AND TO ISSUE PERMITS FOR MOORING PILES, FLOATING WHARVES

BUOYS, OR ANCHORS, AND TO REGULATE NAVIGATION GENERALLY

WITHIN THE WATERS, TAKING INTO EFFECT THE PRESENT AND

PROPOSED USES, AND THE EFFECT OF PRESENT AND PROPOSED USES

ON MARINE LIFE, WILD LIFE, CONSERVATION, WATER POLLUTION,

EROSION, NAVIGATIONAL HAZARDS, THE EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED