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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 562

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, but 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:

(13) To grant franchises as provided under
existing public general or public local laws; TO GRANT ONE
OR MORE FRANCHISES WHICH MAY BE EXCLUSIVE IN NATURE, FOR A
COMMUNITY ANTENNA SYSTEM OR OTHER CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEM,

TO ESTABLISH RATES AND REGULATE SERVICES, TO IMPOSE

FRANCHISE FEES, AND TO ESTABLISH OTHER RULES TO GOVERN THE
OPERATION OF THE FRANCHISES. TO GRANT ONE OR MORE EXCLUSIVE
OR NONEXCLUSIVE FRANCHISES FOR A COMMUNITY ANTENNA SYSTEM OR
OTHER CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEM THAT UTILIZES ANY PUBLIC
RIGHT-OF-WAY, HIGHWAY, STREET, ROAD, LANE, ALLEY, OR BRIDGE,
TO IMPOSE FRANCHISE FEES, AND TO ESTABLISH RATES, RULES, AND
REGULATIONS FOR FRANCHISES GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

Article 25 - County Commissioners

3C.

(a) The county commissioners of each county in this
State shall have the power to grant to any person [a
franchise] ONE OR MORE FRANCHISES WHICH MAY BE EXCLUSIVE IN
NATURE for a community antenna television system OR OTHER
CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEM, provided that nothing NOTHING
herein contained shall be construed to authorize or empower