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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 770

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:

(15) To appoint a board of health, and to define
and regulate its powers and duties; to establish quarantine
regulations, and to authorize the removal or confinement of
persons having infectious or contagious diseases; to prevent
and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction of
contagious diseases into the municipality; to regulate the
places of manufacturing soap, fertilizer, and other noxious
things; to regulate slaughterhouses, packing houses, and all
places where offensive trades may be carried on; to regulate
places which cause or may cause unsanitary conditions, or
conditions detrimental to health. Provided, that nothing
herein shall be construed to affect in any manner any of the
powers and duties of the [State Board of Health,] SECRETARY
OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE or ANY county board of health
or any public general or public local law relating to the
subject of health.

31.

Every municipal corporation shall have the power under
this subheading to borrow money for any proper public
purpose and to evidence such borrowing by the issue and sale
of its general obligation bonds in the manner herein
prescribed, unless the charter of said municipal corporation
shall provide a different procedure for the borrowing of
money or shall be amended so to provide in the manner set
forth in this subtitle. Charter amendments for such purpose
are hereby authorized. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this subheading or of any such charter, every such municipal
corporation shall also have the authority to exercise all
powers conferred upon municipal corporations by [§§ 47, 387
to 427, inclusive, and 445 to 466, inclusive, of Article 43
of this Code, title "Health" "Health," in accord with
provisions in said enumerated sections, and also to exercise
the powers conferred upon municipal corporations by §§ 428
to 444, inclusive, of Article 43 of this Code, title
"Health," subtitle "Municipal Corporations"] TITLE 9 OF THE
HEALTH - ENVIRONMENTAL ARTICLE. Every such municipal
corporation shall likewise have authority to borrow money in
anticipation of the receipt of current taxes and to evidence
such borrowing by the issuance and sale of tax anticipation
notes, payable as to principal and interest from said taxes