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1280 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 398
(17) To provide that any valid charges, taxes or
assessments made against any real property within the
municipality shall be liens upon such property to be collected in
the same manner as municipal taxes are collected.
(18) To establish and to regulate markets, and to
license the sale of marketable commodities therein.
(19) To establish a merit system in connection with
the appointment of all municipal officials and employees not
elected or appointed under the Constitution or public general or
public local laws of the State, and to request and avail
themselves of the facilities of the Commissioner of State
Employment and Registration for the administration of such merit
system without unnecessary expense.
(20) To establish and maintain such parks, gardens,
playgrounds, and recreational facilities as in the discretion of
the legislative body are deemed to be for the health and welfare
of the municipality and its inhabitants.
(21) To provide a retirement or pension system or a
group insurance plan for its officers or employees or for
including its officers and employees in any retirement or pension
system operated by or in conjunction with the State, on such
terms and conditions as State laws may prescribe.
(22) To establish and maintain an adequate police
force.
(23) To punish and suppress vagrancy, vice, gambling,
and the owning or keeping of houses of ill fame within the limits
of the town.
To enforce all ordinances relating to disorderly conduct and
the suppression of nuisances equally within the limits of the
municipality and beyond those limits for one half mile, or for so
much of this distance as does not conflict with the powers of
another municipal corporation.
(23A) The municipal corporation may provide for the
creation, appointment, duties, and powers of a board of port
wardens to exercise jurisdiction within the limits of the
municipal corporation.
(i) A board of port wardens may regulate the
placement, erection, or construction of structures or other
barriers within or on the waters of the municipality, including
cut not limited to the issuing of licenses to create or build
wharves or piers and the issuing of permits for mooring piles,
floating wharves, buoys, or anchors, taking into account 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 use on
congestion within the waters, the effect on other riparian
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