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companies, transit companies, taxicab companies, and any others which
may be deemed advantageous and beneficial to the Town, subject to the
limitations and provisions of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land. No franchise shall be granted for a longer period than fifty years.

(27)   Garbage.—To prevent the deposit of any unwholesome sub-
stance either on private or public property and to compel its removal to
designated points; to require slops, garbage, ashes, and other waste or
other unwholesome materials to be removed to designated points, or to
require the occupants of the premises to place them conveniently for re-
moval.

(28)   Grants-in-aid.—To accept gifts and grants of federal, or of
State funds from the federal or State governments or any agency thereof,
and to expend the funds for any lawful purpose, agreeably to the condi-
tions under which the gifts or grants were made.

(29)    Hawkers.—To license, tax, regulate, suppress, and prohibit
hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, and all other per-
sons selling any articles on the streets of the Town, and to revoke such
licenses for any action or threat of action by such a licensee in the course
of his occupation which causes or threatens harm or injury to inhabitants
of the Town or to their welfare or happiness.

(30)   Health.—To preserve and protect the health of the Town and
its inhabitants; to appoint a public health officer, and to define and regu-
late his powers and duties; to prevent the introduction of contagious dis-
eases into the Town; to establish quarantine regulations, and to authorize
the removal and confinement of persons having contagious or infectious
diseases; to prevent and remove all nuisances; to inspect, regulate, and
abate any buildings, structures, or places which cause or may cause un-
sanitary conditions or conditions detrimental to health; but nothing herein
shall be construed to affect in any manner any of the powers and duties
of the State Board of Health, the County board of health, or any public
general or local law relating to the subject of health.

(31)    House numbers.—To regulate the numbering of houses and lots
and to compel owners to renumber them, or in default thereof to authorize
and require the work to be done by the Town at the owner's expense, such
expense to constitute a lien upon the property collectible as tax monies.

(32)    Jail.—To establish and regulate a station house or lockup for
temporary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances of the
Town or to use the county jail for such purpose.

(33)   License.—Subject to any restrictions imposed by the public
general laws of the State, to license and regulate all persons beginning or
conducting transient or permanent business in the Town for the sale of any
goods, wares, merchandise, or services, to license and regulate any busi-
ness, occupation, trade, calling, or place of amusement or business; to
establish and collect fees and charges for all licenses and permits issued
under the authority of this charter.

(34)    Liens.—To provide that any valid charges, taxes, or assess-
ments made against any real property within the Town shall be liens upon
the property, to be collected as municipal taxes are collected.

(35)   Lights.—To provide for the lighting of the Town.

(36)   Livestock.—To regulate and prohibit the running at large of
cattle, horses, swine, fowl, sheep, goats, dogs, or other animals; to authorize