2170                               Municipal Charters

the impounding, keeping, sale, and redemption of such animals when found
in violation of the ordinance in such cases provided.

(37)   Markets.—To obtain by lease or rent, own, construct, pur-
chase, operate, and maintain public markets within the Town.

(38)   Minor privileges.—To regulate or prevent the use of public
ways, sidewalks, and public places for signs, awnings, posts, steps, rail-
ings, entrances, racks, posting handbills and advertisements, and display
of goods, wares, and merchandise.

(39)   Noise.—To regulate or prohibit unreasonable ringing of bells,
crying of goods, or sounding of whistles and horns.

(40)   Nuisances.—To prevent or abate by appropriate ordinance all
nuisances in the Town which are so defined at common law, by this char-
ter, or by the laws of the State of Maryland, whether they be herein
specifically named or not; to regulate, to prohibit, to control the location
of, or to require the removal from the Town of all trading in, handling
of, or manufacture of any commodity which is or may become offensive,
obnoxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health. In this connection
the Town may regulate, prohibit, control the location of, or require the
removal from the Town of such things as stockyards, slaughterhouses, cattle
or hog pens, tanneries, and renderies. This listing is by way of enumera-
tion, not limitation.

(41)    Obstructions.—To remove all nuisances and obstructions from
the streets, lanes, and alleys and from any lots adjoining thereto, or any
other places within the limits of the Town.

(42)   Parking facilities.—To license and regulate and to establish,
obtain by purchase, by lease or by rent, own, construct, operate, and main-
tain parking lots and other facilities for off-street parking.

(43)   Parking meters.—To install parking meters on the streets and
public places of the Town in such places as by ordinance they determine,
and by ordinance to prescribe rates and provisions for the use thereof;
but the installation of parking meters on any street or road maintained
by the State Roads Commission of Maryland must first be approved by
the Commission.

(44)   Parks and recreation.—To establish and maintain public parks,
gardens, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities and programs to
promote the health, welfare, and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the

Town.

(45)    Police force.—To establish, operate, and maintain a police
force. All Town policemen, within the municipality shall have the powers
and authority of constables in this State.

(46)   Police powers.—To prohibit, suppress, and punish within the
Town all vice, gambling, and games of chance; prostitution and solicita-
tion therefor and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses of ill fame; all
tramps and vagrants; all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, disorderly
conduct, obscenity, public profanity, and drunkenness.

(47)   Property.—To acquire by conveyance, purchase, or gift, real
or leasable property for any public purposes; to erect buildings and struc-
tures thereon for the benefit of the Town and its inhabitants; and to con-
vey any real or leasehold property when no longer needed for the public
use, after having given at least twenty days' public notice of the pro-