The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-06-14
[CHAPTER NO. 1911. /

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend
ments Section 279A of Article IL of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title Frederick County" subtitle
"Frederick,n as the same was amended
by Chapter 81 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland passed at its ses-
sion in the year nineteen hundred and
ten.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section 270A
of Article II of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title Frederick COun-
ty," subtitle Frederick az the same
was amended by Chapter 81 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland passed
at its session in the year nineteen hundred
and ten be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to
read as follows:
Section 270A. The Mayor and Alder
man of Frederick, shall have power to pass
all laws and ordinances necessary for the
good government of the City, to prevent,
remove and abate all nuisances or ObstIuc-
tions in are the streets, highways, lanes or
alleys, drains. or water courses; to regulate
and prescribe by ordinance as protection
against fire; whether houses to be built or
erected in said City shall be built of wood
or other materials, and to prescribe in what
parts and sections, thereof, buildings of
wood may be erected, and to prescribe pen
alties for violating any such ordinance; to
require by ordinance that every person
who wishes or proposes to erect or add to
Il
make written application to the City
Register, or such other person as shall be
designated by ordinance for permit to
erect the same, before beginning work
thereon, and in such application to set forth
the location, character, materials, purposes
and uses of said building and before be-
ginning work on the same obtain permit
as now or hereafter provided by ordinance,
upon payment of such sum as the ordinance
shall provide; and to provide by ordinance
penalties for the erection or beginning to
erect or add to any building without such
permits; to provide by ordinance for taking
down and removing any building erected
OF wood in any part or section of the City
in violation of any such ordinance wherein
the erection of buildings of wood are for
hidden, and for taking down and removing
any building erected without permit first
had and Obtaine as now or hereafter pro-
vided by ordinance; to cause sidewalks
along the public streets and highways of
the City to he graded, paved, repaired or
improved, curbs to be set and cutters laid.
at the cost and expense of the abutting
property or owner thereof or compel by fine
or otherwise, the owner or proprietor of any
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or footways, to establish and regulate q
station house or lookup for temporary con-
hnement of violators of the laws and ordi-
nances of the City; to suppress vagrancy;
and for the purpose of carrying out the
aforegoing powers, and for the preservation
OF the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order Of the community and for the pro-
lection OF the lives and property of the cit
liens, and for the violation of any ordinance
or any section of any ordinance passed up-
der the provisions of this section. or nv
authority thereof, they may impose such
reasonable fines, not exceeding one hum
dred dollars in any case, as to them appear
right, and in default of the payment of any
fine imposed they may provide for the i'm
prlsonment of the offenders for a period not
exceeding ninety days, or until the fine be
paid; and all ordinances or parts of ordi-
nances heretofore passed and adopted by
the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick.
now IN force, ami not in conflict with the
provisions of this Act, are continued in
force until the same are repealed or modi-
fed.
Section 2. Be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April s, 1912
p. L. GOLDSBOROUGH,
Governor
JAMES Nee. Triple.
Speaker of the House of Delega rates.
JESSE d. PRICE,
President of the Senate.
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House.
l Hereby Certify, That the aforegoing is
true copy of an Act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed at the Janu-
airy Session, 1912.
ALBERT J. ALMONEY.
Chief Clerk of the House.
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