The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-07-19
CHAPTER NO. 90.


AN ACT to amend Chapter 200 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1916, providing a new
charter for the town of Mount Ra-
nier, Maryland, by enacting new
section to be designated as Section
1EA of said town charter, said amend
ment comforting certain additional
police powers upon the Mayor and
Common Council of said town of
Mount Rainier, and making this Act
emergency legislation effective from
the date Of its passage.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Chapter 200 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1912, provid
ing a new charter for the town of
Mnunt Rainier, in Prince Georges
County, Maryland, be and the same is
hereby amended by adding a new Sec
ton thereto, said section being desig-
mated as Section 15A of said charter, to
read as follows:
Section 15A. And be it further en-
acted, That the Mayor and Common
Council of Mount Rainier, Maryland,
shall have power, in addition to the
power heretofore given or now possess
ed, to prevent and remove all nuisances
and distractions from the streets,
alleys, lanes, and from lots adjoining
the same; to restrain and punish all
| disorders, disturbances and drunken
| ness thereto; to suppress bawdy houses
or other places of public ill-fame or
injurious to the public order; to prevent
the firing of guns, cannons, pistols,
| rifles, slingshots, frecrackers or other
| firearms or explosives therein; to sup
press fires and to prevent the danger
thereof by all reasonable regulations
and precautions; to establish and to
maintain fire department; to regulate
the erection and repair of all buildings
land grant permits therefor, specifying
the material of which the same may be
built and the purpose for which same
may be used; to restrict the building of
| wooden buildings in certain sections of
the town, when in the judgment of the
Mayor and Common Council such
regulations shall become purdent and
necessary; to prevent and to regulate
the keeping and storing of gunpowder,
oil or other explosives or combustible
material, in such places and under such
conditions as may appear proper; to
regulate The speed of all vehicles and
street cars in said town; to provide for
the proper restraining of all improper
public exhibitions or amusements and
to regulate the proper erection of
buildings therefor and the maintenance
of safe exits tberefrom; to regulate and
provide for the proper condition of
sidewalks: to prevent the throwing or
| allowing the accumulation of foreign
material or of any offensive or dirty
material on the public streets or near
thereto; to regulate the keeping of dogs
in the town, to provide tax or license
therefor; to provide for the effective
| collection thereof; and to provide proper
| penalties for any person keeping a dog
or bitch, or allowing one to remain on
his premises who does not comply with
such regulations; providing for the
| killing of all dogs, the owners or ones
| in possession of which do not comply
with such regulations and for killing
or impounding of all dogs found run
ming at large, in violation of such
| regulations;and for the proper execu-
ton of all of the aforesaid regulations,
the Mayor and Common Council may
| provide such penalties as now allowed
to them by the Town Charter.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
I hat as this Act is one of emergency,
and necessary for the immediate pre-
servation of the public health and
safety, it shall take effect from the date
OF its passage.
Approved March 90, 1918.
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON,
Governor
HERBERT R. WOODEN,
| Speaker of the House of Delegates.
| PETER J. CAMPBELL,
| President of the Senate.
| Office of the Chief Clerk of the House.
l hereby Ceatify, That the aforego.
ing is true copy Of Act of the GEN
| eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at
| the January Session, 1918.
J. J. ROBINSON,
| Chief Clark