The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-06-11
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS


County," subtitle "Grantsville," be
and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
PIP. Said Mayor and Countil shall
have power to pass all ordinances not
contrary to the constitution and laws
of the State, as it may deem necessary
| for the good government of the town;
for the protection and preservation
of the towns property rights and
privileges; for the preservation of
peace and good order and securing
persons and property from violence,
| danger or destruction; for the pro-
lection of health, comfort and conve-
! nience of the citizens of Grantsville
| and visitors thereto or sojourners
therein; for providing proper and
suitable lights upon the streets; to
regulate the location and manage
ment of starch factories, glue factor
les, bone factories, soap factories,
hide houses, tanneries, slaughter
houses, breweries, distilleries, livery
stables and all other establishments
of which the business or trade may
become noXious or injurious to pub
lie comfort or health; to prohibit the
erection of such buildings or the con-
tinuance of such noxious, injurious
occupations therein, wherever the
public comfort or health requires it;
to prevent or regulate the use and
sale of firearms, fireworks, bonfires,
| or other things or practices tending
, to endanger persons or property; to
! regulate and prohibit the running at
large of cattle, horses or swine, fowls,
sheep, goats, dogs or other animals;
to authorizing the impounding, keep
ing, sale and redemption of such an
imals when found in violation of the
| ordinance in such case provided; to
prevent the deposit of any unwhole-
some substance either on private or
public property; compel it's removal
to designated points, and to require
Stops, garbage, ashes and other
wastes or unwholesome materials to
be removed to designated points, or to
require the occupants of premises to
place them conveniently for removal;
to compel the occupants of any prem
ises, buildings or outhouses situated
in said town when the same have be-
| come filthy or unwholesome, to abate
or cleanse the same, and upon fail
ure of the owners to abate such nui-
sance, then the Council shall author
ize the same to be done by the proper
public officers and to assess the ex-
penses thereof against such proper
ty; to regulate or prevent the storage
of gun powder, tar, pitch, coal oil,
benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nj
| troglycerine, dynamite, giant pow
der, petroleum or gasoline or any pro-
| duct thereof, or any other explosive or
combustible materials, or any materi-
ais which may be dangerous; to au-
thorize the removal or confinement of
persons having infectious or pestilen-
tial diseases; to pass all ordinances
and orders, and to eXpend such sums
of money as may be necessary within
the limitations herein provided for the
protection, maintenance and preser-
walton of the water supply of the town
and the prevention of the pollution
thereof; to make all regulation which
may be deemed expedient for the pro-
motion of health or suppression of
disease; to regulate the construction
of chimneys, smoke stacks, hearths,
ovens, the erection of stoves and stove
pipes, boilers and apparatus used in
buildings or other places, and cause
the same to be removed or made Sc
cure when considered dangerous; to
suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy
houses and houses of ill-fame, and to
prohibit the youth of said town from
being on the streets, lanes or alleys
at unreasonable hours of the night; to
punish and suppress tramps and va
grants by imposing fines or both fines
and imprisonment at hard labor, and
to abate by appropriate ordinances all
nuisances in said town, which are so
| defined at common law, whether the
same are herein specifically named or
not; to regulate the use of sidewalks
and all structures in, under or over
| the same; to require the owner or &C.
cupant of premises to keep the side
walks in front of the same free from
snow and other distractions and pre-
scribe hours for cleaning same; to
regulate and prevent the throwing or
depositing of sweepings, dust or
ashes, offal or dirt, garbage, paper,
hand-bills, dirty liquids or any other
materials in any street, alley or pub
lie place; to regulate and prevent the
use of streets, sidewalks and public
places for signs, sign posts, awnings,
awning posts, poles, horse troughs,
steps, ratings, entrances, racks, post
ing hand-bills and advertisements and
display of goods, wares and merchan-
disc; to cause the streets, lanes and
alleys to be sidewalked, paved, grad
ed, curbed, repaired, repaved, regrad-
ed, recurbed, grained or severed, or
to close streets or parts of streets,
lanes or alleys; to assess and tax the
expenses of paving, grading, curbing,
or repairing, regarding, repaving or
recurbing the sidewalks or streets of
said town, in whole or in part, upon
the respective owners of property
fronting thereon, that the expense and
cost of paving, grading, curbing or re-
pairing regarding, repaving or re-
curbing or otherwise improving the
sidewalks or streets in said town, in
curred-by the Council under it's ordi-
nances may be charged and recovered
by said Council in the name of the
corporation from the owners of the
property fronting thereon, by suit or
action at law against the owner or