The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-05-28
Appertaining to Street Improve
ments in the Town of Grants
vile and an Increase in the
Tax Rate of Said Town.
CHAPTER 243.

CHAPTER 243.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Sections PIP and PA
of Article IL of the Code Of Public
Local Laws of Maryland 1880 Edi-
tom, title Garrett County," sub
title "Grantsville," allowing the
Council of said town to assess and
tax the expenses for paving, grad
ing, curbing or repairing the streets
and sidewalks upon owners of prop
erty fronting thereon, and to collect
said tax, and to increase the tax
rate in said town.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
tions PIP and PA of Article IL of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Mary
land 1880 Edition), title Garrett
County," subtitle "Grantsville," be
and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
212. 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, bonfres,
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 its removal
to designated points, and to require
slops, 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
Uses, 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 iH-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 oc-