The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-02-24
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POWERS

have power:
To prevent, remove and abate
all nuisances or distractions in or
upon the streets, highways, lanes or
alleys, drains or water courses, or
in or upon any lot adjacent thereto,
and to provide for imposing a fine
on any person causing or creating
any such nuisance or obstruction;
To provide by ordinance for the
regulation and location of all stock
yards, cattle pens, hog pens, and
slaughter houses within said City or
for their removal from the corpor-
ate limits of Hagerstown;
To regulate and control all Of
fensive trades, manufacture and
traffic in offensive fertilizers or other
commodities within the City limits;
To make reasonable regulations
in regard to buildings to be erected
in said town, and to grant building
permits for the same;
To make and establish grades up
on the streets and highways of the
town;
To cause sidewalks along the
public streets and highways of said
town to be graded, paved, repaired,
or improved, curbs to be set and
cutters laid, at the cost and expenses
of the abutting property or the own
er thereof; or compel, by fine or
otherwise, the owner or proprietor
of any lot to pave or repave the
sidewalks or footways; to set curbs
and lay cutters in front thereof,
agreeably to the ordinances now in
force or which may be hereafter
passed;
To cause the water courses,
drains, or sewers of the town to be
paved, kept in repair and cleansed;
To provide for proper and suit
able lights upon the public streets;
To grant the use of the streets
and thoroughfares of said City to
any public service company and
prescribe the terms and conditions
upon which such use shall be al
lowed;
To provide for the numbering
of the houses of Hagerstown;
To establish and regulate public
markets and to grant licenses on
marketable commodities;
To suppress vagrancy;
To prohibit and restrain the
keeping of bawdy houses or houses
of ill-fame within the limits of
said City;
To inspect buildings and struc-
lures for the purpose of reducing
fire hazards, to issue regulations con-
corning fire hazards and to forbid
and prohibit the use of fire hazard
Gus buildings and structures per-
or until the conditions of
city fire hazard regulations are met;
and to take all other measures nee
essary to control and prevent fires
in said City;
To provide for the entering into
and examination of all dwelling lots,
yards, enclosures and buildings to
ascertain their condition for health,
and safety, for the TAX
ing down and removing at the ex-
pense of the owners, of buildings,
walls, structures or superstructures
which are or may become danger
Gus, or to require owners to remove
them or put them in a safe and
sound condition at their own ex-
pense; to regulate the building and
of party walls, smoke
fues, freplaces, chinneys, hot-air
fues, smokes and stovepipes;
to provide for and regulate the safe
construction, inspection and repairs
of all private and public buildings
within the City; to regulate the
height, construction and inspection
of all new buildings hereafter erect
ed in said City, and the inspection
and repairs of any buildings already
To license, regulate, tax and
pawnbrokers or dealers in
secondhand goods, wares or mer-
chandise.
Is. The City of Hagerstown shall
have the power within the corporate
Limits of said City to license, regu-
late and restrain;
Peddlars; solicitors and timer
ant vendors;
Theatrical and other public
Restaurants;
Places where vinous, spirituous,
and malt liquors are sold;
Breweries;
Taxicabs, buses, and other We
hicles which carry passengers, freight
or merchandise for pay or which