Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-04-10
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departments, and agencies estab
lished by this charter; to assign
additional functions or duties to
offices, departments, or agencies
established by this charter. but
not including the power to- dis
continue or assign to any other
office, department, or agency any
function or duty assigned by this
charter to particular office, de
partment, or agency.
40 To regulate the keeping
of dogs in the town and to pro
vide, wherever the county does
not license or tax dogs, for the
licensing and taxing of the same;
to provide for the disposition OF
homeless dogs and dogs on which
no license fee or taxes are paid
G8) To require the inspection
and licensing of elevators and to
prohibit their use when unsafe
or dangerous or without a Ii.
cenSe.
(19) To regulate or prevent the
storage of gunpowder, oil, or any
other explosive or combustible
matter; to regulate or prevent
the use of firearms, fireworks
bonfires, explosives, or any other
similar things which may endan.
ger persons or property.
(20) To compel the occupant
Of any premises, building or out
house situated in the town, when
the same has become filthy or UNI
wholesome, to abate or cleanse
the condition; and after reason.
able notice to the owners or oc-
cupants to authorize such work
to be done by the proper officers
and to assess the expense there.
OF against such property, making
it collectible by taxes or against
the occupant or occupants.
CD To levy, assess, and col
lect ad valorem property taxes;
to expend municipal fines for any
public purpose; to have general
management and control of the
finances of the town.
(22) 70 suppress fires and pre-.
vent the dangers thereof and to
establish and maintain a fire de-
partment; to contribute funds to
volunteer fire companies serving
the town; to inspect buildings
for the purpose of reducing fire
hazards, to issue regulations con-
corning fire hazards, and to for
bid and prohibit the use of fire
hazardous buildings and struc-
lures permanently or until the
conditions of town fire hazard re-
gulations are met; to install and
maintain fire plugs where and
as necessary, and to regulate their
use; and to take all other mea-
sureS necessary to control and
prevent fires in the town.
(23) To inspect and to require
the condemnation of. if unwhole-
some, and to regulate the sale of,
any food products.
(24) To grant and regulate
franchises to electric light com
panies, gas companies. telegraph
and telephone companies, transit
companies, taxicab companies,
and any other which NAV be
deemed advantageous and bene-
ficial to the town, subject, how
ever, to the limitations and pro-
visions of Article % of the An
notated Code of Maryland. No
franchise shall be granted for a
longer period than fifty years.
(25l To restrain and prohibit
gambling.
(26) To prevent the deposit of
any unwholesome sub stance
either on private or public prop
erty, and to compel its removal
to designated points; to require
Stops, garbage, ashes and other
waste or other unwholesome ma
terials to be removed to desig-
mated points, or to require the
occupants of the premises to
place them conveniently for re-
CD To accept gifts and
grants of Federal or of State
funds from the Federal or State
governments or any agency
thereof, and to expend the same
for any lawful public purpose,
agreeably to the conditions I'M
der which the gifts or grants
were made.
(28) To license, tax, regulate,
and prohibit haWkerS
and itinerant dealers, peddlers,
pawnbrokers and all other per
sons selling any article on the
streets of the town. and to re-
woke such licenses for cause.
(29) To protect and preserve
the health of the town and its
inhabitants; to appoint a public
health officer and to define and
regulate his powers and duties;
to prevent the Introduction of con-
tagious diseases into the town;
to establish quarantine regula-
tons, and to authorize the re-
moval and confinement of per-
sons having contagious or infec-
tious diseases; to prevent and re-
move all nuisances; to inspect,
and abate any buildings,
or places which cause
or may cause unsanitary condi-
tons or conditions detrimental to
provided, that nothing
herein shall be construed to af-
feet in any manner any of the
powers and duties of the State
Board of Health, the County
Board of Health, or any public,
general, or local law relating to
the subject of health.
(30) To regulate the number
ing of houses and lots and to
compel owners to renumber the
same or in default thereof to au.
thorize and require the same to