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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="5-207" title_number="5" title_name="Powers" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Enumeration of Express Law Making Powers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A municipality may establish and maintain:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a fire department; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a police force.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A municipality may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>provide for the removal of fire hazards;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>control the use and handling of dangerous and explosive materials; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>prevent the discharge of firearms or other explosive instruments.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A municipality may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>pay rewards for information relating to crime committed in the municipality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>prohibit vagrancy, vice, gambling, and houses of prostitution in the municipality;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>enforce all ordinances relating to disorderly conduct and nuisances equally:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>within the municipality; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>up to one–half mile outside the municipal limits, except where there is a conflict with the powers of another municipality; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>prohibit minors from being on the streets and in public places at certain hours of the night.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
