The Council shall have the authority to create,
change or abolish offices and departments and to assign additional
functions to offices and departments, but not including the power
to create, change, abolish or discontinue any office or department
or to transfer any function of an office or department established
by this Council.
The Council shall have the power to pass all
such ordinances not contrary to the Constitution and laws of the State
of Maryland or this Charter as it may deem necessary for the good
government of the town; for the protection and preservation of the
town's property, rights and privileges; for the preservation of peace
and good order; for securing persons and property from violence, danger
or destruction; for the protection and promotion of the health, safety,
comfort, convenience, welfare and happiness of the residents of the
town and visitors thereto and sojourners therein.
The Council shall have complete supervision
over the financial administration of the town government; it shall
have the authority to prepare an annual budget, to supervise the disbursement
of all monies and to control all expenditures so as to assure that
the budget appropriations are not exceeded.
For the purpose of carrying out the powers granted
in this Article or elsewhere in this Charter, the Council may pass
all necessary ordinances. All the powers of the town shall be exercised
in the manner prescribed by this Charter or, if the manner be not
prescribed, then in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.
To insure the observance of the ordinances of
the town, the Council shall have the power to provide that violation
thereof shall be a misdemeanor and shall have the power to affix thereto
penalties of a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.) or
imprisonment for not exceeding ninety (90) days, or both such fine
and imprisonment. Any person subject to any fine, forfeiture or penalty
by virtue of any ordinance passed under the authority of this Charter
shall have the right of appeal within ten (10) days to the Circuit
Court of Wicomico County. The Council may provide that, where the
violation is of a continuing nature and is persisted in, a conviction
for one violation shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation
of the offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.