The town of Sharpsburg shall have power to provide means for the protection against and the extinguishment of conflagrations, and for the regulation, maintenance, and support of a fire department; and for the purpose of guarding against the calamity of fires, may prescribe fire limits and may limit or prohibit the erection, building, placing, or repairing of wooden buildings within such limits of said town as may by ordinance be designated and prescribed as fire limits, and may also within said limits prohibit the moving or putting up of wooden buildings from without said limits, and may also prohibit the removal of any wooden buildings from one place to another within said limits, and may direct and prescribe that all buildings within the limits so designated in the ordinance as fire limits shall be made or constructed of fireproof material, the kind, character, extent, and quality of which may by ordinance be prescribed and fixed; also may prohibit the repairing of wooden buildings in fire limits, when the same shall have been damaged to within fifty per cent of the value thereof, and may prescribe the manner of finding such damages, and may also declare all dilapidated buildings to be nuisances, and require same to be repaired, removed, or abated in such manner as the board of commissioners may prescribe and may declare all wooden buildings within the town which they may deem dangerous to contiguous buildings or which may cause or promote fire, to be nuisances, and cause the same to be removed in such manner as may be required, at the expense of the owner, and may further prescribe limits within which only fireproof roofing may be used, and may impose a penalty for violations of such rules and regulations.