The town of Sharpsburg shall have the power to regulate burial grounds, crematories, and cemetaries, and to prohibit burial within the town limits if deemed advisable or if found necessary to protect the public health, and to condemn and close burial grounds and cemetaries in the thickly settled portions of the town, and when demanded by the public interest or public health, to remove or cause to be removed, bodies interred in such condemned or closed cemetaries and burial grounds, and shall cause them to be interred in a suitable place to be provided by the town, at its expense; and, whenever advisable, the town may condemn the land proposed to be used for the reinterring of bodies in the same manner as in condemnation of street, and to be used for such other purposes as may best subserve the interest of the town.
(b) The town of Sharpsburg shall also have the power by ordinance to authorize the destroying of clothing, bedding, furniture, and buildings infected with the germs of any infectious or contagious or dangerous disease, when the public health requires the destruction of the same, and may also in the same manner authorize the destruction and removal of buildings or other objects, after the same has been declared a nuisance and to be dangerous to the health or lives of the citizens of said town.
(c) to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the town, to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce them within the town and within one mile thereof.
(d) to require the owners of private drains, sinks, or privies to fill up, cleanse, drain, alter, relay repair, fix and improve the same as they may be ordered by resolution or ordinance of the board of commissioners, and to impose penalties upon persons failing to do the same. If there be no person in the town upon whom such an order can be served, the town then can have such work done, and cost of same shall be a lien on the property and taxed up against it and collected in such manner as the board of commissioners may determine.
(e) to prevent any person from bringing, depositing, or having within the town limits the carcass of any dead animal or other unwholesome substance or matter or filth of any kind, and to require prompt removal of the same, and impose all necessary penalties for the enforcement of such powers.
(f) to regulate, license, or prohibit butchers and prevent their slaughtering animals within the town limits, and to revoke their license for malconduct in trade; and to regulate, license, and restrain the sale of fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables, and the slaughter of animals; and to license and regulate or prohibit slaughter-houses within the town limits.
(g) the town of Sharpsburg shall have the right to have inspected the premises of all persons, at any hour during the daytime, in the interest of public health, and for the purpose of making said inspection the officers or agents of the town duly authorized to do so shall have the right to enter upon the premises of any person at any hour during the daytime to make said inspection. Whenever notice is given by any officer or employee of the town inspecting any premises that said premises need cleaning, the owner or tenant of such premises shall cause the night-soil or other refuse matter thereon to be removed, or the same shall be removed at the instance of the proper authorities of the town and the cost thereof shall be paid by the owner or tenant, and failure to do so shall subject said owner or tenant to the penalties to be prescribed by ordinance, and said persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.