The council in its discretion shall have full power and authority to enact ordinances for the county as it may deem necessary for the peace, good government, health, safety or welfare of the county, and which are not inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution or public general laws or public local laws of the state, subject, however, to the following limitations and restrictions:
(a) That the council shall not have power to license, regulate, prohibit or submit to local option, the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages.
(b) That nothing in this section contained shall be construed as a grant of additional powers to the council to authorize the issuance or renewal of any bonds, certificates, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the county, except as now or hereafter provided by public general or local law. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 2-23; 1945, ch. 947.)
Editor's note-Section 2-12 is referred to in Cade v. Montgomery County, 83 Md. App. 419, 575 A.2d 744 (1990), cert. denied 320 Md. 350, 578 A.2d 190 (1990), U.S. cert. denied 112 L.Ed.2d 1047 (1991), as authority for the County's enactment of County Code Ch. 30C, Motor Vehicle Towing From Private Property. Section 2-12 [formerly §2-23] is cited in County Council for Montgomery County v. Investors Funding Corporation, 270 Md. 403, 312 A.2d 225 (1973); Scull v. Montgomery County Citizens League, 249 Md. 271, 239 A.2d (1968); and in Montgomery Citizens League v. Greenhalgh, 253 Md. 151, 252 A.2d 242 (1969).
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