1538                                     LAWS OF MARYLAND                                 Ch.732

VESSELS, except that, when the Board has granted an extension of the period
between certificate inspections as permitted by § 176 of this subtitle, the certificate
shall be valid for a grace period of two (2) months beyond the expiration date of
the current certificate. Certificates shall be posted under glass in the room
containing the boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL inspected. If the boiler OR
PRESSURE VESSEL is not located within the building, the certificate shall be
posted in a location convenient to the boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL inspected
or in any place where it will be accessible to interested parties.

(c)   No inspection certificate issued for an insured boiler OR PRESSURE
VESSEL based upon a report of a special inspector shall be valid after the boiler
OR PRESSURE VESSEL for which it was issued shall cease to be insured by a
company duly authorized by this State to provide such insurance.

(d)  The chief boiler inspector or his authorized representative may at any time
suspend an inspection certificate when, in his opinion, the boiler OR PRESSURE
VESSEL for which it was issued cannot be operated without menace to the public
safety or when the boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL is found not to comply with
the rules and regulations herein provided. Each suspension of an inspection
certificate shall continue in effect until such boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL shall
have been made to conform to the rules and regulations of the Board and until
such inspection certificate shall have been reinstated.

(e)  After twelve (12) months following the date on which this subtitle becomes
effective, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to
operate in this State a boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL without a valid inspection
certificate. Any person, firm, partnership or corporation that shall operate a boiler
OR PRESSURE VESSEL without such inspection certificate, or at a pressure
exceeding that specified in such inspection certificate, or interfere with or impede
the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, his authorized representatives or the
Board members in their official duties under this subtitle, shall be guilty of a
violation of this subtitle and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of
not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or to imprisonment for not more
than five (5) years, or both such fine and imprisonment, for each such offense. The
offense created under this section shall be in addition to, and not in substitution
for, any existing crimes or offenses under common law or statute now in force in
this State.

178.

(a) The owner or user of a boiler OR PRESSURE VESSEL required by this
subtitle to be inspected by the chief boiler inspector, or his deputy boiler
inspectors, shall pay directly to the chief boiler inspector, upon completion of
inspection, fees in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) Power boilers and high pressure, high tempera-
ture water boilers:
Certificate inspections-
Boilers of 50 sq. ft. of heating surface

or less ............................$ 7.00

Boilers over 50 sq. ft. of heating
surface and less than 4,000 sq. ft.

of heating surface ................ 15.00

Boilers of 4,000 sq. ft. of heating surface or
more and less than 10,000 sq. ft. of heating

surface ........................... 20.00

Boilers of 10,000 sq. ft. of heating surface or
more .............................. 25.00