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disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars,
or imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or both, in the discre-
tion of the circuit court for the county or criminal court of Baltimore.

1904, art. 43, sec. 34. 1888, art. 43. sec. 19. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 5.

45. Any person, parent or guardian or other party who carelessly
carries about children or others affected with infectious diseases, or
who knowingly or wilfully introduces infectious persons into other
persons' houses, or permits children under his or her care to attend
any school, theatre, church or any public place where they will be
brought in contact with others, shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-
ing one hundred dollars for each and every such offense.

Ibid. sec. 35. 1888, art. 43, sec. 20. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 6.

46. Every owner or driver of a public conveyance shall immediately
provide for the disinfection of such conveyance in a manner to be
approved by the local health authority, after it has conveyed any one
suffering from a dangerous infectious disorder, or the corpse of any
one who has died from any such disorder; and if he fails to do so,
he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars; but
no such owner or driver shall be required to convey any person so
suffering until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss or
expense incurred by him in carrying into effect the provisions of this,
section.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1888, art. 43, sec. 21. 1888, ch. 155, sec. 7.

47. Any person who knowingly lets for hire any house, room or
part of a house in which any person has been suffering from any
dangerous infectious disorder, without having such house, room or
part of a house and all articles therein liable to retain infection disin-
fected to the satisfaction of a qualified medical practitioner, as testi-
fied by a certificate signed by him, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars; and any person letting for
hire or showing, for the purpose of letting for hire, any house or a
part of a house or room, who, being questioned by any person nego-
tiating for the hire of such house or part of a house or room as to
the fact of their being, or within six weeks previously having been
therein any person suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder,
knowingly makes a false answer to such questions shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding twelve months.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1888, art. 43, sec. 22. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 8.

48. When the body of any one who has died of any infectious
disease ia retained in a room in which persons live or sleep, or any
dead body which is in such a state as to endanger the health of the
inmates of the same house or room, any health officer or justice of
the peace may, on a certificate signed by a qualified medical practi-
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