1136 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 483B. 1916, ch. 210, sec. 485.

536. It shall be the duty of every person separating, or assisting or
participating in separating, any such child from its mother, and of every
person placing, receiving or retaining or assisting in placing, receiving or
retaining any such child in a foster home or institution for the mainte-
nance of such child, before so doing, to investigate whether the mother of
such child be living and whether two physicians have signed the certificate
above provided for or whether a Court of competent jurisdiction, or the
Board of State Aid and Charities, has ordered such separation and the
placing of the child in such foster home or institution.

An. Code, see. 483C. 1916, ch. 210, sec. 486.

537. It shall be the duty of the person who shall receive any such child
in a foster home or institution for the maintenance of such child to file
forthwith the certificate above provided for with the Board of State Aid
and Charities, and the duty of every person who shall retain, or assist or
participate in retaining, any such child in a foster home or institution for
the maintenance of such child, to ascertain whether said certificate has
been so filed, and, if there be no such certificate, then to notify said Board
forthwith of the facts concerning the separation of said child from its
mother and the reception and retention of such child in said foster home
or institution.

An. Code, sec. 483D. 1916, ch. 210, sec. 487.

538. Whenever it shall come to the notice of said Board that any such
child has been separated from its mother or has been placed in an insti-
tution for the maintenance of such child, said Board shall cause an in-
vestigation to be made, and if it appear to the Board that this sub-title has
been violated it shall make known the facts to the authorities charged with
the enforcement of the criminal laws to the end that proceedings may be
started for the punishment of the person or persons who- may have violated
the sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 483E. 1916, ch. 210, sec. 488.

539. Every person who violates or fails to comply with any of the
provisions of this sub-title, and, every physician who knowingly makes a
false certificate as above provided for, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof may be fined not more than One hundred dol-
lars .($100.00), or imprisoned in jail for not more than one hundred days,
or both, in the discretion of the Court.

Lights on Vehicles on Public Highways.

An. Code, sec. 483P. 1918, ch. 53.

540. All vehicles in use or at rest on the public highways of this State
or of any city, county, town or village thereof, during the period of from
one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, shall display
not less than one white light so placed as to be clearly visible both from
the front and rear for a distance of at least two hundred feet; provided that