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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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1608 ARTICLE 43.

any person suing in the name of the State, as debts of like amount are by
law recoverable; provided, that the state board of health or other health
authority, through its executive officers, together with its deputies, agents
and assistants, shall be charged with the enforcement of sections 183 and
184, and shall have full access to all places of business, factories, mills,
buildings, carriages, cars, vessels, barrels, tanks and packages of whatever
kind used in the manufacture and transportation and sale of any vinegar
or any adulteration or imitation thereof, or any package in which vinegar
is mixed with articles of food. They shall also have power and authority
to open any package, barrel or vessel containing any vinegar or any adultera-
tion or imitation thereof which may be manufactured, sold or exposed for
sale, and they shall also have full power and authority to take samples there-
from for analysis upon tendering the value of said samples; and all charges,
accounts and expenses of the department for the enforcement of sections
183 and 184 through the said executive officer or officers and his or their
deputies, agents, assistants, chemist and counsel employed by him or them
in carrying out said provisions shall be paid by the treasurer of the State in
the same manner as other accounts and expenses of the department are paid;
and all penalties and costs for the violation thereof shall be paid to the secre-
tary of the state board of health, and by him immediately covered into the
state treasury.

An. Code, sec. 183. 1904, sec. 138. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51D.

186. Every person who violates any of the provisions of sections 183
and 184 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars; provided, that all fines and costs, including the expense
of inspection and analysis imposed under this section shall be covered into
the state treasury, and all vinegar sold or offered for sale in violation thereof
shall be subject to forfeiture and spoliation.

An. Code, sec. 164. 1904, sec. 139. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51E.

187. Magistrates and justices of the peace throughout the State shall
have jurisdiction to hear and determine actions arising for violations of
these provisions, and to hold for court or impose the penalties provided
therein, subject to appeal, as the law shall direct.

An. Code, sec. 165. 1904, sec. 140. 1904, ch. 653, sec. 51F.

188. The sum of five hundred dollars is appropriated to carry out the
aforegoing provisions. The money so appropriated shall be paid by the
treasurer of the State upon the warrant of the comptroller, to the state board
of health for the purposes herein contemplated.

An. Code, sec. 166. 1910, ch. 156, sec. 140A (p. 147).

189. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation
within this State to manufacture for sale, produce for sale, expose for sale
or sell any article of food, water, drug or disinfectant which is adulterated,
misbranded or insufficiently labeled within the meaning of sections 189 to

 

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