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1912, ch. 464, sec. 4.

494. Any person or persons, firm or corporation who shall engage in
the business of loaning money upon personal property and shall charge
therefor under any pretext whatsoever any sum in excess of the usual legal
rate of interest without first taking out a pawnbroker's license shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction shall be
punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for the first offense and by a.
like fine and also by imprisonment in jail for thirty days for the second
and each subsequent offense against the provisions of this statute. Any
licensed pawnbroker who shall in any way or by any subterfuge or device
violate any of the provisions of this statute upon trial and conviction shall
be punishable by a fine of one hundred dollars for the first offense and a
like fine and also by imprisonment in jail for thirty days for a second
and each subsequent offense. One-half of the fine hereby imposed shall
be paid to the informer or person causing the arrest and conviction.*

PLUMBING AND SEWER DRAINAGE.

1904, ch. 206, sec. 1. 1912, ch. 168. sec. 1.

495. That the Board of Health of each incorporated city or town in
Allegany County, by and with the approval of the Mayor of said city or
town, respectively, shall biennially appoint for each and evey said city
or town an inspector of plumbing for sanitary purposes, who shall be-
under the direction and supervision of and subject to all rules and regu-
lations of the respective Board of Health by which he is appointed.

1904, ch. 206, sec. 2. 1912, ch. 168. sec. 2.

496. That said Inspector of Plumbing shall be a practical plumber,
selected from among plumbers who are well informed as to practical
plumbing and skilled in the matters pertaining to the sanitary regulations
concerning plumbing work.

Said Inspector of Plumbing to receive as full compensation for his
services a salary as fixed by the Mayor and Council of the respective city
or town so employing him; said salary to be paid the Inspector of Plumb-
ing by the city or town in which he is appointed.

1904, ch. 206, sec. 3. 1912, ch. 168, sec. 3.

497. That no pipes now in use or hereafter to be used to drain any
matter, soil or liquid from any house, store, part of house or part of store
or any building or part of building whatsoever into any well, sink, sewer
or other outlet whatsoever for the conducting or reception of any sub-
stance except pure water, or into a sewer, private or public, or any stream,
river or creek in Allegany County, shall be put up, constructed, altered
or repaired, without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Board of
Health of the said city or town in which the work is to be constructed or

*Sec. 5 of ch. 464, 1912, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.