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the direction of the County Building Inspector perform such duties as
may be required in enforcing the Building Code for Montgomery County.

1927, ch. 703, sec. 3. 1929, ch. 414, sec. 3.

620. It shall be the duty of said inspector of buildings to visit and
inspect all theatres, hotels, public halls, churches, schoolhouses and build-
ings used for public assemblages and all manufactories employing twenty-
five or more persons, now erected, or that may be hereafter erected, far
the purpose of ascertaining if said buildings have the proper means of
exit in case of fire or panic and if, on examination he shall determine that
said buildings as herein enumerated have not the proper means of exit
for the purposes herein prescribed then it shall be the duty of such in-
spector of buildings to notify, in writing, the said owners, trustees, or
lessees of said buildings as herein enumerated, to so improve the same as
to provide the proper means of exit in case of fire or panic as in the judg-
ment of said inspector of buildings, he may deem proper and necessary.
If any person, having been notified, shall fail to comply with the said
notice, he shall, after the expiration of thirty days from the date of the
notice, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars for non-compliance
therewith, and twenty-five dollars per day for each and every day there-
after that he shall refuse to make such improvements, as prescribed in the
notice so given, said fines to be collected as other fines are collected by
the law; provided, however, that the person so ordered to make improve-
ments to his property as aforesaid shall have the right to appeal in writ-
ing to the County Commissioners of Montgomery County from such order
of the building inspector, and to adduce evidence and be heard thereon;
but the right to such appeal shall be considered waived unless the same
be taken within fifteen days from the service of such notice. It shall be
the duty of the Board of Education of Montgomery County to comply
with all the building regulations adopted by the County Commissioners
for the district embraced within the provisions of this Act, and it shall
further be the duty of the said Board of Education to provide suitable
fire escapes for all school buildings heretofore erected and now in use in
the whole of Montgomery County where said buildings are more than one
story in height, and also to provide suitable fire escapes for all said build-
ings now in course of construction or hereafter to be erected; and in the
event of the failure of said Board of Education to comply with the provi-
sions of this Act, the County Commissioners shall have the power to con-
tract for the doing of such work and shall deduct the cost thereof from
the amount levied for the support of schools of the county.

1927, ch. 703, sec 4. 1929, ch. 414, sec. 4.

621. It shall be the duty of the inspector of buildings to enforce the
execution of all existing or hereafter enacted building rules or regulations
relating to the construction, alteration and removal of buildings or other
structures, walls or parts of buildings or other structures.