MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3505

1927, ch. 703, sec. 5. 1929, ch. 414, sec. 5.

622. It shall not be lawful for owners or lessees of any public hall,
church, school or place of amusement in said district of Montgomery
County to obstruct or allow to be obstructed by others, any of the aisles
or passage ways in the auditorium of said halls, churches or places of
amusements by placing therein any benches, chairs or stools or other arti-
cles that may prevent free ingress and egress during the hours that said
places may be open to the public. Said owners or lessees, or their agents,
are required to keep unlocked and unobstructed at all hours during the
time said halls, churches, schools or places of amusements are open to the
public, all doors giving ingress and egress, and no hindrance, such as locks,
bars or gratings of any kind shall be allowed to obstruct or prevent ingress
and easy egress through the same, and all doors of exit shall be so con-
structed as to open outwardly at such exits. Owners or lessees, or any
person holding under them, or their agents, violating any of the provisions
aforesaid shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof by
the Circuit Court or the Police Court for Montgomery County be fined
by the Court before which such conviction is had for any violation a sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be paid to the County Commission-
ers and recovered as other fines in this State. It shall not be lawful in
said district for any person, agent, owner or proprietor of any sweatshop,
manufacturing establishment or factory where four or more persons are
employed, to use any coal oil, gasoline or any other explosive or inflam-
mable compound for the purpose of lighting or heating in any form, ex-
cept under a special permit from the County Commissioners of Mont-
gomery County, granted for that purpose, for a period not exceeding one
year, the same to be renewed from time to time by said County Commis-
sioners in their discretion; and any person, agent, owner, or proprietor
violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic-
tion thereof be fined by the Court before which such conviction is had,
for every violation the sum of one hundred dollars and costs, and stand
committed until such fines and costs are paid. The owner or owners of
any such home or building used as a sweatshop, manufacturing establish-
ment or factory where four or more persons are employed in said district,
on other than the first floor of such house or building, and the owners or
lessees of any public hall, church, school or place of amusement in said
district where persons are supposed to congregate on other than the first
floor of the same, shall provide suitable fire escapes for the same; and if
any owner or owners, or lessees of any house or building so used shall fail
to make or provide a fire escape as aforesaid, such owner or owners, or
lessees, upon conviction as hereinabove provided, shall pay a fine of not
to exceed five hundred dollars to be recovered as other fines of this State,
or be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, or be subject to both
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.

1927, ch. 703, sec. 6. 1929, oh. 414, sec. 6.

623. No permit for the construction or erection of any building or
structure of any kind in the said district shall be granted unless adequate