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firm or corporation shall actually begin the erection, construction, remod-
eling or repair of any building or buildings until the permit blanks have
been returned to the Clerk to the County Commissioners, and approved
by him, and the permit actually issued and paid for. Failure to mail
or receive the blank or permits herein provided for shall in no way affect
prosecutions under the provisions of this Act. It is the purpose and
intention of this section to require all persons, firms or corporations who
contemplate erecting or constructing, or remodeling or repairing any and
all buildings of any nature, kind or description, before doing so, to obtain
a permit as in this Act provided. And if any person, firm or corporation
shall proceed to erect, construct, remodel or repair any building where
the value of the same, as to new buildings, shall be two hundred dollars
or more at the time of completion, or the cost of remodeling or repairing
any building, the value of which after completion shall exceed five hun-
dred dollars ($500), without first having made application for and ob-
tained the permit as herein provided, it shall then be and become the
duty of the County Commissioners through their Clerk, or the town offi-
cials, as the case may be, to immediately swear out a warrant for said
person, firm or corporation, and have him or them taken before some Jus-
tice of the Peace of said County, whose duty it shall be to try said per-
son, firm or corporation, who upon conviction shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars
($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), and shall stand committed to
the Prince George's County jail until said fine and costs are paid, not to
exceed an imprisonment of thirty days, the said fine so imposed to be
paid over to the County Commissioners of Prince George's County.

This section shall not apply to necessary repairs of buildings in said
County where the value of said repairs does not exceed the sum of five
hundred dollars ($500).

CAPITOL HEIGHTS.

1910, ch. 513. 1912, ch. 545. 1923, ch. 52, sec. 1.

143. The citizens, of the town of Capitol Heights, Prince George's
County, Maryland, are hereby made a body corporate by the name and
style of "Mayor and Common Council of Capitol Heights," and by that
name may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and have and use
a common seal.

1922, ch. 52, sec. 2.

144. The corporate limits of said town shall be defined and laid out
on plat of Otway B. Zantzinger's sub-division, known as Capitol Heights,
recorded in Liber J. W. B. No. 5, folios 676 and 677K of the Land
Records of Prince George's County, Maryland.

1922, ch. 52, sec. 3.

145. The government of said town shall be vested in a Mayor and six
Common Councilmen. The term of office of the Mayor and each Common
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