600 ARTICLE 3.

arrangement, be afforded reasonable access to the exits from said prem-
ises, buildings or structures in case of fire or that by reason of such dis-
position or arrangement the members of the Fire Department of the
County of Baltimore would be unnecessarily and unreasonably interfered
with or obstructed in the exercise of their duties in and about such prem-
ises, buildings or structures in the event of fire on or in the same, then
it shall be his duty, and he is hereby directed, to immediately make a
detailed report, in writing, of such condition so found to the Board of
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, and it shall be the duty of
said County Commissioners, if in the judgment of said Board such con-
dition is found to exist, to immediately give notice, an writing, to the
owner or owners, occupier or occupiers of such premises, buildings or
structures whereon or wherein such condition has been found to exist,
warning such interested person or persons of the existence of such con-
dition so found, and giving an apt description of the same; and said
Board may also order, in writing, that such condition be avoided, abated,
corrected or removed within the time and in the manner prescribed
in said notice; and if such owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, his,
her or their agent or agents consider themselves aggrieved by such order,
he, she or they, or if a body corporate, it may, within three days after
the receipt of said notice, appeal to said Board of County Commissioners
of Baltimore County, in writing, for the revocation of said order, where-
upon said Board shall grant a hearing, which hearing shall be had upon

said application within three days; and if said order be not revoked by

said Board of County Commissioners and the said owner or owners, occu-
pier or occupiers, his, her or their agent or agents shall neglect or refuse
to comply with the terms of said order, the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Baltimore County is hereby directed and empowered to remove
or correct the dangerous condition mentioned in said notice, at the ex-

ponse of said owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, and the cost of
removing or correcting said condition may be recovered by the County

Commissioners of Baltimore County from said owner or owners, occupier
or occupiers, by suit if necessary, and in addition thereto the said owner
or owners, occupier or occupiers who shall obstruct or refuse to permit
the free entrance to and the inspection of any premises, buildings or struc-
tures as provided for in Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance,* or neglect
or refuse to comply with the terms and conditions of the order herein
authorized to be issued by the Board of County Commissioners of Bal-
timore County unless the same should be revoked, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or more than five hundred dollars

($500.00).

1920. ch. 713, sec. 4. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 249.
249. Nothing iu this Act contained shall apply to or in any manner

affect any private dwelling, curtilage, building or outbuilding thereto

* "Act" evidently Intended. See secs. 246 and 247.