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1882, ch. 74. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 129.

80. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to visit and in-
spect all theatres, hotels, public halls, churches, school-houses and build-
ings used for public assemblages, and all manufactories employing twenty-
five or more persons, now erected or that may hereafter be erected in the
City of Baltimore for the purpose of ascertaining if said buildings have
the proper means of exit in case of fire or panic; and if, on examination,
the said Inspector of Buildings, 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 the said Inspector of Build-
ings to notify in writing, the owners, trustees or lessees of said buildings
that the proper means of exit do not exist, and direct 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 judgment of the said Inspector of Buildings he may deem proper
and necessary.

1882, ch. 74. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 130.

81. If any person having been notified, as provided in the preceding
section, shall fail to comply with said notice, he shall, after the expiration
of thirty days from the date of said 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 thereafter that he shall refuse to make
such improvements as prescribed in the notice so given, as provided in the
preceding section; said fines to be collected as other fines are collected
by law.

1898, ch. 123.

82. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to enforce the
execution of all existing or hereafter enacted building regulations and
ordinances relating to the construction, alteration and removal of build-
ings, or other structures, walls or parts of buildings or other structures.
The Inspector of Buildings shall have power to appoint such assistants
and subordinates, clerks and employees as are or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by ordinance, and fix their compensation, not to exceed in the
aggregate the amount allowed by ordinance.

COMMISSIONER OF STREET CLEANING.*

1898, ch. 123.

83. The Commissioner of Street Cleaning shall be the head of the
fourth sub-department of Public Safety. He shall be appointed by the
Mayor in the mode prescribed in Section 25 of this Charter, and hold his
office as therein provided. He shall be charged with the duty of cleaning
the streets, as well as the cleaning of the sewers, subject as to the latter
to the direction and orders of the Highways Engineer; and shall perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances not inconsistent with

*Now Engineer of Street Cleaning. See sec. 85A, subsec. 7.