INSPECTIONS. 615

(1) "Serious Defects" refers to eggs, allowed as tolerance, having air
cell deeper than one-half (1/2) inch or movement of air cell more than
one-half (1/2) inch when twirled before the candler; or having white that
is not clear and not reasonably firm., or having yolk that is freely mobile
and with clearly visible germ development.

(2) "Retailer" is any person selling to consumer.

(3) "Consumer" means any person purchasing or otherwise acquiring
eggs for purposes other than re-sale, such as household, restaurant, bakery,
hotel, inn, hospital or any public or private institution, organization,
transportation company or any camp.

1935, ch. 375 sec. 130P.

130F. Any person, firm, association or corporation that violates any
of the provisions of this sub-title, or any rule or regulation made there-
under for its enforcement, or who fails or refuses to make proper reports,
or who reports falsely or with intent to deceive in answer to any of the
requirements of this sub-title, or who interferes with said State Board of
Agriculture, its agents or employees, in the enforcement of the provisions
of this sub-title, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall, for the first offense be subject to a fine of not
less than five ($5. 00) dollars nor more than fifty ($50. 00) dollars, and
for any second or subsequent offense shall be subject to a fine of not less
than fifty ($50. 00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100. 00) dollars.

1935, ch. 375, sec. 2.

130G. If any of the provisions of this sub-title or any sections or parts
thereof shall be held to be invalid for any reason, such holding shall not
be construed as affecting the validity of any remaining section or part of
a section of this sub-title. ¹

Examining Engineers.

139-143. These sections were included in the 1924 edition of the Code
on the assumption that Ch. 62 of 1910 made the law a general law. A re-
examination of Ch. 448 of 1892 seems to indicate that these sections really
apply to Baltimore City only and should not be included in the general
laws.

Fire Inspections.

1929, ch. 260, sec. 144. 1931, ch 285.

144. The members of the Board of Fire Commissioners and the Chief
of the Fire Department and his assistants, and any other officer or officers
or member or members of the Fire Department acting under the direction
of such Board or Chief of each of the cities of this State, and the Chief,
Chief Engineer, Captain or Lieutenant of any volunteer fire company, fire

¹ Sec. 3, ch. 375, acts of 1935, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.