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who has tuberculosis, any acute or active venereal disease, any communic-
able or loathsome akin disease or any other communicable disease.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 5.

5. No owner, proprietor or manager of any laundry, nor any person
employed therein, shall be permitted to sprinkle any article, fabric or other
material being washed or laundered in said laundry with water or other
liquid substance ejected from the mouth or blown out of any device con-
necting or coming into contact with the mouth of any such person.
See art. 27, sec. 299.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 6.

6. No person, firm or corporation owning, maintaining, conducting or
operating any laundry in which wearing apparel, household linen, towels,
bedding or any other fabric or washable materials are received and treated
through the process of washing shall remove or cause to be removed from
such premises any laundered article until the same has been thoroughly
sterilized by keeping it in the washing machine, or other vessel provided
for that purpose and the water therein has been brought to a boiling tem-
perature or maintained at a temperature of one hundred and fifty (150)
degrees Fahrenheit for at least five (5) minutes; or by subjecting it to live
steam under pressure; or by keeping it in a drying house or drying tumb-
ler in which the temperature is not less than two hundred (200) degrees
Fahrenheit for a period of not less than five (5) minutes; or by passing it
through any ironing machine where the ironing surface is at a temperature
of not less than two hundred (200) degrees Fahrenheit; except in the case
of silks and woolens or other fabrics or materials which would be injured
by the aforegoing processes.

1927. ch. 510, sec. 7.

7. No person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining a laundry,
nor any employee thereof shall take or receive any fabrics or materials to
be washed or laundered from any person, firm or corporation, without the
authority of such person, firm, or corporation.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 7A.

8. No person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining a laundry,
nor any employee thereof shall operate said laundry or collect wearing ap-
parel or articles of any kind whatsoever to be washed or laundered or de-
liver the same after having been washed or laundered, between the hours
of 12 o'clock midnight and 6 o'clock A. M. of each and every day.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 8.

9. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this
Article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty ($50. 00)
dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100. 00) dollars for each offense.

1927, ch. 510, sec. 9.

10. This Article shall apply only to Baltimore City and Baltimore
County.