1694 ARTICLE 39A

material need not be completed until the fifteenth day of the succeeding
April, provided the total fine per mile for any designated hazard in any
year shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).

An. Code, 1924, sec. 40. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 29.

40. Any person, firm or corporation operating a railroad within this
State by other than steam motive power, shall, once a year, within the
period specified in Section 34 of this Article, clear of inflammable material
those parts of its rights of way upon which the State Department of For-
estry shall have found that a fire hazard exists, or will probably be caused
by failure to clear such parts of such right of way, and shall have so notified
such person, firm or corporation not later than the first day of September
of the year in which such period shall commence. Any such person, firm
or corporation which shall fail so to clear such parts of its right of way shall
be fined at the rate of five ($5.00) dollars per mile or fraction thereof,
measured along the tracks upon such right of way for each day after the
fifteenth of April, succeeding the date of such notice during which such
parts of its right of way shall remain uncleared, to be collected as prescribed
by Section 1 of Article 38 of the Code of Public General Laws, provided
the total fine per mile for any designated hazard in any year shall not
exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).

An. Code, 1924, sec. 41. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 30.

41. Compliance with the provisions of Sections 34 to 40, inclusive, of
this Article, or any part thereof, shall not operate as a bar to the recovery
of any damage for which any person, firm or corporation so complying
would or might otherwise be liable.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 42. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 2.

42. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed to the extent of the inconsistency. None of the
provisions of this Act shall apply to Somerset County or to Queen Anne's
County.

Orange Grove Footbridge.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 43. 1924, ch. 238, sec. 21A.

43. The State Department of Forestry is hereby authorized and di-
rected to accept and take title by good and sufficient deed in the name of the
State of Maryland for the use of said department, of the necessary ap-
proaches and rights of way for a certain footbridge to replace the footbridge
spanning the Patapsco River below Ellicott City known as the Orange
Grove Footbridge, connecting the State Forest Reservations in Balti-
more and Howard Counties; and said department is further authorized
and directed to accept in like manner from the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County and the County Commissioners of Howard County a
good and sufficient deed for said footbridge when constructed and com-
pleted by said Boards of County Commissioners.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 44. 1924, ch. 238, sec. 21B.

44. Upon the conveyance of said bridge and said necessary approaches
and rights of way to the State of Maryland for the use of said Department