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of the peace or the Circuit Court of the county within which such offense
is committed, and action shall be brought by warrant or indictment upon^;
the oath or information of any municipal official, or any agent of municipal
authorities, and. the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine not
exceeding $100 or 30 days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of
the Court. Where such act or omission is of a continuing nature, and is
persisted in, in violation of the provisions of Sections 393-410, or of
any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense
shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continuation of such offense subse-
quent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348P. 1931, ch. 96.

408. That the Mayor and Council or the Commissioners or other
governing body of any municipality before issuing bonds for any of said
improvements, shall first at a regular municipal election, or at a special
municipal election called for that purpose after at least twenty days' notice
by hand bills or otherwise to the voters of said municipality, submit to
the voters of the municipality proposing the improvements the question
whether or not the said bonds shall be issued, and upon the ballots to be
used at said municipal election there shall be printed or written the words
"For...........Bonds," and "Against...........Bonds," and if a majority

of the votes cast upon said question shall be "For...........Bonds," then

the Mayor and Council or the Commissioners or other governing body
of the municipality shall issue the bonds authorized by Sections 393-
410; but if a majority of the votes cast upon said question shall be
"Against...........Bonds," the said bonds shall not be issued, but the

Mayor and Council or the Commissioners or other governing body, how-
ever, shall have the power to submit the question at succeeding regular
and/or special municipal elections in the manner herein provided until a
majority of the votes cast on said question shall be "For..........Bonds,"

at which time they shall exercise the power to issue the bonds authorized
by said Sections 393-410.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348Q.

409. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of
Sections 393-410 are hereby repealed to the extent of their inconsistency,
provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken as repealing any part
of Sections 372-391 of this Article, or Chapter 122 of the Acts of the
Maryland Legislature of 1918, nor as restricting any control which the
State Board of Health of Maryland is empowered to exercise.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 348R.

410. Nothing in Sections 393-410 shall be taken as affecting any
power or duty accorded to or imposed upon the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, the Anne Arundel County Sanitary Commission,
the Baltimore County Metropolitan District or Baltimore City, which
agencies are hereby specifically excepted from the provisions of said
sections.