ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1073

dollars1 ($3. 00) for each new installation which shall be
paid to the County Treasurer and credited to the Police
Fund, but no charge shall be made for a permit for the
remodeling of an existing plant. The Sanitary Inspector
of Montgomery County is hereby authorized and directed
to inspect the construction of said cesspool, septic tank,
privy, or other plants for the disposal of human excreta;
provided further that if any existing cesspool or septic
tank shall be found to be inadequate by overflowing the
same shall constitute a nuisance, and the owner or owners
of such property on which said nuisance is located, shall be
required to enlarge and/or reconstruct said cesspool or
septic tank; provided further that any person or persons
violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof by the Cir-
cuit Court or Police Court of Montgomery County, shall be
fined not more than One Hundred dollars ($100. 00) or sen-
tenced to not more than ninety (90) days in jail or both.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is de-
clared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 562.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 27 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Crimes
and Punishments, " sub-title "Jurisdiction, Procedure and
Sentence, " to follow immediately after Section 549 and
to be designated as Section 549a of said Article, said new
section to provide for the filing of criminal informations
by the State's Attorneys of the various counties of the
State and of the City of Baltimore, in cases where de-
fendants, charged with a misdemeanor or misdemeanors,
make known their desire to enter a plea of guilty to such
charge or charges, and eliminating the necessity of hav-
ing an indictment returned by the Grand Jury in such
case or cases, and reserving to Justices of the Peace or