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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 797

Preventing
obstruction
of streets,
lanes, alleys
of Baltimore
city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the paragraph entitled "Buildings," of Section 6
of Article 4, entitled " City of Baltimore," of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, as the same was repealed
eand re-enacted with amendments by Chapter 616 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland for the year of 1904,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows: Buildings. To direct
in what part of Baltimore city buildings of wood shall not
be erected; to regulate and establish the size of bricks that
are to be used in the houses to be built in the city of Balti-
more; to provide for the entry into and examination of all
dwellings, lots, yards, enclosures and buildings, cars, boats-
and vehicles of every description; to ascertain their condi-
tion for health, cleanliness and safety; to regulate the build-
ing and maintenance of party walls, partition fences, parapet
and fire walls, smoke flues, fire places, hot air flues, boilers,
kettles, smokestacks and stovepipes, To provide for and

Inspection of
public and
private
buildings.

regulate the safe construction, inspection and repairs of all
private and public buildings within the city; and to compel
the consumption of smoke and make such regulations as
may be deemed necessary to prevent the same from becoming
deleterious or offensive to health. To take down and
remove, or. make safe and secure, any and all buildings,
walls, structures or superstructures, at the expense of the
owners thereof, that are or may become dangerous, or to
require the owners or their agents to take down and remove
them, or put them in a safe and sound condition at their
own expense; to make any and all costs and expenses
incurred in about the taking down and removal, or making
safe and secure of all buildings, walls, structures or super-
structures, as aforesaid, a lien upon the interests of the
owners in the land or improvements, or both, and to
provide for the enforcement of such liens by sale of the
property, whether real or personal; to regulate, restrain
or prohibit the erection of wooden or frame buildings within
the present limits of the city, and to remove the same at the
owner's expense when erected or suffered to remain contrary
to law or ordinance; to regulate the height, construction and
inspection of all new buildings hereafter erected in said city ;
and the alteration and repairs of any buildings already-
erected or hereafter to be erected in said city; and the ordi-