308 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

80. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to visit
and inspect all theaters, hotels, public halls, churches, school-
houses and buildings used for public assemblages, and all man-
ufactories employing twenty-five or more persons, now erected
or that may hereafter be erected in the City of Baltimore, for the
purpose of ascertaining if said buildings have the proper means
of exit in case of fire or panic; and if, on examination, the said
Inspector of Buildings shall determine that said buildings, as
herein enumerated, have not the proper means of exit for the
purposes herein prescribed, then it shall be the duty of the said
Inspector of Buildings to notify in writing, the owners, trustees
or lessees of said buildings that the proper means of exit do not
exist, and direct the said owners, trustees or lessees of said
buildings, as herein enumerated, to so improve the same as to
provide the proper means of exit, in case of fire or panic, as in
the judgment of the said Inspector of Buildings he may deem

proper and necessary.

81. If any person having been notified, as provided in the
preceding section, shall fail to comply with said notice, he shall,
after the expiration of thirty days from the date of said notice,
forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars for non-compliance
therewith, and twenty-five dollars per day for each and every
day thereafter that he shall refuse to make such improvements
as prescribed in the notice so given, as provided in the preced-
ing section; said fines to be collected as other fines are col-
lected by law.

82. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to en-
force the execution of all existing or hereafter enacted building
regulations and ordinances relating to the construction, alter-
ation and removal of buildings, or other structures, walls or
parts of buildings or other structures. The Inspector of Build-
ings shall have power to appoint such assistants and subordi-
nates, clerks and employees as are or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by ordinance, and fix their compensation, not to exceed
in the aggregate the amount allowed by ordinance.

83. The Commissioner of Street Cleaning shall be the head
of the fourth sub-department of Public Safety. He shall be
appointed by the Mayor in the mode prescribed in section