ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 635
and regulations in whole or in part, in which event the same
shall be valid and effective when recorded and published as
aforesaid. And the said County Commissioners, in addition
to the remedies provided for by this Act, shall have the right
to enforce said regulations and the provisions of this Act, and
prevent infractions thereof by an application to the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, in equity, for an injunction, and a
breach or threatened breach or violation of this Act, or of said
regulations shall be deemed sufficient cause in itself for the
issuance of such injunction when applied for, and no further
cause need be alleged or shown.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the respective inspector of
buildings appointed as aforesaid for the said election districts
shall respectively have the supervision of the construction of
all buildings erected in said respective election districts for
which they are appointed, and shall see that the rules and
regulations of the County Commissioners relating to the con-
struction of said buildings shall be complied with, and they
shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the
County Commissioners aforesaid not inconsistent with this
Act. Their compensation shall consist of the fees allowed
them for their services in issuing permits for the erection of
buildings; each of said inspectors of buildings shall be subject
to removal at any time in the discretion of the County Commis-
sioners; provided, that any person or persons violating any of
the rules and regulations so promulgated by the County Com-
missioners under the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county shall be fined not more than one hun-
dred dollars.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each
of said inspectors of buildings to visit and inspect all theatres,
hotels, public halls, churches, school houses and buildings used
for public assemblages and all manufactories employing twen-
ty-five or more persons, now erected, or that may be hereinafter
erected in said respective election districts, for which they shall
be appointed, for the purpose of ascertaining if said buildings
have the proper means of exit in case of fire or panic, and if,
on examination, any of the said inspectors of buildings shall
determine that said buildings as herein enumerated have not
the proper means of ex-it for the purposes herein prescribed,
then it shall be the duty of such inspector of buildings to
notify, in writing, 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 said inspector of buildings, he may deem
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