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11 o'clock in the morning) to remove and clear away, or cause
to be removed or cleared away the same from the foot pave-
ments fronting the respective houses, stores, shops, stables,
churches, and lots occupied by such buildings, unoccupied
buildings and unoccupied lots, fronting on such highway in
such manner as not to obstruct the passage of water in the
gutters along said highway under a penalty of $2. 00 for every
neglect besides the expense of cleaning the same away by the
Roads' Supervisor of Election District in which such property
shall be located. And it shall further be the duty of the said
persons, natural and corporate, their agents, or servants to keep
the gutter or gutters leading to and the pavements or side-
walks situate in front or at the rear or sides of such tenements
above enumerated free from ice and every obstruction of what-
ever nature, and every such owner, tenant, or person having in
charge such premises who shall fail to remove any such ob-
struction by ice or any other cause within three hours after
notification duly served upon him, her or them by any agent
of the County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall for-
feit and pay $2. 00 for such failure and $1. 00 additional for
each and every day the obstruction may continue.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person
natural or corporate upon whom the duty of removing snow
and ice is imposed by the first section of this Act shall fail to
remove the same as therein provided, then the Road Super-
visor of the District in which the property owned, managed or
in the charge of such person may be, shall cause such snow or
ice to be removed and shall certify the cost of such removal to
the County Commissioners of Baltimore County and such costs
of removal shall be paid to said County Commissioners by such
person or persons so failing to remove such ice or snow and
such costs and the fines hereinbefore provided for may be re-
covered by the County Commissioners of Baltimore County in
an action before a Justice of the Peace as other fines and for-
feitures are recovered.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 101.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 166
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Corporations, " sub-title "Insurance Companies, " and to