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is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows:

Section 15H. Any person or persons who may desire to cut
down or trim any roadside tree shall make application to the
State Board of Forestry for a permit; except in the two fol-
lowing cases, (1) that where trees are uprooted or branches of
trees broken in such manner that they shall come in contact
with telephone, telegraph, electric light or other wires carry-
ing electric current, or where such trees or branches shall en-
danger persons or property, such trees or branches of trees as
the case may be, may be removed in such an emergency with-
out first obtaining a permit from the State Board of Forestry,
and (2) that trees standing within the right-of-way of unim-
proved public roads which have not been surfaced with either
stone, shell, gravel, concrete, brick, asphalt or other improved
surface may be cut down and removed by the abutting land
owner for his own use without first obtaining a permit.

Any person or persons who shall cut down, trim, mutilate or
in any manner injure any roadside tree, except as provided
for in this section, without a permit from the State Board of
Forestry or its duly authorized representative shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punishable by
a fine of not less than five dollars or more than fifty dollars
for each offense, which fine shall be payable to the State Board
of Forestry for the purposes described in this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and sixteen.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 549.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 160C
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Charles County, " sub-title "Roads and Bridges, " as said
Section was enacted by Chapter 50 of the Acts of 1910, and
amended by Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1912.

SRC TION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 160C of the Code of Public Local Laws
of. Maryland, title "Charles County, " sub-title "Roads and
Bridges, " as said section was enacted by Chapter 50 of the