1346 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 713

CHAPTER 713.

AN ACT to authorize the Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-
ment of Baltimore County to enter and inspect all public
buildings, stores, warehouses, factories or any other
structures or premises used for commercial purposes
within the limits of Baltimore County for the purpose of
estimating the fire conditions on and in the same and
providing regulations for the prevention'of and protec-
tion against fire conditions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of
Baltimore County be, and he is hereby, authorized and em-
powered to at any and all reasonable times, enter upon and
into any and all public buildings, stores, warehouses, factories
or any other structues or premises used for commercial pur-
poses within the limits of Baltimore County, for the purpose
of examining and inspecting the same, to ascertain the con-
ditions thereon or therein with regard to the presence or
arrangement of deposits of, or any article, materials, sub-
stances, goods, wares, merchandise or any other thing or
things, which may, in his opinion tend to create danger of or
from fire, or unnecessarily and unreasonably interfere with the
work of the Fire Department, of Baltimore County, in the
event of fire on or in said premises, buildings or structures,
or the loss of life of the occupants or other persons on or in
said premises, buildings or structures in the event of fire; also
with regard to the condition, size, arrangement and efficiency
of any and all appliances for fire prevention or for protec-
tion against fire on or in such premises, buildings or
structures.

SEC. 2. 'And be it further enacted, That the said Chief
Engineer of the Fire Department of Baltimore County be,
and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to direct such
and as many members of the Fire Department of the County
of Baltimore as may, in his judgment, be necessary to make the
inspections hereinbefore provided for, who shall report, in
writing, the results of, their inspections so made to the said
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of Baltimore County,
and for the purpose of making which inspections such mem-
bers of the Fire Department of Baltimore County as may be
so directed and designated, are hereby authorized and clothed