1602 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 703

not inconsistent with this Act, provided, that any person or
persons violating any of the rules and regulations so promul-
gated by the County Commissioners under the provisions of
this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof in the Circuit Court or Police Coujt for Montgomery
County, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 3, And be it further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of said inspector of buildings to visit and inspect all thea-
tres, hotels, public halls, churches, schoolhouses and buildings
used for public assemblages and all manufactories employing
twenty-five or more persons, now erected, or that may be here-
after erected, for the purpose of ascertaining if said build-
ings have the proper means of exit in case of fire or panic and
if, on examination he 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 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 proper and necessary. If any per-
son, having been notified, shall fail to comply with the said
notice, he shall, after the expiration of thirty days from the
date of the 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, said
fines to be collected as other fines are collected by the law;
provided, however, that the person so ordered to make improve-
ments to his property as aforesaid shall have the right to appeal
in writing to the County Commissioners of Montgomery Coun-
ty from such order of the building inspector, and to adduce
evidence and be heard thereon; but the right to such appeal
shall be considered waived unless the same be taken within
fifteen days from the service of such notice. It shall be the
duty of the Board of Education of Montgomery County to
comply with all the building regulations adopted by the County
Commissioners for the district embraced within the provisions
of this Act, and it shall further be the duty of the said Board
of Education to provide suitable fire escapes for all school
buildings heretofore erected and now in use in the whole of
Montgomery County where said buildings are more than one-
story in height, and also to provide suitable fire escapes for all