ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 997

6. No person, firm or corporation owning, maintaining,
conducting or operating any laundry in which wearing ap-
parel, household linen, towels, bedding or any other fabric
or washable materials are received and treated through the
process of washing shall remove or cause to be removed from
such premises any laundered article until the same has been
thoroughly sterilized by keeping it in the washing machine,
or other vessel provided for that purpose and the water
therein has been brought to a boiling temperature or main-
tained at a temperature of one hundred and fifty (150) de-
grees Fahrenheit for at least five (5) minutes; or by sub-
jecting it to live steam under pressure; or by keeping it in
a drying house or drying tumbler in which the temperature
is not less than two hundred (200) degrees Fahrenheit for a
period of not less than five (5) minutes; or by passing it
through any ironing machine where the ironing surface is
at a temperature of not less than two hundred (200) degrees
Fahrenheit; except in the case of silks and woolens or other
fabrics or materials which would be injured by the afore-
going processes.

7. No person, firm or corporation operating or maintain-
ing a laundry, nor any employee thereof shall take or receive
any fabrics or materials to be washed or laundered from
any person, firm or corporation, without the authority of
such person, firm or corporation.

T-A. No person, firm or corporation operating or main-
taining a laundry, nor any employee thereof shall operate
said laundry or collect wearing apparel or articles of any
kind whatsoever to be washed or laundered or deliver the
same after having been washed or laundered, between the
hours of 12 o'clock midnight and 6 o'clock A. M. of each
and every day.

8. Any person, firm or corporation violating the pro-
visions of this Article, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not less than Fifty ($50. 00) Dollars nor more than One
Hundred ($100. 00) Dollars for each offense.

9. This Article shall apply only to Baltimore City and
Baltimore County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.