ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1221

same is hereby, repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so

as to read as follows:

1. That hereafter no building or structure of any kind
whatsoever, exceeding in value one hundred dollars ($100)
shall be erected or constructed in Anne Arundel County by
any individual, firm or private corporation without a permit in
writing first being obtained from the County Commissioners of
said county, signed by the President of the Board and attested
by the Clerk thereof; the applicant for such permit to pay to
the County Commissioners the sum of twenty-five cents there-
for. And provided further that no application for permit
shall be considered, and no permit granted, unless and until
the applicant file with the Board of County Commissioners,
or the Clerk thereof, plans and specifications showing the
nature and character of the building proposed to be erected,
which application together with the said plains and specifica-
tions, shall first be passed on and approved by the Board of
County Commissioners before the issuing of any permit. And
provided, further, that the County Commissioners of said
county shall have, and they are hereby given, authority to
prescribe such regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, as
they may deem expedient for securing a full and fair consid-
eration of such applications before passing upon the same.

2. That any owner, agent, builder or contractor who shall
erect or undertake the erection of a building or structure of
any kind, in said county without having obtained a permit
as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the County Commis-
sioners for Anne Arundel County a fine or penalty of Twenty-
Five Dollars ($25), said fine or penalty to be a lien on the
building and to be collected by the said County Commissioners
in an action of debt brought in their name before any justice
of the peace of said county or by proceedings in equity for the
enforcement of such lien.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is here-
by declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1929.