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accumulate, or where such board or members thereof, chief,
assistants, or other officer aforesaid, has reason to believe that
such material of a combustible nature has accumulated or is
liable to be accumulated.

If such Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or Chief,
Captain or Lieutenant of a Volunteer Fire Company, as desig-
nated above, after any inspection made under authority of this
Act, shall in its or his discretion deem that any such accumula-
lation of material of a combustible nature increases the danger
of fire to the premises where such accumulation has been per-
mitted, or to the property adjacent thereto, such Board or Chief
of the Fire Department, or officer of a Volunteer Company as
aforesaid, shall give notice in writing to the occupant or occu-
pants, or one of them, of the premises where such accumula-
tion has been permitted, to remove or cause to be removed from
such premises such material of a combustible nature within
forty-eight hours after receipt by him or her of such notice.
In case such material of such a combustible nature shall not be
removed within forty-eight hours after notice as aforesaid,
such Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or other officer
as herein specified, may cause the same to be removed from
such premises, and thereupon cause notice in writing of the
cost and expenses of such removal to be given to such occupant
or occupants, or one of them, and also certify the amount there-
of to the City Treasurer, Town Treasurer or County Treasurer
of the city, town or county and in case such costs and expenses,
shall not be paid to said treasurer within thirty days after such
notice, such city, town or county may recover such costs and
expenses in an action on the case against such occupant or
occupants.

145. Any person refusing to allow or hindering or obstruct-
ing such inspection shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not exceeding;
thirty days for each such offense.

146. Any person who shall refuse or neglect to remove
such material of a combustible nature at the expiration of the
forty-eight hours' notice provided in Section 1 hereof shall be
fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for
each such offense.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.