944 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 694

provide for the enforcement of such liens by sale of the prop-
erty, whether real or personal, or by suit at law for all such
expenses or any deficit after sale as aforesaid; to regulate the
building and maintenance of party walls, partitions, fences,
parapet and fire walls, smoke flues, fireplaces, hot-air flues,
boilers, kettles, furnaces, smokestacks and stovepipes j to pro-
vide for the inspection and regulation of the safe construction,
erection, repair, alteration, remodeling, removal or demolition,
in any manner, of all private and public buildings or struc-
tures, or parts thereof; and to compel the consumption and
prevention of smoke and make such regulations as may be
deemed necessary to prevent the same from becoming deleteri-
ous or offensive to health; to regulate^ the height, construction
and inspection of all new buildings or structures, or parts
thereof, hereafter erected in Baltimore County and the altera-
tion, repair, removal or demolition of any buildings or struc-
tures, or parts thereof, already erected, or hereafter to be
erected in Baltimore County; to regulate the limits within
which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay windows
or other structural ornaments to houses fronting on any of the
highways, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys of. Baltimore
County; to regulate and provide for the inspection of the
materials used and the manner of installing any and all
systems of electric wiring, piping, or conduit laying in any
building or structure, or part thereof, provided, that nothing
herein shall apply to any corporation subject to regulation
by the Public Service Commission of Maryland, and generally
to adopt and enforce for the whole of Baltimore County or for
thickly populated portions thereof, all necessary rules and
regulations for any or all the foregoing purposes.

The County Commissioners may exercise all or any part of
the powers granted hereunder, but no rules and regulations
Adopted by the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
under any of said powers shall be deemed valid or effective
until the same shall have been formally adopted by the said
County Commissioners at a regular meeting, and notice of the
adoption of rules and regulations shall thereafter have been
published at least two times in one or more newspapers of
general circulation in Baltimore County. Said notice may, in
the sole and absolute discretion of the County Commissioners,
contain a brief and concise statement or short summary of the
rules and regulations adopted. After formal adoption of rules
and regulations and publication of notice as herein provided,
all persons shall be deemed and taken to have notice thereof
and no actual notice need be proven. It shall be the duty of
the County Commissioners to cause said rules and regulations
to be available at its office for inspection by the public at any
time, and the County Commissioners are authorized to have