WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 145

146B. The County Commissioners are further authorized
and empowered by resolution or ordinance to adopt and from
time to time to amend a Fire Prevention Code and other
rules and regulations to provide (1) for protection against
fires and for the prevention, abatement and removal of fire
and life hazards (2) for the powers and duties of the Fire
Prevention Bureau, (3) for the incorporation by reference
into said Code of any code or part thereof prepared by
any governmental agency or any trade or professional
association for general distribution in printed form as
a standard or model on any subject, relating to fire pre-
vention, fire hazards or flammable or dangerous sub-
stances, provided that subsequent amendments to any
such model or standard code- shall not be effective until
specifically incorporated into such Fire Prevention Code, (4)
for the procedures for the enforcement of the provisions of
said Code and for penalties for the violation of said Fire
Prevention Code and any order issued under the authority
thereof and any ordinance, resolution or regulation for the
prevention of fires or for the prevention, abatement or removal
of fire hazards.

The County Commissioners may exercise all or any part of
the powers granted hereunder, but no rule or regulation
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 County
Commissioners at a regular meeting and notice of the adop-
tion of the rules and regulations shall have been published at
least two times thereafter 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
the 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 their office for inspection by the
public at any time and the County Commissioners are author-
ized to have printed and made available for public distribu-
tion such number of copies of any rule and regulation so
adopted as they may deem necessary and proper and may
require the payment of a reasonable charge for any printed
copy so furnished. A printed certificate by the Secretary
of the County Commissioners that any rules and regulations
have been adopted pursuant to the authority of this section
and that a copy of the rules and regulations to which the
certificate is attached is a true and correct copy shall be
deemed and taken as sufficient to permit the introduction of
such rules and regulations as prima facie evidence of their