92 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 39

provide penalties for the violation of any Fire Prevention
Code or any ordinance, resolution or regulation for the pre-
vention of fires or the removal of fire hazards. Said Fire
Prevention Code may incorporate by reference 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 prevention, fire hazards or flammable or dangerous
substances, provided that subsequent amendments to any
such model, or standard code shall not be effective until
specifically incorporated into such Fire Prevention Code.

No ordinance or resolution shall be adopted by the County
Commissioners under the powers conferred by this section
until a copy of such proposal has been advertised in one or
more newspapers of general circulation published in the
County, not less than three weeks with a date specified
therein, giving an opportunity for hearing any protests or
objections thereto and stating that copies of such proposed
ordinance or resolution may be obtained on application to
the clerk to the County Commissioners.

Provided, however, that no such code, ordinance or resolution
shall apply within the corporate limits of any municipality
which has adopted or may adopt a Fire Prevention Code from
the effective date of the adoption of such Fire Prevention
Code.

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

Approved June 1, 1948.

CHAPTER 39
(House Bill 3)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 23A of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland as the same was enacted by
Chapter 731 of the Acts of 1947, title "Corporations—Mu-
nicipal", to be known as Section 4 and to follow immediately
after Section 3 of said Article authorizing the legislative
body of every incorporated municipality to adopt a fire pre-
vention code and to provide for protection against fire and
the removal of fire hazards and to provide penalties for the
violation thereof.