284 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 30

Industry COMMISSION ON PREVAILING WAGES OF
THE STATE OF MARYLAND or its officers and agents.

81. 82. Records. The contractor or sub-contractor
shall keep or cause to be kept an accurate record showing
the names and occupation of all laborers, workmen and
mechanics employed by him in connection with the said
public work, and showing also the actual per diem wages
paid to each of such workers, which record shall be open
at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the State, or of
any such Department, commission, bureau or agency.

82. 83. Penalty. Any officer, agent or representative
of the State who wilfully shall violate or omit to comply
with any of the provisions of this sub-title, and any con-
tractor or sub-contractor, or agent or representative there-
of, doing public work as aforesaid, who shall neglect to
keep, or cause to be kept, an accurate record of the names,
occupation and actual wages paid to each laborer, work-
man or mechanic employed by him in connection with said
public work, or who shall refuse to allow access to such
records at any reasonable hour to any person authorized to
inspect them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon con-
viction thereof he shall be punished by a fine of not ex-
ceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprison-

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SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT
THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 80, 81, 82 AND 83
SHALL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL SIXTY DAYS
AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT AND
NOTHING IN THIS ACT SHALL BE DEEMED TO AF-
FECT ANY CONTRACTS ALREADY IN EXISTENCE
OR ANY CONTRACTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ADVER-
TISED FOR BIDS PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE
OF SECTIONS 80, 81, 82 AND 83.

SEC. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT
THIS ACT SHALL TAKE EFFECT JUNE 1, 1950.

Approved March 28, 1950.