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(c) The County Commissioners and the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Salisbury are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt
and promulgate such rules and regulations as they may, in
their discretion, determine to be necessary to protect the pub-
lice from fire hazards and other dangers due to unsafe and dan-
gerous conditions with respect to any and all buildings in
Wicomico County or the City of Salisbury. Such regula-
lations may provide for the repair or removal of dangerous
structures, the removal of trash and other materials which
may increase fire hazards or interfere with the proper and
efficient operation of firemen in extinguishing fires or in
preventing the spread of fires.

(d) It shall be the duty of the Fire Marshal to enforce
the rules and regulations adopted under the provisions of this
section, to order the removal of any fire hazard and to make
any repairs and improvements to comply with said rules and
regulations, and to report to the said County Commissioners
and Mayor and Council and the State's Attorney all violations
of such rules and regulations and the names of all persons
who refuse to comply with his orders for repairs, removal of
fire hazards, etc. Any person ordered by the Fire Marshal
to make any repairs or improvements shall have the right of
appeal to said County Commissioners and said Mayor and
Council with right of appeal to the courts from the action of
said County Commissioners and said Mayor and Council.

(e) Any person violating the provisions of this section or
the rules and regulations promulgated under its authority
or any lawful order of the Fire Marshal shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject
to a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100) for
each such violation.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed upon by 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 April 27, 1945.

CHAPTER 837.
(House Bill 727)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Char-