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roll accounts or records of an employer. No employer, after
receiving notice of lien, as herein provided for, or after delivery
of such registered notice of lien has been refused by such em-
ployer, having knowledge of its import or reason to know its
import, shall thereafter pay to any individual named in such
notice any salary, wages, hire, remuneration or compensation
for personal services due at the time such notice is received or
receipt is refused, nor shall any employer pay any salary, wages,
hire, remuneration or compensation for personal services there-
after earned by or payable to such delinquent taxpayer so named
in the notice in excess of Fifteen Dollars ($15. 00) per week,
until the Comptroller shall notify such employer that the lien
has been satisfied or released. All salary, wages, hire, remunera-
tion or compensation for personal services due and unpaid to
any delinquent taxpayer named in any notice received or re-
fused, as above set forth, due at the time such notice is received
or refused, and all such salary, wages, hire and remuneration
or compensation for personal services earned by or payable to
such delinquent taxpayer thereafter, until the lien is fully
satisfied or released, shall be promptly paid to the Comptroller
by the employer. The Comptroller shall notify the employer
as soon as the lien has been satisfied or released. Every em-
ployer shall be personally liable to the State for any sums
which he shall pay to any employee named in any notice of lien
received or refused by said employer, except as herein provided.
Any employer violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500. 00),
or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or be both
fined and imprisoned.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.

CHAPTER 383.

(Senate Bill 84)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 89B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "State Roads", sub-
title "Duties and Powers", said new section to be known
as Section 49A and to follow immediately after Section 49
of said Article, providing a method for changing the status
of state and county roads.