WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1395

to cause said rules and regulations adopted by it as aforesaid
to be so recorded in a book or books kept by it for that pur-
pose in its office and when so recorded all persons shall be
deemed and taken to have notice thereof, and no actual
notice need be proven. And it shall further be the duty of
the said Commission to cause to be printed for general dis-
tribution a sufficient number of copies of said rules and regu-
lations when so adopted and recorded, as aforesaid, and said
printed copy of such regulations shall be deemed prima facie
evidence of such rules and regulations whenever it may be
necessary to prove the existence of the same in any judicial
proceedings. The rules and regulations now in force in the
respective portions of the District within Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties shall be deemed to have been
adopted as aforesaid. The power is given said Commission
to change or to amend from time to time, as may be neces-
sary, any such rules and regulations, in whole or in part,
within the District in Montgomery and/or Prince George's
County, in which event, the same shall be valid and effective
when recorded as aforesaid. The said Commission, in addi-
tion to the remedies provided for by this Act shall have the
right to enforce said regulations and provisions hereof, and to
prevent infractions thereof by an application to the Circuit
Court for the County in which said enforcement shall be
needed or said infractions occur, in equity, for an injunc-
tion; and a breach or threatened breach or violation thereof
or of said regulations shall be deemed sufficient cause in it-
self for the issuance of such injunction when applied for,
and no further cause need be alleged or sworn; and provided
further that the Commission is hereby authorized to exempt
from the provisions hereof, such town or towns or special
taxing areas in which the Commission may determine that
the building regulations and the enforcement thereof are
adequate and equally effective as are the regulations passed
by said Commission under the provisions hereof. The Com-
mission is hereby given full power and authority to issue
permits for the construction, repair, erection, or remodeling
of all houses, buildings, or other structures in the Maryland-
Washington Regional District; and no person shall construct,
repair, erect or remodel any such structure without first
obtaining such a permit and paying therefor the fee pre-
scribed by the Commission in accordance with the authority
hereinafter set forth.

All rules and regulations adopted by the Commission un-
der the provisions of this section and commonly called "The
Building Code" shall be operative in, and operate upon, the
Maryland-Washington Regional District as the same is or