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have the power, when actually engaged in fighting fire to enter
at their risk, and without liability for trespass, upon property
and within buildings, including private dwellings, near the
scene of the fire for purposes of carrying out whatever action
is necessary to extinguish said fire or prevent its spread.

(b) If such Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or Chief,
Captain or Lieutenant of a volunteer fire company, as desig-
nated above, after any inspection made under authority of this
sub-title, shall in its or his discretion deem that any such ac-
cumulation of material of a combustible nature increases the
danger of fire to the premises where such accumulation has
been permitted, or to the property adjacent thereto, such
Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or officer of a volun-
tary company as aforesaid, shall give notice in writing to the
occupant or occupants, or one of them of the premises where
such accumulation has been permitted, to remove or cause to
be removed from such premises such material of a combustible
nature within forty-eight hours after receipt by him or her of
such notice.

(c) In case such material of such combustible nature shall
not be removed within forty-eight hours after notice as afore-
said, such Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or other
officer as herein specified, may cause the same to be removed
from such premises, and thereupon cause notice in writing of
the cost and expenses of such removal to be given to such
occupant or occupants, or one of them, and also certify the
amount thereof to the City Treasurer, Town Treasurer or
County Treasurer of the city, to\vn or county, and in case such
costs and expenses shall not be paid to said treasurer within
thirty days after such notice, such city, town or county may
recover such costs and expenses in an action on the case
against such occupant or occupants.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.

CHAPTER 373
(House Bill 263)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments Section 281
of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-

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