THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 257

or by suit at law for all such expenses or any deficit after
sale as aforesaid; to regulate the building and maintenance
of party walls, partitions, fences, parapet and fire walls,
smoke flues, fireplaces, hot air flues, boilers, kettles, furnaces,
smokestacks and stovepipes; to provide for the inspection
and regulation of the safe construction, erection, repair, al-
teration, remodeling, removal or demolition, in any manner,
of all private and public buildings or structures, or parts
thereof; and to compel the consumption and prevention of
smoke and make such regulations as may be deemed necessary
to prevent the same from becoming deleterious or offensive
to health; to regulate the height, construction and inspection
of all new buildings or structures, or parts thereof, hereafter
erected in Howard County and the alteration, repair, removal
or demolition of any buildings or structures, or parts thereof,
already erected, or hereafter to be erected in Howard County;
to regulate the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect
steps, porticoes, bay windows or other structural ornaments
or adjuncts to houses fronting on any of the highways, streets,
avenues, lanes or alleys of Howard County; to regulate and
provide for the inspection of the materials used and the
manner of installing any and all systems of electric wiring,
piping, or conduit laying in any building or structure, or part
thereof, provided, that nothing hereby shall apply to any
corporation subject to regulation by the Public Service Com-
mission of Maryland, and generally to adopt and enforce for
the whole of Howard County or for thickly populated por-
tions thereof, all necessary rules and regulations for any or
all the aforegoing purposes.

The County Commissioners may exercise all or any part
of the powers granted hereunder, but no rules and regula-
tions adopted by the County Commissioners of Howard County
under any of said powers shall be deemed valid or effective
until the same shall have been formally adopted by the said
County Commissioners at a regular meeting, and notice of
the adoption of rules and regulations shall thereafter have
been published at least two times in one or more newspapers
of general circulation in Howard County. Said notice may,
in the sole and absolute discretion of the County Commis-
sioners, contain a brief and concise statement or short sum-
mary of the rules and regulations adopted. After formal
adoption of rules and regulations and publication of notice
as herein provided, all persons shall be deemed and taken
to have notice thereof and no actual notice need be proven.
It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to cause said
rules and regulations to be available at its office for inspec-
tion by the public at any time, and the County Commissioners
are authorized to have printed and made available for public
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