1522 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 679

430U. Every act or omission designated as a misde-
meanor in this sub-title, unless otherwise provided, shall
be punishable by any trial magistrate of the Circuit Court
of the county within which such offense is committed HAR-
FORD COUNTY, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be
subject to a fine of not exceeding One Hundred Dollars
($100. 00) or to confinement for not more than thirty (30)
days in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of the
magistrate or Circuit Court. Where such costs or omission
is of a continuing nature and is persisted in, in violation of
the provisions of this sub-title or of any rule or regulation
formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall
not be a bar to the conviction for a continuation of such
offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

430V. Any land owned by a church, and constituting the
premises occupied by such or its parsonage, and used ex-
clusively for public worship or for other religious or cus-
tomary purposes of a church or parsonage and not for in-
vestment, gain or other secular purposes, shall be exempt
from the benefit assessments provided for by this sub-title
in respect of a frontage not exceeding 150 feet. The Com-
mission may, in its discretion, exercise in each individual
case, grant or withhold a further exemption of the land so
owned and used in respect of any frontage thereof in ex-
cess of 150 feet hereinbefore provided for.

430W. The Commission shall be, and it is hereby au-
thorized to prescribe all needful rules and regulations for
the administration and enforcement of this sub-title.

430X. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent
of their inconsistency, provided that nothing herein con-
tained shall be taken as restricting any control which the
State Board of Health of Maryland and the Department of
Geology, Mines and Water Resources are empowered to
exercise within any sanitary districts.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved April 27, 1953.