THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     675

buildings hereafter erected in areas in Baltimore County which are
subject to flooding by tidewaters, surface waters or running streams;
to regulate the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect steps,
porticoes, bay windows or other structural ornaments to houses
fronting on any of the highways, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys
of Baltimore 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 struc-
ture, or part thereof, provided, that nothing herein 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 Baltimore County or for thickly populated portions thereof,
all necessary rules and regulations for any or all the foregoing
purposes.

The County Commissioners may exercise all or any part of the
powers granted hereunder, but no rules and regulations adopted by
the County Commissioners of Baltimore 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 Baltimore County. Said
notice may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the County Com-
missioners, contain a brief and concise statement or short summary
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 inspection by the public at any time, and the County
Commissioners are authorized to have printed and made available
for public distribution such number of copies of any rules and regu-
lations so adopted, as they may deem necessary and proper, and may
require the payment of a reasonable charge for any printed copies so
furnished. A printed certificate by the Chief Clerk of the County
Commissioners that any rules and regulations have been adopted
pursuant to the authority of this section, and that a copy of the
rules and regulations to which the certificate is attached is a true
and correct copy, shall be deemed and taken as sufficient to permit
the introduction of such rules and regulations as prima facie evi-
dence of their existence in any judicial proceedings. AH powers,
privileges, restrictions, duties and discretion vested in or imposed
upon the County Commissioners with respect to the adoption of any
rules or regulations, hereunder, shall apply with equal force and
effect to the change, repeal or amendment of any or all of said rules
and regulations, in whole or in part.

And the said County Commissioners, in addition to any remedies
and penalties otherwise prescribed by iaw, shall have the right to
enforce its rules and regulations and all other provisions of the build-
ing laws in Baltimore County, and prevent infractions thereof by an
application to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in equity, for
an injunction, and a breach or threatened breach or violation of any
provision of the building laws of Baltimore County, or of said rules
and regulations, shall constitute sufficient cause in itself for the is-
suance of such injunction when applied for, and no further cause
need be alleged or shown.