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offense is committed, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be sub-
ject 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,
violation of the provisions of this sub-title or of any rule or regula-
tion 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.

898.    The Commission shall be, and it is hereby authorized to pre-
scribe all needful rules and regulations for the administration and
enforcement of this sub-title.

899.   (a) This sub-title shall constitute full and complete authority,
without regard to the provisions of any other law for the doing of
the acts and things herein authorized, and shall be liberally construed
to effect the purposes hereof; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be taken as restricting any control which the State
Board of Health of Maryland, the Department of Geology, Mines
and Water Resources and the Water Pollution Control Commission
are empowered to exercise over or within any District.

(b)   The foregoing sections of this sub-title shall be deemed to
provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the
things authorized thereby, and shall be regarded as supplemental and
additional to powers conferred by other laws, and shall not be re-
garded as in derogation of any powers now existing.

(c) All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this
sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

900.    The provisions of this sub-title are severable, and it is the
intention to confer the whole or any part of the powers herein pro-
vided for, and if any of the provisions of this sub-title shall be held
unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision
of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining pro-
visions of this sub-title. It is hereby declared to be the legislative
intent that this sub-title would have been adopted had such uncon-
stitutional provision not been included therein.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 10, 1957.

CHAPTER 695
(House Bill 804)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 38 (m) of
Article 87 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956 Supplement),

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.