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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 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.

204V. Any land owned by a church, and constituting the premises
occupied by such or its parsonage, and used exclusively for public
worship or for other religious or customary purposes of a church or
parsonage and not for investment, 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 excess of 150 feet hereinbefore
provided for.

204W. The Commission shall be, and it is hereby authorized to
prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the administration and
enforcement of this sub-title.

204X. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent of their inconsist-
ency, provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken as re-
stricting 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 NOTHING
IN THIS ACT SHALL BE CONSTRUED OR INTERPRETED TO
AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSION TO ACQUIRE BY CONDEM-
NATION ANY MUNICIPALLY OWNED OR OPERATED WATER
AND/OR SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES.

Sec. 2 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved April 15, 1957.

CHAPTER 750
(Senate Bill 589)

AN ACT to repeal Section 3 of Chapter 23 of the Laws of Maryland,
1870, and to enact in lieu thereof a new Section 3, to stand in the
place and stead of the section so repealed, relating generally to
the parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese
of Eastern.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 3 of Chapter 23 of the Laws of Maryland, 1870, be and

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

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