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195.    Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this
sub-title, unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable by any trial
magistrate or the Circuit Court of the county within which such
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 (SO) days in the county jail,
or both, in the descretion 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 regula-
tion formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall not
be a bar to the conviction for a continuation of such offense subse-
quent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

196.   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 of 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.

197.   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.

197A. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent of their inconsis-
tency, 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 em-
powered to exercise within any sanitary districts.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT NOTH-
ING IN THIS ACT SHALL BE CONSTRUED OR INTERPRETED
TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSION TO ACQUIRE BY CON-
DEMNATION 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 817
(House Bill 860)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 489, 498, 499, 504 and 507 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1953 Edition
being Article 17 of the Code of Public Laws of Maryland), title
"Prince George's County", sub-title "County Treasurer", to repeal

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.