218                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 177

publications thereof. Such standard specifications and data so re-
ferred to shall have the same force and effect as if printed in its
entirety in said Building Code of Howard County.

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 Howard 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 Howard County. Said notice
may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the County Commissioners,
contain a brief and concise statement or short summary of the rules
and regulations adopted. After formal adoption of rules and regula-
tions 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 author-
ized to have printed and made available for public distribution such
number of copies of any rules and regulations 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 evidence of their existence in any judicial
proceedings. All powers, privileges, restrictions, duties and discre-
tion 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 law, shall have the right to
enforce its rules and regulations and all other provisions of the
building laws in Howard County, and prevent infractions thereof by
an application to the Circuit Court for Howard County, in equity,
for an injunction, and a breach or threatened breach or violation
of any provision of the building laws of Howard County, or of said
rules and regulations, shall constitute sufficient cause in itself for the
issuance of such injunction when applied for, and no further
cause[d] need be alleged or shown.

Any person, firm, corporation, or officer of a corporation who
shall violate any rules or regulation promulgated by the County Com-
missioners under the authority of this section, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
$50.00 nor more than $500.00 or imprisoned in jail for not less than
ten days nor more than three months, or both, at the discretion of
the Court, but no conviction hereunder shall in any manner relieve
any person of any other penalties hereunder or the necessity of com-
pliance with all other applicable rules, regulations and laws.

33F. No permit for the construction or erection of any building
or structure of any kind in Howard County shall be granted to any