J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            1275

96.    Duties of Building Inspector of Prince George's County.

(a)  General duties.—It is the duty of the building inspector in
the portion of the Regional District within Prince George's County
to enforce the execution of all existing or hereafter enacted build-
ing rules and regulations relating to the construction, alteration,,
and removal of buildings or other structures, walls, or parts of
buildings or other structures.

(b)  Specific duties.—It also is the duty of the building inspector
in the portion of the Regional District within Prince George's Coun-
ty to visit and inspect all theaters, hotels, restaurants, public halls,
churches, school houses, and buildings used for public assemblages
and all manufactories employing twenty-five (25) or more persons,
now erected, or that may be hereafter erected, for the purpose of
ascertaining if said buildings have the proper means of exits in case
of fire or panic. If, on examination, he shall determine that said
buildings as herein enumerated do not have the proper means of
exit for the purposes prescribed then it is his duty to notify, in writ-
ing, the owners, trustees, or lessees of said buildings so to improve
the same as to provide the proper means of exit in case of fire or
panic as, in the judgment of the building inspector, he may deem
proper and necessary.

(c)  Enforcement provisions.—If any person, having been so no-
tified, shall fail to comply with the said notice within a period of
thirty days from the date of the notice, he then shall forfeit and
pay a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for non-compliance
therewith and twenty-five additional dollars ($25.00) per day for
each and every day thereafter that he shall refuse to make the im-
provements as prescribed in the notice so given. The fines shall be
collected as other fines are collected by law. The person so ordered
to make improvements to his property has the right to appeal in
writing to the County Commissioners of Prince George's County
from the order of the building inspector and to adduce evidence and
be heard thereon; but the right to such appeal shall be considered
waived unless it has been taken within fifteen (15) days from the
service of the notice.

(d)  Board of Education of Prince George's County.—It is the
duty of the Board of Education of Prince George's County to comply
with all the building regulations adopted by the County Commis-
sioners for that portion of the Regional District within Prince
George's County. It is further the duty of the Board of Education
to provide suitable fire escapes for all school buildings heretofore
erected and now in use where said buildings are more than one story
in height, and also to provide suitable fire escapes for all said build-
ings now in course of construction or hereafter to be erected. In
the event of the failure of the Board of Education to comply with
the provisions of this sub-title, the County Commissioners of Prince
George's County has the power to contract for the doing of such
work and may deduct the cost thereof from the amount levied for
the support of schools in Prince George's County.

97.    Building Permits Require Access Roads.

No permit for the erection of any building within a sub-division
within the Regional District shall be issued unless the road giving