644                                 Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 181

street, and also in the case of small acreage and agricultural property
may determine upon such lengths of frontage for assessment as they
deem reasonable and fair. Front-foot assessment charges, as above
specified shall be a first lien on property against which they are as-
sessed, subject only to prior State and county charges and upon com-
plaint of the municipal authorities [before any justice of the peace]
in the District Court sitting in or the circuit court for the county in
which said land is situated shall be enforced by a judgment and
usual execution thereon. Said benefit charges shall be in default after
sixty days from the date of levy and said levy shall bear interest at
the rate of one (1) percent a month from and after the time said levy
is in default.

424. Penalty for violation of § § 409 to 427.

Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in §§ 409-427,
unless otherwise stated, shall be punishable [before any justice of the
peace or the circuit court of] in a court of competent jurisdiction
sitting in the county within which such offense is committed, and
action shall be brought by warrant or indictment upon the oath or
information of any municipal official, or any agent of municipal au-
thorities, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine
not exceeding $100 or 30 days in the county jail, or both, in the
discretion of the court. Where such act or omission is of a continu-
ing nature, and is persisted in, in violations of the provisions of
§§ 409-427, or of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a con-
viction for one offense shall not be a bar to a conviction for a continua-
tion of such offense subsequent to the first or any subsequent con-
viction.

669. Penalty.

Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this subtitle,
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable [by any trial magis-
trate or the circuit court of] in a court of competent jurisdiction
sitting in the county within which such offense is committed, and the
offender shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine 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 [magis-
trate or circuit] court. Where such act 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 regulation formulated thereunder, a con-
viction for one offense shall not be a bar to the conviction for a con-
tinuation of such offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding con-
viction.

Section 43. And be it further enacted, That Sections 75 and 186
of Article 43, Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Vol-
ume), title "Health," subtitles, respectively, "Vaccine Virus" and
"Adulteration of Food and Drink," be and they are hereby repealed.

Section 44. And be it further enacted, That Sections 25, 26, 80,
82, 83, 93, 94, 97, 98 and 103 of Article 48, Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Inspections," subtitles, re-
spectively, "Tobacco," "State Horticultural Department," "Tree and
Fruit Inspectors—'The Yellows,' " and "Honey Bees," be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
lows :