2444                                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [Ch. 712

INSPECTION SERVICE AS PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SUBTITLE,
without a valid inspection certificate. Any person,
firm, partnership or corporation that shall operate a
boiler or pressure vessel without such inspection
certificate, or at a pressure exceeding that specified in
such inspection certificate, or interfere with or impede
the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, his authorized
representatives or the Board members in their official
duties under this subtitle, shall be guilty of a
violation of this subtitle and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be subject to a fine of not more than five thousand
dollars ($5,000.00) or to imprisonment for not sore than
five (5) years, or both such fine and imprisonment, for
each such offense. The offense created under this
section shall be in addition to, and not in substitution
for, any existing crimes or offenses under common law or
statute now in force in this State.

178.

(a) The owner or user of a boiler or pressure
vessel required by this subtitle to be inspected by the
chief boiler inspector, or his deputy boiler inspectors,
shall pay directly to the chief boiler inspector, upon
completion of inspection, fees in accordance with the
following schedule:

(3) Pressure Vessels:
Certificate Inspections —

Fees to be based on the maximum length

of the vessel times the maximum width or diameter
thereof.

Each pressure vessel subject to

inspection having a cross—sectional area of 50 sq. ft. or
less.....$10.00 [interior] INTERNAL; $6.00 [exterior}
EXTERNAL

For each additional 100 sq. ft. of area
in excess of 50 sq. ft..........$7.00 [interior]

INTERNAL; $2.00 [exterior] EXTERNAL

Not more than $50.00 shall be paid for
each inspection on any one vessel.

A group of pressure vessels, such as the rolls of a
paper machine or dryer operating as a single machine or
unit, shall be considered as one pressure vessel.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.