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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 856

8-118.

(a)    [The building inspector, in the portion of the
Regional District within Prince George's County, shall
enforce the execution of all building rules and
regulations relating to the construction, alteration, and
removal of buildings or other structures, walls, or parts
of buildings or other structures.

(b)    The building inspector, in the portion of the
Regional District within Prince George's County, also
shall visit and inspect all theaters, hotels,
restaurants, public halls, churches, school houses, and
buildings used for public assemblages and all
manufactories employing 25 or more persons for the
purpose of ascertaining if the buildings have the proper
means of exits in case of fire or panic. If, on
examination, he determines that the buildings as herein
enumerated do not have the proper means of exit for the
purposes described, then he shall notify, in writing, the
owners, trustees, or lessees of the buildings to improve
them to provide the proper means of exit in case of fire
or panic as, in the judgment of the building inspector,
he deems proper and necessary.

(c)    If any person, having been so notified, fails
to comply with the notice within a period of 30 days from
the date of the notice, he shall forfeit and pay a fine
of $100 for non-compliance therewith and $2 5 per day for
each and every day thereafter that he refuses to make the
improvements described in the notice given. The fines
shall be collected as other fines are collected by law.
The person 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 an appeal shall be
considered waived unless it has been taken within 15 days
from the service of the notice.

(d) ] The Board of Education of Prince George's
County shall comply with all the buildings regulations
adopted by the County Commissioners for that portion of
the Regional District within Prince George's County. The
Board of Education also shall provide suitable fire
escapes for all school buildings in use if the buildings
are more than one story in height, and also provide
suitable fire escapes for all the buildings now in course
of construction or hereafter erected. If the Board of
Education fails to comply with the provisions of this
subheading, the County Commissioners of Prince George's
County may contract for the doing of the work and deduct
the cost thereof from the amount levied for the support
of schools in Prince George's County.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.