Ch. 6

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Application for such license shall be made to the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry by any member of a family
desiring to do such work in any room or apartment of a tenement
or dwelling house. Such application shall designate the location
of the room or apartment, the number of persons to be employed
therein, the street and number of and the full name and address
of the owner of the building in which the room or apartment is
located, and shall be signed by the applicant. Application
blanks shall be prepared and furnished by the Commissioner of
Labor and Industry in such form as the Commissioner may
determine.

Upon receipt of such application the Commissioner of Labor
and Industry shall consult the records of the local health
department or board or other appropriate local authority charged
with the duty of sanitary inspection, and if such records show
the presence of any infectious, contagious or communicable
disease, or the existence of any unsanitary conditions in or
about such room or apartment, the Commissioner of Labor and
Industry may, without making an inspection of the premises, deny
such application for a license until such time as the records of
the said department, board or other local authority show that the
said premises are free from all such infectious, contagious or
communicable disease and from all unsanitary conditions. Before,
however, any such license is granted, an inspection of the room
or apartment sought to be licensed must be made by the duly
authorized inspector of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry
and a statement must be filed in his office as a matter of public
record to the effect that the records of the local health
department or board or other local authority charged with the
duty of sanitary inspection do not show the existence of any
infectious, contagious or communicable disease or of any
unsanitary conditions in or about said room or apartment. Such
statement must further show the results of the inspection of such
premises and must be dated and signed in ink by the inspector
responsible therefor. If the Commissioner of Labor and Industry
[ascertain] ASCERTAINS that such room or apartment is free from
infectious, contagious or communicable disease and is in proper
sanitary condition he shall grant a license permitting the use of
such room or apartment for the purpose of manufacturing and
stating the number of persons allowed to work therein. An
inspection of each licensed tenement or dwelling house workshop
shall be made not less than once in every six months to determine
whether or not the conditions under which such license was
granted and all laws relating to such premises are being complied
with.

No article shall be manufactured in whole or in part,
altered, repaired or finished in any room or apartment of a
tenement or dwelling house where there is or has been a case of
infectious, contagious or communicable disease until such time as
the local department or board of health shall certify to the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry that such disease has

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