Ch. 232

LAWS OF MARYLAND

the boiler or pressure vessel is not located within the building,
the certificate shall be posted in a location convenient to the
boiler or pressure vessel inspected or in any place where it will
be accessible to interested parties. The payment of the fee
provided for in this section for the issuance of an inspection
certificate does not apply to the State of Maryland or any
agencies of State, county, or municipal government.

(d)  No inspection certificate issued for an insured boiler
or pressure vessel based upon a report of a special inspector
shall be valid after the boiler or pressure vessel for which it
was issued shall cease to be insured by a company duly authorized
by this State to provide such insurance.

(e)  The chief boiler inspector or his authorized
representative may at any time suspend an inspection certificate
when, in his opinion, the boiler or pressure vessel for which it
was issued cannot be operated without menace to the public safety
or when the boiler or pressure vessel is found not to comply with
the rules and regulations herein provided. Each suspension of an
inspection certificate shall continue in effect until such boiler
or pressure vessel shall have been made to conform to the rules
and regulations of the Board and until such inspection
certificate shall have been reinstated.

[(f) After twelve (12) months following the date on which
this subtitle becomes effective, it shall be unlawful for any
person, firm, partnership or corporation to operate in this State
a boiler or pressure vessel, except a pressure vessel covered by
owner or user 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 more 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.]

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(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, pays directly to the
chief boiler inspector, upon completion of inspection, fees in
accordance with the following schedule:

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