WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                        Ch. 5

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
terminated and that the room or apartment has been properly
disinfected, if disinfection after such disease is required by
law or by the rules and regulations of such department or board.
No person, firm or corporation shall hire, employ or contract
with any person to manufacture in whole or in part, alter, repair
or finish any articles in any room or apartment of any tenement
or dwelling house unless a license has been issued therefor as
aforesaid. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling
house shall be used for the [manufacture] PURPOSE OF
MANUFACTURING, in whole or in part, altering, repairing or
finishing of any article except by the immediate members of the
family living therein, which shall be limited to a husband and
wife, their children or the children of either. No room or
apartment in any tenement or dwelling house shall be used for the
[manufacture] PURPOSE OF MANUFACTURING, in whole or in part,
altering, repairing or finishing of any articles unless such room
or apartment contains at least five hundred cubic feet of air
space for every person working therein.

Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the
employment of a tailor or seamstress by any person or family for
the purpose of making, altering, repairing or finishing any
article of wearing apparel for the use of such person or family.
This section shall not apply to any workshop on the main or
ground floor of any tenement or dwelling house, which is not used
for sleeping or cooking, which has a separate entrance to the
street and which is entirely separate from the rest of the
building.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Stylistic error an omitted comma in Article
27, § 326.

Occurred: Prior to 1957 codification of the Annotated
Code of Maryland.

328.

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