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they may deem necessary; they shall act in conjunction with the state
board of health and shall report to said board such facts in. reference
to the sanitary condition of their respective counties as they may deem
important or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules
and regulations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within
their respective jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of this article;
they may regulate all fees and charges in connection with their own
regulations and shall establish the salaries of their respective county
health officers on the following maximum basis: not exceeding, in

counties having a population of 15,000 or less, $150 per annum, with
an additional allowance of not more than $50 per annum for each 5,000

of population in excess of 15,000.

1904, art. 43, sec. 26. 1902, chs. 475, 515, sec. 11 A.

37. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner or any two
or more persons affected thereby shall make a complaint in writing
to a local board of health that any water course, well, spring, open
ditch, gutter, cess-pool, drain, privy-pit, pig-pen or other place or any
accumulation or deposit of any substance is in a condition dangerous
to human health, the said local board of health shall immediately insti-
tute an investigation, and if it shall decide that the place or thing
complained of is in such a condition as to injuriously affect the life
or health of any person, the said board shall serve a notice in writing
on the person, firm or corporation by whose act, default or sufferance
the place or thing complained of is in such a condition as to injuriously
affect the life or health of any person, the said board shall serve a
notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation by whose act,

default or sufferance the place or thing complained of arises or exists,
requiring-him or them to abate the same within a time to be specified
in the notice, and any person, firm or corporation refusing or neglect-
ing to comply with the requirements in such notice shall be guilty of

a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than one nor
more than ten dollars for the first offense, and for each subsequent

offense in reference to the same place or thing be fined not exceeding
twenty-five dollars. This section not to apply to Baltimore county.

Ibid, sec 27. 1888, art. 43, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 5.

38. Such local board of health shall take cognizance of all unhealthy
nuisances within the limits of its sanitary jurisdiction; and any person
or corporation refusing or neglecting, after due notice, to comply with
the requirements of the said board in this respect shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding fifty dollars; all questions arising between local
boards as to jurisdiction or their relative duty in the abatement of any
particular nuisance shall be referred to the state board of health for
settlement.

See sec. 103. et seq.