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1106 HEALTH. [ART. 43
them to comply with any or all the requisitions of the notice, or other-
wise to abate the nuisance within a time specified in the order, or an
order both requiring abatement and prohibiting the recurrence of the
nuisance, as far as practicable.
1904, art. 43, sec. 76. 1888, art. 43, sec. 37. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 3.
105. Whenever the nuisance is created or maintained by more than
one person, firm or corporation, the said judge may make such order
with reference to the abatement of the same, and the person or persons
by whom the same shall be executed, and by whom and in what propor-
tions the cost of such abatement or work shall be paid, as to him may
seem reasonable; provided, that the said judge may suspend his final
determination on condition that the person, firm or corporation com-
plained of shall undertake to adopt within a reasonable time such means
as the said judge may deem practicable, and may order to be carried
into effect for abating such nuisance, or for mitigating or preventing
any effluvia prejudicial to health which may arise therefrom.
Ibid. sec. 77. 1888, art. 43, sec. 38. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 4.
106. Any person, firm or corporation not obeying an order made
by any one of the aforesaid judges, to comply with the requisitions of
the state board of health or otherwise, to abate the nuisance complained
of, shall, if all duo diligence has not been used to carry out such order,
bo liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars per day during his or
their default; and any person, firm or corporation knowingly or wilfully
acting contrary to an order of abatement or prohibition shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars per day during such contrary
action; and the person, corporation or corporations not obeying or
wilfully acting contrary to such order of the judge shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor; such offense in the city of Baltimore shall be prose-
cuted by the arrest of the offender for such offense, and by holding
dim. to appear in or committing him for trial in the criminal court of
Baltimore. which court shall have jurisdiction in the said cases to try
and dispose of the same in the same manner as other criminal cases
may be tried or proceeded with or disposed of; or such offense may
be prosecuted by indictment in such court; such offense in any county
if this State shall be prosecuted by the arrest of the offender for such
offense, and by holding him to bail to appear in or committing him
for trial in the circuit court for the county in which such offense was
committed, or by indictment in the circuit court for the county in
which such offense was committed. If any person shall be adjudged
guilty of any such offense by the court having jurisdiction in the
premises, he shall be sentenced to pay the fine or penalty herein
prescribed for such offense, and the costs of his or their prosecution;
and in default of payment thereof, he shall be committed to jail until
thence discharged by due course of law.
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