670 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1914, ch. 810, sec. 7.

275. When the State Board of Health finds, upon investigation,
that any of the waters of the State are being, or are liable to become,
polluted in a way dangerous to health, or so as to be in any way a
nuisance, and such condition is due to the fact that there is no, or only
a partial, system of public water supply, sewerage or refuse disposal in
a certain County, municipality, district, sub-division or locality; or in
case absence or incompleteness of a public system of water supply,
sewerage or refuse disposal in any County, municipality, district, sub-
division or locality is, in the opinion of the State Board of Health,
sufficiently prejudicial to the health or comfort of that or any other
County, municipality, district, sub-division or locality; then the State
Board of Health may issue an order to the effect that a public system
of water supply, sewerage or refuse disposal shall be installed and put
into operation, or the existing system completed, in that County, munic-
ipality, district, sub-division or locality, within a specified time; or
the Board may order the installation of such devices or the institution
of such methods, and enforce such measures or regulations, as it may
deem proper under the circumstances.

1914, ch. 810, sec. 8.

276. After April 16, 1914, the State, a County, municipality, dis-
trict, corporation, company, institution, or person shall not install a
system of water supply, sewerage or refuse disposal, for public use, nor
materially alter or extend any such existing system, without having
received a written permit from the State Board of Health so to do; nor
shall any permit for this purpose be issued until complete plans and
specifications for the installation, alteration or extension, together with
such information as the State Board of Health may require, have been
submitted and approved by the Board. All construction shall take
place in accordance with the approved plans. In case it shall become
necessary or desirable to make material changes in plans or specifica-
tions, such changed plans or specifications, together with a statement
of the reasons for the alterations, shall be submitted to the State Board
of Health, and no material changes shall be embodied in the actual con-
struction until they are approved by the Board and a permit issued
therefor. After completion of the work a certified copy of the plans in
full, showing the work as built, shall be filed with the State Board of
Health for permanent record. The State Board of Health shall be
empowered to make and enforce such rules and regulations regarding
the submission of plans for approval and record as it may deem reason-
able and proper. Before plans are drawn, or application filed, for a
prospective system of water supply, sewerage or refuse disposal, a pre-
liminary statement concerning the improvement may be made to the
State Board of Health, whereupon the State Board of Health shall, if
requested, outline the general requirements of the case conformity with
which would meet with the Board's approval. Whenever application