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ART. XXXIX] PATUXENT. 283
in any manner any German carp, or leather carp, or any carp of any
description whatever, of any size.
Trout and Other Fish.
72.*
1917, ch. 14.
82A. Whenever any watercourse, well, spring, open ditch, gutter,
cesspool, sewer, private or public, drain, privy-pit, pig-pen, or other
place, or any accumulation or deposit of waste or other offensive or
noxious matters discharged from any house, building, trades establish-
ment or manufacturing place, or any waste from any vessel, shall
become or dangerously threaten to become deleterious to or destructive
of fish or shellfish life, or the propagation, cultivation or conservation
thereof, or to their safety as human food, or in any manner a menace
to said fish or shellfish whether private or public property, in any
waters of the State, the Conservation Commission of Maryland shall
forthwith investigate the matter, and if it be so found shall serve a
notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation, by whose act,
default or sufferance such condition may arise or continue, requiring
the abatement of the same within a time to be fixed by the Commission
and to be specified in the notice, under a penalty of not less than one
hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, or imprisonment
for not less than one year nor more than three years, or be both fined
and imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court. It shall be construed
as a separate and distinct offense for each day the nuisance is permitted
to continue after the expiration of the time limit set forth in the notice
for the abatement of such nuisance, provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to alter, change, modify or restrict the
jurisdiction of the State Board of Health of Maryland; provided, how-
ever, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the Sewerage
Disposal Plant of any city, town or county in this State.+
1904, art. 39, sec. 81. 1902, ch. 358, sec. 78E. 1906, ch. 461. 1914, ch. 366.
1916. ch. 396
86. All acts and parts of acts, and all sections and parts of sections
of the code, both of general and local laws, and all amendments of and
additions and supplements thereto, now in force in the State of Mary-
land, inconsistent with the provisions of sections 78 to 86, with the
exception only of Chapter 4-27 of the acts of the general assembly of
Maryland, passed at the session of 1896, are hereby repealed.
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*As to the catching of fish in Frederick County, see the act of 1916, chapter
404.
+ Section 3 of the act of 1917, chapter 14, provides for the repeal of all laws and
parts of laws, general or local, inconsistent with said act of 1917, to the extent
of such inconsistency.
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