HEALTH. 1581

Nuisances.

An. Code, sec. 103. 1904, sec. 74. 1888, sec. 35. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 1. 1924, ch. 544.

102. Whenever any watercourse, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cess-
pool, drain, privy pit, pigpen or other place, or any accumulation or deposit
offensive or noxious matters, or any house, building, trades establishment
or manufacturing place, or any water in which mosquito larvae breed, is
certified to the State Board of Health by any two legally qualified medical
practitioners, or any three or more persons affected thereby, to be in a state
of nuisance injuriously affecting any adjacent property or district, danger-
ous to health, the said Board of Health shall forthwith investigate the mat-
ter, and if it shall be found that the nuisance complained of is such as to in-
juriously affect any adjacent property or district, or is calculated to endan-
ger the health or life of any person, the said board shall through its proper
officer serve a notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation, by whose
act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues; or if such person,
firm or corporation cannot be found, or the owner or occupier of the
premises on which the nuisance arises or exists, requiring him or them
to abate the same within a time to be specified in the notice, and to exe-
cute such works and do such things as may be necessary for that purpose,
provided that nothing in this act shall apply to the water in which mos-
quitoes or mosquito larvas breed in Prince George's, Baltimore, Dorchester,
Charles, Calvert, Caroline, Harford Counties and Anne Arundel County
except the first precinct of the Third, Election District.

See secs. 49, 50 and 280. As to water, ice and sewage, see sec. 328, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 104. 1904, sec. 75. 1888, sec. 36. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 2.

103. If any person, firm or corporation, on whom a notice to abate a
nuisance has been served, refuses or neglects to comply with any of the re-
quirements thereof, within the time specified in such notice, or if the
nuisance, although abated since the service of the notice, is likely to recur
on the same premises, the state board of health may, through its proper
officers, make or cause a complaint relating to such nuisance, to be made to
any judge of the circuit court for the county in which such nuisance shall
exist, or to the judge of the circuit court or circuit court No. 2 of Baltimore
city, as the case may be; and such judge shall thereupon issue a summons
requiring the party or parties on whom the notice was served to appear
before him, and if satisfied, after hearing said party or parties, or ex parte,
in case of the default of any of them to appear, that the alleged nuisance
exists, or although abated, is likely to recur on the same premises, he shall
make an order on such person, firm or corporation requiring him or them to
comply with any or all the requisitions of the notice, or otherwise 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 prac-
ticable.

An. Code, sec. 105. 1904, sec' 76. 1888, sec. 37. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 3.

104. Whenever the nuisance is created or maintained by more than
one person, firm or corporation, the said judge may make such order with