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investigations as may be necessary to insure the approximate correctness
of the plans shall be instituted by the County, district authority, munici-
pality, corporation, company, institution or individual required to supply
them. In case specifications of or reports on the water supply and sewerage
systems or refuse disposals plants are in existence, they shall be submitted,
as well as plans. The State Board of Health may request such other infor-
mation and records concerning the water supply and sewerage systems or
refuse disposal plants, and their maintenance and operation, as it may
deem proper for its purposes; and it shall be the duty of the County,
district authority, municipality, corporation, company, institution or in-
dividual interrogated to furnish such information and records.
An. Code, sec. 273. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 5.
332. When the State Board of Health finds, upon investigation, that
any water supply or sewerage system, or refuse disposal works, on account
of incompetent supervision or inefficient operation, is not producing such
results, from a sanitary standpoint, as might reasonably be expected, or is
in any way a menace to health or comfort or is creating a nuisance, it shall
issue an order to the proper officer, board, department or person having
charge of or owning such system or plant, to secure such operating results
as might be reasonably expected, which results shall be, and shall be pro-
duced within such time as shall be satisfactory to the State Board of Health.
If the desired results be not produced within the time specified, the State
Board of Health may order the proper officer, board, department or person
having charge of or owning such system or plant, to appoint, within such
time as it may specify, and pay the salary of, a competent person, to be
approved by the State Board of Health, who shall take charge of and operate
such system or plant, so as to secure the results demanded by the Board.
An. Code, sec. 274. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 6.
333. When the State Board of Health finds, upon investigation, that
any water supply or sewerage system, or refuse disposal works, is in any
way a menace to health or comfort, or is creating a nuisance, and conditions
cannot be sufficiently improved, in the opinion of the Board, by mere change
in the method of operation, the State Board of Health shall be empowered
to issue an order requiring the owner of the system or plant to make such
alterations or extensions to the system or plant, or to install such new system
or plant, as the Board may determine necessary to correct improper con-
ditions. The State Board of Health shall name in its order such date for
the completion of the work as it may deem reasonable and proper.
An. Code, sec. 275. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 7.
334. 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, mu-
nicipality, district, sub-division or locality; or in case absence or incom-
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