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remove the said nuisance, or cause of said nuisance, at the expense of
said owner or owners, occupier or occupiers; and the cost of removing
said nuisance or cause of said nuisance may be recovered by said County
Health Officer in the name of the County Commissioners of Howard
County from the said owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, by suit, if
necessary.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45L (p. 911).

88. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner, or any one
or more persons affected thereby, shall make a complaint in writing
to the Local Board of Health, or to the County Health Officer, that
any water course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cesspool, drain, privy,
pit, pigpen or other place, or any accumulation or deposit of any sub-
stance is in a condition dangerous to human health, said Local Health
Board shall immediately institute an investigation, and if it shall decide
that the place or thing complained of is in such a condition as to inju-
riously affect the life or health of any person, the said Board shall cause
to be served a notice in writing on the person, firm or corporation by whose
act, default or sufferance the place or thing complained of arises or exists,
requiring him or them to abate the same within a time to be specified in
the notice; and any person, firm or corporation refusing or neglecting to
comply with the requirements in such notice shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars
for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense in reference to the
same place or thing be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or may be
imprisoned for a period not exceeding thirty days for each offense, in the
discretion of the Court. Every day during which a nuisance shall be
permitted to continue to exist after service of the aforesaid notice to abate
the same shall constitute a separate and distinct offense within the mean-
ing of this Act.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45M (p. 911).

89. Any person occupying any real property or chattels real in How-
ard County, either as tenant or owner thereof, or any person owning unoc-
cupied real estate or chattels real in said county who shall knowingly allow
any dead carcass of any domestic animal to be exposed upon premises
without burial for a longer period than twenty-four hours, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable
to a fine of twenty dollars, or imprisonment for not less than ten days for
each offense, in the discretion of the Court.

1910, ch. 315, sec. 45N (p. 911).

90. No earth pits or cesspools, or other means for the disposal of
human sewerage other than water-tight boxes or other water-tight recep-
tacles, shall be constructed in any part of Howard County within three
hundred yards of the source of any public or private water supply, ex-
cepting upon a permit issued by the County Health Officer; provided,