3606 ARTICLE 16.

1914, ch. 627, sec. 468C.

880. For the purpose of this Act, the following definitions shall apply
to the interpretation of the following words and phrases:

(a) Sewerage : All human and animal excretions, street wash, domestic
and manufacturing waste, when carried by water, either in suspension-or
solution.

(b) Sewerage System: All the agencies, methods, appliances or opera-
tions, natural or artificial, singly or combined, that enter into the collec-
tion, transportation, treatment and final disposition of sewerage.

(c) Sewerage Districts: All the territory within which the topographic
or economic conditions are such as to make possible or advisable the con-
centrations of sewerage at one point, either for treatment, or final disposi-
tion or transportation to a more distant point.

(d) Drainage: All storm, surface or ground water, either in natural
or artificial channels.

(e) Drainage System: All the agencies, methods, appliances or opera-
tions, natural or artificial, singly or combined, that enter into the collec-
tion, transportation and final disposition of storm, surface or underground
water.

(f) Drainage District: All the territory forming the water shed of a
particular stream.

(g) Sewerage or Drainage Areas: Sub-divisions of sewerage or drain-
age districts made necessary by topographic or economic conditions.

(h) Public Nuisance: Any matter whether solid, liquid or gaseous,
which of itself is injurious to health, or which may become so, on contact
with other substances, whether the latter may be in themselves harmful or
not, further, any matter which, though not demonstrably poisonous, is of-
fensive to the senses or which on being allowed to run into a stream will
render the water therein unfit for such purposes as it was used before pollu-
tion. Also such disposition of any matter, that it may, while in condition
above described, approach within affective distance of any distance of any
dwelling or occupied land shall be held a public nuisance.

1914, ch. 627, sec. 468D.

881. Upon the passage of this Act, the said Commission shall cause
to be shown on a map of said Montgomery County, the various drainage
districts therein, as shown by the topography in the different parts of the
county. It may thereupon determine which of the districts or parts there-
of is in most need of sewerage or drainage facilities, and proceed to have
accurate surveys of said districts made and maps prepared, showing the
outlines thereof, and the various sewerage and drainage areas therein, to-
gether with such topographic detail as will be necessary for the proper
design of sewerage or drainage systems or parts thereof.

Upon these maps shall be projected a proposed plan of main sewerage
and drainage for each district and the various sewerage areas therein and
they shall constitute and be designated on the approval of the State Board