610 ARTICLE 3.

pen, or other place, or any accumulation or deposit of any substance is
in a condition dangerous to human health, said local Board of Health
shall immediately institute an investigation, and if it shall decide that
the place or thing complained of is in such a condition as to injuriously
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 to 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
meaning of this subtitle.

1908, ch. 587, sec. 128. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 258. 1928. sec. 304.

304. No person shall haul, cart, carry, drag or deposit any dead carcass
or other carrion in Baltimore County, within one mile of the City of
Baltimore, unless he shall bury or cause the same to be buried at least
two feet under ground, and so as effectually to prevent any offensive smell
therefrom under the penalty of twenty dollars for each offense, together
with the expenses of burying or removing the same, and any other person
who shall bury or remove any dead carcass or offensive carrion, thrown
out and deposited contrary to the provisions of this section, shall recover,
before any justice of the peace, against the person guilty of such offense,
all expenses incurred in burying and removing the same.

1908, ch. 587, sec. 129. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 259. 1928. sec. 305.

305. Any person occupying any real property or chattels real in Balti-
more County, either as tenant or owner thereof, or any person owning un-
occupied real estate or chattels real in said county who shall knowingly
allow any dead carcass of any domestic animal to be exposed upon prem-
ises 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.

1902, ch 515 1908, ch. 587. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 175. 1914, ch. 91. 1916, sec. 260.

1928, sec. 306.

306. The County Commissioners are authorized to employ a sufficient
number of men with horses and carts, or to contract for the removal of
garbage, ashes and other offal in such thickly populated places as they
shall consider necessary; and the said sanitary officers are authorized