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the county or district health officer; provided, that any persons who shall
have a private water supply upon his own property and who shall have
maintained such water supply previous to the construction of any cess-
pool, or other receptacle or contrivance, or earth pit which he may allege
to have polluted his water supply, may make application to the County
Commissioners for an investigation to determine if his water supply is
polluted by the said earth pit, cesspool, or other receptacle or contrivance.
If upon such investigation such private water supply shall be found to be
polluted by sai.d cesspool, earth pit, or other receptacle or contrivance, the
County Commissioners shall order the use of such cesspool, earth pit, or
other receptacle or contrivance discontinued. Any person refusing or
neglecting to obey such order of the County Commissioners shall be liable
to the penalty provided by Section 308 for refusing to comply with
rules and regulations of the County Commissioners as aforesaid, but
provided that in communities supplied by a common public water supply,
and in which two-thirds of the houses in such communities shall be sup-
plied by the said common or public water supply, the owner of a private
supply shall not have the right to prevent the use of a cesspool or pit by
any individual if the said owner can receive water from, the public water
supply at a reasonable cost, and provided that individuals using the public
water supply shall have the same right to demand the investigation of
any source of pollution as provided in this section for owners of private
water supplies.

1902, ch. 515. 1908, ch. 587, sec. 132B. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 180. 1916. sec. 264.

1928, sec 310.

310. It shall be unlawful to bring the contents of privies or any offal,
or deposit the same within half a mile of the limits of any town or village
having more than 500 inhabitants, or within such a distance from any
dwelling-house outside the limits of such a town or village as to cause a
nuisance or danger to the health of any person or persons under penalty
of a fine of five dollars for every such offense.

1902, ch 515. 1908, ch. 587, sec. 132C. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 181. 1916. sec. 265.

1928, sec. 311.

311. It shall be the duty of the District Health Officer in all such places
as may be supplied with a force for the collection of garbage, to direct the
garbage force or some other person whom he may designate, to remove
the contents of privy boxes, for which service the said remover of gar-
bage or other person is authorized to receive fifty cents for each box of
twelve cubic feet of capacity emptied, to be paid by the occupant of the

premises.

1902 ch 515 1908, ch. 587, sec. 132D. B. Co. C. (1908), sec. 183. 1916, sec. 266.

1928, sec. 312.

312. The County Commissioners are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to make regulations governing the location and conduct of pig pens
and hog pens in the county. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep