BALTIMORE COUNTY.

local Board of Health, to maintain proceedings in equity to enjoin the
commission, maintenance or continuance of nuisance of any kind affect-
ing health.

1908, ch. 587, see. 132K. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 272. 1928, sec. 318.

318. Nothing in any of the foregoing provisions relating to the preser-
vation of the public health in Baltimore County shall be taken as in
anywise repealing or as in substitution for any provisions of the Public
General Laws relating to health, except and only in so far as any of the
aforegoing sections are inconsistent therewith.

1912, ch. 157, sec. 132L. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 273. 1928, sec. 319.

319. Subject to the conditions and restrictions hereinafter contained,
the County Commissioners of Baltimore County shall have full power
and authority to establish sewerage or drainage systems in said county
whenever in their opinion public welfare or convenience may so require;
and shall further have power to provide by reasonable regulations for the
proper maintenance, preservation, protection, examination, inspection and
repair of the same, whether on public or private property, all such regu-
lations to be subject to approval by the State Board of Health of Mary-
land, and when so approved, to have all the force and effect of law. The
power so delegated shall be taken to include the power to open, alter, en-
large, or straighten, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, any
sewer or drain, public or private, through any public or private property,
to inspect and regulate house drainage and sewerage connections, both
public and private, to condemn lands or other property necessary in the
construction or maintenance of such sewerage system or systems and their
appurtenances, and to dispose of sewerage so collected by contract or other-
wise, to provide for the cost of such systems, and generally to do all other
and such things and pass such regulations as may reasonably be neces-
sary and proper to exercise the power and effect the objects herein speci-
fied, the words "Sewerage System" as used in this and succeeding sections
to be taken to embrace all manner of methods for conducting and dispos-
ing of ordinary sewage and surface drainage, including household sewage
and surface waters.

Welch v. Coglan, 126 Md. 10. Ludwig v. Balto. Co., 131 Md. 353.

1912, ch. 157, sec. 132M. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 274. 1928, sec. 320.

320. Said Commissioners shall further have full power and authority
to provide by regulations, subject to approval by the State Board of Health
as aforesaid, for the taking of any private property or property rights of
any kind which may reasonably be necessary for any of the purposes
specified in this Act, including the acquisition of property or property
rights for the disposition of sewage, provided, however, that such regula-
tions shall contain appropriate provisions for notice to the owner or owners
of such property or rights, an opportunity to be heard and the payment
of compensation for property or property rights so taken, and also for an