BALTIMORE COUNTY. 67

1912, ch. 157. 1914, ch. 804, sec. 132Q. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 278. 1928, sec. 324.

324. Whenever it happens in said county that there is any community
without adequate facilities for the disposal of sewage, and said Commis-
sioners may deem it inexpedient to construct a sewerage system at the
expense of said community or at public expense, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and there is or may be constructed or maintained by private enter-
prises a sewerage system or disposal plant for public use, the State Board
of Health shall investigate such conditions, and if, after due notice to all
persons who may be directly affected by such order and an opportunity
given them to be heard, said State Board of Health shall determine the
sewerage conditions and in said community are such as to be reasonably
dangerous to public health or to the health of the residents of such com-
munity, it shall be the duty of said State Board of Health to pass an
order so declaring, and directing the owners or occupants of such com-
munity within such reasonable time and in such reasonable manner as by
said order may be prescribed to connect their respective premises with
said private sewerage system; a duly certified copy of which said order
shall be transmitted by said State Board of Health to the County Com-
missioners of said County and there kept on file and of record, and any
person feeling himself aggrieved by such order may at any time within
ten days from the date of the filing of the same in the office of the County
Commissioners as aforesaid appeal from said order to the Circuit Court
for Baltimore County, and be entitled to a jury trial upou the issue in-
volved in such appeal; provided, if no such appeal shall be taken within
the period aforesaid, said order shall become final as to all persons affected
thereby and not appealing therefrom. Upon such appeal there shall be
three issues presented to the jury—first, whether or not the public health
requires that the appellant should be compelled to connect his premises
with such private sewerage system; second, whether or not the require-
ment of the State Board of Health as to the time within which such con-
nection shall be made is reasonable; and third, whether or not the require-
ments of the State Board of Health as to the manner in which such con-
nections shall be made is reasonable. If the finding of the jury shall be
in favor of the appellant or the first of said issues, the same shall be final,
but if the finding of the jury shall be against the appellant on the first of
said issues, and in his favor, on either the second or third of said issues,
or on both, the papers in the cause shall be remanded to the County Com-
missioners, who shall transmit a record of the same to the State Board
of Health, which shall forthwith pass a new order after due notice to the
appellant and an opportunity given him to be heard, and transmit a copy
of such order to the County Commissioners as aforesaid, where it shall
again be subject to appeal upon the issue or issues not previously passed
upon. Any person not complying with such order of the State Board of
Health which has become final as in this section provided, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of ten dollars per day for
every day during which he fails to comply with such an order, such fines
to be collected as other fines and penalties for misdemeanors are collectible.