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such town or village, or in case the sanitary law or regulations
in places where boards of health or health officers exist should
be inoperative, the State board of health shall make such
regulations respecting nuisances, sources of filth and causes of
sickness as they shall judge necessary for the public health
and safety.

1890, ch. 622, sec. 5.

70. The said board of health shall also make such regula-
tions as they may deem necessary for the public health and
safety, respecting any articles which are capable of containing
or conveying any infection or contagion, or creating any sick-
ness, or for the disinfecting of any house, room or premises
where contagious or infectious disease has existed; and any
person who shall sustain damages by reason thereof, shall
receive compensation in accordance with the provisions of
section 31; if any person shall violate or refuse or neglect to
comply with any such regulation, he shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding fifty dollars.

Ibid. sec. 6.

71. In any town or village where no special health depart-
ment has been established, the State board of health is hereby
empowered to make such rules and regulations in relation to
the care and cleansing of privies, pig-pens and other noxious
places, as they may deem desirable for the preservation of
the health of any of the inhabitants thereof, or the said board
may declare any such privy, pig-pen or other noxious place a
nuisance, and the abatement thereof be by the said board, or
its executive officer, ordered and enforced.

Ibid. sec. 7.

72. Any violation, or neglect or refusal to comply with any
rule or regulation of the said board under sections 66 to 71,
both inclusive, shall be deemed to be a misdemeanor, and shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or imprison-
ment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both such
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 8.

73. Upon complaint made in writing by the State board of
health, or its executive officer, before any justice of the peace,
charging the commission of an offense against the provisions
of said sections 66 to 71, both inclusive, it shall be the duty