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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 475.

Health officer
appointed.

biennially thereafter, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a
county health officer, who shall be a well educated physician,
and who by virtue of his appointment shall be secretary and
executive officer of the board, and upon any vacancy in the
office of county health officer, his successor shall be appointed
by the Local Board of Health as soon as practicable; the
county health officer shall hold office for two years from the
date of his appointment, but may be removed by the State
Board of Health for cause, upon charges made and considered
at a regular meeting of said board.

Time
of meeting,

Section 11. The Local Board of Health of each county shall
meet semi-annually in the month of May and October, and as
much oftener as they may deem necessary; they shall act in
conjunction with the State Board of Health, and shall report
to said board such facts in reference to the sanitary condition
of their respective counties as they may deem important or
necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules and
regulations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within
their respective jurisdictions, subject to the provisions of this
Article; they may regulate all fees and charges in connection
with their own regulations, and shall establish the salaries of
their respective county health officers on the following maxi-
mum basis: not exceeding, in counties having a population of
15, 000 or less, $150. 00 per annum, with an additional allow-
ance of not more than $50. 00 per annum for each 5, 000 of
population in excess of 15, 000.

Investigation
to be made,

etc.

Section 11 A. Whenever any legally qualified medical prac-
titioner or any two or more persons affected thereby shall
make a complaint in writing to a Local Board of Health that
any water course, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cess-pool,
drain, privy-pit, pig-pen or other place, or any accumulation
or deposit of any substance is in a condition dangerous to
human health, the said Local Board of Health shall imme-
diately 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 serve a notice in writing on the person, firm or corpora-
tion by whose act, default or sufferance the place or thing com-
plained of is in such a condition as to injuriously affect the life
or health of any person, the said board shall serve a notice in
writing on the person, firm or corporation by whose act,
default or sufferance the place or thing com plained 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 cor-
poration, refusing or neglecting to comply with the require-
ments in such notice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and