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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.

132B. 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 dan-
ger to the health of any person or persons under penalty of a
fine of five dollars for every such offense.

132C. 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 garbage or other person is
authorized to receive fifty cents for each box of twevle cubic
feet of capacity emptied, to be paid by the occupant of the
premises.

132D. The County Commissioners are hereby authorized and
empowered to make regulations governing the location and
conduct of pig pens and hog pens in the county. It shall be un-
lawful for any person to keep a hog pen or pig pen within fifty
feet of any well, spring, pond, lake, river or stream, the water
of which may be used for drinking or cooking purposes, or in
violation of the aforesaid regulations in Baltimore county,
under a penalty of not less than ten dollars, and the said dis-
trict health officer shall immediately remove the same.

132E. Any person who shall commit a nuisance by throwing
any dead animal or garbage or offal of any kind into any high-
way, byway or alley, or upon any vacant lot, in any town or
village in Baltimore county, or in the vicinity thereof, or who
shall fail to remove it within twenty-four hours after receipt
of notice from the district health officer, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject
to a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars
for each such offense, and shall be requested to pay the cost of
removal to the County Commissioners.

132F. Whenever it shall come to the attention of the County
Commissioners that any road or street, avenue, alley, byway or
highway of any kind used by the public, and whether a county
highway or not is in an unsanitary condition, prejudicial to the
health of the neighborhood, it shall be the duty of said County
Commissioners to cause an investigation of such condition to
be made, and if, upon such investigation, the same is found to
be in an unsanitary condition and prejudicial to the health of