PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1523

municipality, corporation, company, institution or individual
interrogated to furnish such information and records.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That when the State
Board of Health finds, upon investigation, that any water sup-
ply or sewerage system, or refuse disposal works, on account of
incompetent supervision or inefficient operation, is not produc-
ing such results, from a sanitary standpoint, as might reason-
ably be expected, or is in any way a menace to health or com-
fort, or is creating a nuisance, it shall issue an order to the
proper officer, board, department or person having charge of
or owning such system or plant, to secure such operating re-
sults as might be reasonably expected, which results shall be,
and shall be produced within such time as shall be satisfactory
to the State Board of Health. If the desired results be not pro-
duced within the time specified, the State Board of Health may
order the proper officer, board, department or person having
charge of or owning such system or plant, to appoint, within
such time as it may specify, and pay the salary of, a competent
person, to be approved by the State Board of Health, who shall
take charge of and operate such system or plant, so as to secure
the results demanded by the Board.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That when the State
Board of Health finds, upon investigation, that any water sup-
ply or sewerage system, or refuse disposal works, is in any way
a menace to health or comfort, or is creating a nuisance, and
conditions cannot be sufficiently improved, in the opinion of the
Board, by mere change in the method of operation, the State
Board of Health shall be empowered to issue an order requiring
the owner of the system or plant to make such alterations or
extensions to the system or plant, or to install such new system or
plant, as the Board may determine necessary to correct improper
conditions. The State Board of Health shall name in its order
such date for the completion of the work as it may deem rea-
sonable and proper.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when the State
Board of Health finds, upon investigation, that any of the
waters of the State are being, or are liable to become, polluted
in a way dangerous to health, or so as to be in any way a
nuisance, and such condition is, due to the fact that there is
no, or only a partial, system of public water supply, sewerage
or refuse disposal in a certain County, municipality, district,