1526 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
be required by the Board. The State Board of Health may
thereupon order the preparation and submission of such plans
and specifications, within a specified time, as it may deem neces-
sary for furnishing adequate water supply and sewerage ser-
vice to said sub-division; and it may at any time order the in-
stallation, within a specified period, in accordance with the
plans presented or approved revisions thereof, of the whole or
any part of the water supply and sewerage systems for said
sub-division as the public health may, in its judgment, require.
SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That whenever the State
Board of Health shall find that any of the waters of the State
are polluted by wastes from any manufacturing or industrial
establishment, in such a way as to be or to be liable to become
a menace to the public health or comfort, or whenever the ex-
isting method of waste disposal in a manufacturing or industrial
establishment is found to be or be liable to become in any way a
menace to health or comfort, the State Board of Health shall
issue an order requiring the owner of such establishment to
cease pollution of the body of water into which the waste is dis-
charged, or to make such alterations in the method of disposing
of said waste, as the Board may deem necessary to protect the
public health and comfort; and said order shall be complied
with within such time as the State Board of Health shall deter-
mine. Plans for all such changes in the method of disposing of
trades wastes shall be submitted to the State Board of Health
for approval, and all construction shall be carried out in con-
formity therewith. If the State Board of Health shall approve
the plans submitted, it shall issue a permit for the use of the
method proposed for taking care of the waste, and no revised
method for taking care of said waste shall be put into effect
without such permit. The owner of any manufacturing or in-
dustrial establishment shall submit to the State Board of Health,
on demand, all plans, information and records regarding the
existing methods used for the disposal of wastes at that estab-
lishment.
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That whenever the State
Board of Health shall find that the water or ice from any public
or private source of water or ice supply is, or is likely to become,
dangerous to health, or that the discharge of sewage or the
method of disposal of sewage or refuse, from any system or
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