404 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 202;

CHAPTER 202.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 36,
of Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, title "State Board of Health, " sub-title "State Reg-
istrar of Vital Statistics, as amended by Chapter 742 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1914, so as to clearly define
the duties of the Health Officer of Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 36 of Article 43 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title "State Board of Health, " sub-
title "State Registrar of Vital Statistics, " as amended by
Chapter 742 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1914, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows; to wit:

Section 36. The Local Board of Health of each County
shall meet semi-annually in the months 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 con-
ditions of their respective Counties as they may deem import-
ant or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules
and regulations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness,
within their respective jurisdiction subject to the provisions of
this Article; they may regulate all fees and charges in connec-
tion with their own regulations and shall establish the salaries
of their respective County health officers on the following maxi-
mum bases: not exceeding, in Counties having a population of
15, 000 or less, $150 per annum, with an additional allowance
of not more than $100 per annum for each 8, 000 of population
in excess of 15, 000.

Provided, that in Montgomery County it shall be the duty
of the County Commissioners to meet exclusively as a board
of health on the first Wednesday of each month; and provided
further, that it shall be the duty of the health officer of said
Montgomery County, in addition to those duties otherwise pre-
scribed by law, in instances of contagion to fumigate all school
and other public buildings, the materials therefor to be pro-
vided by said Board of Health, and provided further that said
health officer for said Montgomery County, shall perform all
the duties heretofore required of the physicians to the jail and
the almshouse of said Montgomery County; and provided fur-
ther that the salary as health officer for said Montgomery
County shall be $1, 200 per annum.