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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act contained is intended or shall be taken or construed as re-
lieving the said The Annapolis & Chesapeake Bay Power Com-
pany from the provisions of Chapter 180 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1910 known as the Public
Service Law or any amendment thereto.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is an
emergency law and necessary for the preservation of the public
health and safety and having been passed by a yea and nea
vote supported by three-fifths of all the members of each of the
two Houses elected to the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 544.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 103
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 103 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:

103. Whenever any watercourse, well, spring, open ditch,
gutter, cesspool, drain, privy pit, pigpen or other place, or any
accumulation or deposit offensive or noxious matters, or any
house, building, trades establishment or manufacturing place,
or any water in which mosquito larvae breed, is certified to the
State Board of Health by any two legally qualified medical
practitioners, or any three or more persons affected thereby,
to be in a state of nuisance injuriously affecting any adjacent
property or district, dangerous to health, the said Board of
Health shall forthwith investigate the matter, and if it shall
be found that the nuisance complained of is such as to injuri-
ously affect any adjacent property or district, or is calculated
to endanger the health or life of any person, the said board
shall through its proper officer serve a notice in writing on the
person, firm or corporation, by whose act, default or sufferance
the nuisance arises or continues; or if such person, firm or
corporation cannot be found, or the owner or occupier of the
premises on which the nuisance arises or exists, requiring him
or them to abate the same within a time to be specified in the

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