172 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 105
CHAPTER 105.
(Senate Bill 211)

AN ACT defining a public nuisance constituting a menace
to health within the Town of Gaithersburg, Garrett Park,
and/or the Town of Washington Grove and authorizing
the Town Council in said Towns to abate said nuisance
and compel connection with the water and sewage system
within said Towns.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the existence and maintenance of a privy
and/or sink drain of any character whatsoever on any
property within the corporate limits of the Town of Gaith-
ersburg, Garrett Park, and/or the Town of Washington
Grove, at any time after construction or acquisition of any
water main or sewer within said town or towns and within
one hundred (100) feet from any such water main or
sewer shall be and is hereby declared to be a public nuisance
constituting a menace to health; or, where there exists a
spring, well, cesspool, or private sewage disposal plant
which is or may become prejudicial to health, the Town
Council of the Town in which said condition exists shall
declare the condition to be a public nuisance constituting
a menace to health.

(a) If, after ten days notice of an opportunity to be
heard by either the owner or occupant of said property
before the Town Council of the Town within which the
alleged public nuisance constituting a menace to health
is said to exist, the Town Council determines that a public
nuisance constituting a menace to health does exist, the
Town Council shall pass an order requiring the abatement
of said nuisance, and may require the connection or con-
nections to the water main and/or sewer in not less than
thirty nor more than ninety days, and a refusal or neglect
to comply with said order is hereby declared to be a mis-
demeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars,
or imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding thirty
days, or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of
the Court, for each day that such refusal or neglect con-
tinues after the date of the issuance of said order.

(b) Upon complaint made in writing by the Town
Council of the Town within which said public nuisance
exists, or by its Executive Officer, before any Justice of
the Peace, charging the commission of an offense against
this provision, it shall be the duty of the Attorney of the