HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 875

dwellings, day nurseries, hotels and rooming houses, and
camps, and to milk, foods, milk products and food products,
and the manufacture, processing, handling and preparation
thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 293 of Article 3 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore
County", sub-title "Health and Sanitation", be and it is here-
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

293. (a) The Board of County Commissioners of Balti-
more County shall, ex-officio, constitute a local board of health
for Baltimore County, and shall have and exercise all the
powers and duties of a board of health as provided in Article
43 of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Health", al-
though not specifically enumerated herein, except in so far
as the provisions thereof may be inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this sub-title; said local board of health shall have
the general care of the sanitary interests of the people of
Baltimore County; they shall make or cause to be made sani-
* tary investigation and inquiries respecting the causes of
disease, and especially epidemics and causes of mortality;
they shall inquire into and investigate, or cause to be inquired
into and investigated, all nuisances affecting the public health,
comfort or property of the citizens of said county, or any city,
town or village therein; and are authorized and empowered
by information or petition filed in the name of such board, to
apply to the judges, or to any judge of the Circuit Court for
such county, in term time or vacation, for an injunction to
restrain and prevent such nuisance, no matter by whom or
what authority committed; and further, they shall have full
power and authority to preserve the health of the county, to
prevent and remove nuisances, and to prevent the introduction
of contagious diseases within said county.

(b) For the purpose of protecting the public health, the
Board of Health of Baltimore County may make any regula-
tions in its opinion necessary, and may from time to time
amend or repeal such regulations and make new regulations:

(1) to provide for the proper inspection of milk, foods, milk
products and food products, or any of them, offered for sale
or intended for consumption in Baltimore County;

(2) to provide for the proper inspection of all and any
plants, factories, dairies, bakeries, and establishments of any
kind or nature, manufacturing, processing, handling or pre-
paring milk, foods, milk products, or food products, for the