782 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 311

having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 311
(House Bill 10)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Health", sub-title "State Board of Health",
eliminating the provision requiring certain regulations to
be published in a daily newspaper published in Baltimore
City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Health", sub-title "State
Board of Health", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

2. The State Board of Health shall have the general care
of the sanitary interests of the people of this State; they shall
make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the
causes of disease, and especially epidemics, the causes of mor-
tality and the influence of locality, employments, habits and
other circumstances and conditions upon the health of the
people; they shall inquire into and investigate all nuisances
affecting the public health and are authorized and empowered,
by information or petition filed in the name of the Board, to
apply to the Judges or to any Judge of the Circuit Court for
the county in which such nuisance shall exist, or to the Judge
of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in
term, time or vacation, for an injunction to restrain and pre-
vent such nuisance no matter by whom or what authority
committed. They shall have the power to enter upon and
inspect private property in regard of the presence of nuisances,
cases of infectious and contagious diseases and to determine
the cause and source of diseases; to make rules and regula-
tions not inconsistent with law regulating the character and
location of plumbing, drainage, water supply, disposal of
sewage, garbage or other waste material and offensive trades;
the sanitary condition of streets, alleys, outhouses, cesspools