J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      749

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 538
(Senate Bill 638)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Health", sub-title "State Board of Health and Mental Hy-
giene", amending the powers of the State Board of Health and
Mental Hygiene in order to permit the regulation of the sanitary
condition of certain railroad locomotives, providing for the pro-
cedure for such regulation and making certain corrections on this
section.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Health", sub-title "State Board of Health and
Mental Hygiene", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

2. The State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene 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 mortality 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 prevent
such nuisance no matter by whom or what authority committed.
They shall have the power to enter upon and inspect private property
in regard to the presence of nuisances, cases of infectious and con-
tagious diseases and to determine the cause and source of diseases;
to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with law regulating
the character and location of plumbing, drainage, water supply, dis-
posal of sewage, garbage or other waste material and offensive
trades; the sanitary condition of railroad locomotives (after hearing,
and not including those used exclusively in yard switching service),
streets, alleys, outhouses, cesspools and all sanitary features con-
nected therewith; no rule or regulation, however, to carry a higher
penalty than one hundred dollars for each offense and all such rules
and regulations to bear the seal of the State Board of Health and
Mental Hygiene and be attested by its secretary.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved April 8, 1965.