BALTIMORE COUNTY                               2009

(5)    To provide for the inspection and licensing of camps in the
county to regulate their operation and conduct, and to require that they
be kept in proper sanitary condition;

(6)    To provide for the inspection and licensing of all hotels, rooming
houses, lodging houses, and homes for aged or dependent persons in the
county, to regulate their operation and conduct, and to require that they
be kept in proper sanitary condition.

As used in this section:

(1)     The term "dwelling" shall be taken to mean any house or
building or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part as a
home, residence or sleeping place of one or more human beings, either
permanently or transiently.

(2)    The term "day nursery" shall be taken to mean an institution,
establishment or place in which are received two or more children for
temporary guardianship and nursery care, apart from their parents or
guardians, whether for compensation, reward or otherwise, during that
portion of the day or night in which their parents or guardians are
engaged in other pursuits and occupations than attending to and caring
for such children.

(3)    The term "camp" shall be taken to mean a lot or tract of land
on which there are living accommodations or trailer parking for two or
more automobile trailers, trailer houses, automobile housecars, outbuild-
ings, cabins, cottages or tents separated from a dwelling house or lodging-
house, and operated as separate units for hire or free occupancy.

(4)    The terms "hotel," "rooming house" and "lodginghouse" shall
be taken to mean any house or building occupied as the abiding place of ten
or more individuals, who are not related to the owner or lessee of such
house or building, and who are lodged in such house or building with or
without meals, and in which sleeping rooms, as a rule, are offered to the
public for rental or hire singly and as separate units from the other rooms
in such house or building.

Sec. 13-13. Meetings; additional powers and duties.

The county board of health [for the county shall meet semi-annually
in the months of May and October and as much oftener as they may deem
necessary; they] shall act in conjunction with the state board of health,
and shall report or cause to be reported to such state board such facts in
reference to the sanitary conditions of the county as they may deem
important or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules and
regulations concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within the county
not inconsistent with the provisions of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1957, the Baltimore County Charter, or this article relating thereto, and
may regulate all fees and charges in connection with such rules and
regulations. Any person who shall fail to comply with any such rules and
regulations as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be subject to