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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 190

Approved April 28, 1981.

CHAPTER 191

(House Bill 1036)

AN ACT concerning

Allegany County - Abatement of Nuisance

FOR the purpose of providing that any person, firm, or
corporation in Allegany County who fails to abate a
nuisance is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction,
is subject to a certain fine; requiring law enforcement
officers in Allegany County to enforce this Act; and
requiring the State's Attorney in Allegany County to
prosecute certain violators; and clarifying language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 104A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

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104A.

(a)  In Cecil [County] AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES, in
addition to all other provisions of this subtitle; any
person, firm or corporation who fails to abate a nuisance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than [$25.00]$25 nor more than
[$100.00]$100. Each day that a violation continues shall
constitute a separate offense.

(b)  A nuisance under this section shall be defined as
the maintenance of any condition dangerous to health or
safety such as an inadequately protected swimming pool or
ditch; the maintenance of any condition which may adversely
affect the public health; for example, an unsanitary privy,
a foul pigpen, an improperly functioning sewage system, an
unkept junk yard (commercial or private), any excessive
accumulation of trash (combustible or noncombustible), or
garbage, dead animals, a contaminated or inadequately
protected water supply or a rat harborage; the maintenance
of such poor housekeeping within any building (commercial or