HARRY HUGHES, Governor

889

CHAPTER 93

(Senate Bill 517)

AN ACT concerning

Health - Location of Landfill Systems

FOR the purpose of repealing certain provisions dealing with
the location of a landfill system for refuse disposal
within 1/2 mile of a hospital, and making a certain
provision effective after a certain date subject to an
exception; and redesignating a subsection certain
subsections; and making this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 394

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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 43 - Health

394.

(a) After April 16, 1914, the State, a county,
municipality, district, corporation, company, institution,
or person may not install a system of water supply, sewerage
or refuse disposal, for public use, nor materially alter or
extend any such existing system, without having received a
written permit from the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene so to do. In addition, permit for this purpose may
not be issued until complete plans and specifications for
the installation, alteration or extension, together with any
information as the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene
may require, have been submitted and approved by the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene. All construction
shall take place in accordance with the approved plans. In
case it becomes necessary or desirable to make material
changes in plans or specifications, the changed plans or
specifications, together with a statement of the reasons for
the alterations, shall be submitted to the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene, and no material changes shall be
embodied in the actual construction until they are approved
by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene and a permit
issued for them. After completion of the work a certified
copy of the plans in full, showing the work as built, shall
be filed with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene for
permanent record. The Secretary of Health and Mental