HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  3393

Article - Health - Environmental
10-305.

(a)   In this section, "nuisance" includes:

(1)  Any condition that is dangerous to health or
safety, such as an inadequately protected swimming pool or
ditch;

(2)  Any condition that may adversely affect the
public health, such as an unsanitary outhouse, a foul
pigpen, an improperly functioning sewage system, an unkept
junkyard, AN UNKEPT SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY, an
excessive accumulation of trash or garbage, dead animals, a
contaminated water supply, an inadequately protected water
supply, or a rat harborage;

(3)  Housekeeping in any building that is so poor
that the health of the owner, occupants, employees, or
neighbors may be endangered; and

(4)  Any condition that may endanger health
through the spreading of the condition by any means,
including by streams, surface drainage, air currents,   winged
life, domestic animals, or human beings.

(b)   In Cecil or Allegany Counties, in addition to any
other penalty imposed by this subtitle, a person who refuses
or neglects to comply with a notice or order to abate a
nuisance BY THE SECRETARY, OR THE HEALTH OFFICER FOR THE
COUNTY WHERE THE NUISANCE EXISTS is guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100 a
day for each day the violation continues.

Article - Transportation

8-801.

(e) "Junkyard" means an establishment or place of
business that is maintained, operated, or used:

junk;

(1)  For storing, keeping, buying, or selling

(2)   For an automobile graveyard; OR

(3)   As a garbage dump or sanitary fill[; or

(4)  As a scrap metal processing facility].

(h) "Scrap metal processing facility" means an
establishment:

(1) That has facilities for processing iron,
steel, or nonferrous scrap metal; and