The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-10
nen Aduertfsements
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER SIS.

peal Chapter four hundred ana sixty of the
Acts of the General Assembly of MARYLAND
passed at the January Session 1894. entitled
IAN Act to repeal Sections l. 2, and of Chap
ter GA of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January Session
1890 amending certain Sections of Article g.
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title Balti-
more County, subtitle Health and Sanitary
Officers" and to re-enact the same with
amendments and additions thereto; also to re-
peal Chapter 59l of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at January
Session of 1900. entitled IAN Act to provide
for Sanitary Officer for the 18th Election dis
trict of Baltimore county" and also to repeal
Sections III. 49, 1l9, 100. 121, 122, 123 l24 l25
1875 1877, l2s, 49, 100, l31 and 132 Of Article of
the Code of Public Local Laws title "Balti-
Officers" and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland. That Sections 10 and Is of
Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, title Health" subtitle Estate
Board of HEALTH be and the same are hereby
repealed so far as they relate to Baltimore
Section 2. And be it enacted That Chapter
AGO of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1894,
entitled IAN Act to repeal Sections !, 2, and
of Chapter GA of the Acts of the General AS
semby of Maryland, passed at January Session
1890, amending certain Sections of Article of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title Baltimore
County, subtitle Health and Sanitary Off
GERS" and to re-enact the same with amend
ments and additions thereto, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
d.
sol of the Acts of 1900 entitled IAN Act to pro-
vide Sanitary Officer for the 18th Election Dis
trct of Baltimore county" is hereby by repealed,
49, 124 125, 126, 1877 128 100, 100, l3l and lS2 of
Article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Baltlm4re COUNTY subtitle
are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
as follows: .
III. The County Commissioners shall on the
first Tuesday in May, 1902, and on the fist Tues
day in May each year thereafter, appoint fifteen
experienced physicians. residents of Baltimore
county. to serve as Sanitary Officers VIZ: one
such officer for the First Election District of
said county, with salary of three hundred dol
lars per annum one such officer foI the Second
Election District, with salary of me hundred
and twenty five dollars per annun; one such
officer for the Third district, with salary of
two hundred and fifty dollars perannum; one
such officer for the Fourth Election District.
with a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum one such officer for tie Fifth Elec,
ton District, with a salary of on. hundred and
twenty five dollars per annum; one such officer
for the Sixth Election District, With salary of
one hundred and twenty dollars per annum
trict, with salary of one bundled and twenty
five dollars per annum; one su0 oincer TOT the
Eighth Election District, with a salary OF Two
hundred and fifty dollars per alnum; one such
officer for the Ninth Election District, with a
salary of three hundred dollars; one such ON
Ger for the Tenth district, witha salary OF one
hundred and twenty-five dollaES one such OH
Ger for the Eleventh district. with salary of
twelfth district. with a salary of three hundred
dollars one such officer for the Thirteenth dis
| trict, with a salary of two hundred and nifty
dollars one such officer for the Fourteenth as
trict, with salary of two hundred dollars, and
one such officer for the Fifteenth district, with
a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars, all OF
| said salaries to be payable quarterly. AND the
| County Commissioners shall designate and APP
| point from said Board OF Sanitary Officers one
| person to act as Secretary of the Board, VINO
| shall receive an additional compensation OF one
| hundred dollars per annum.
| llS. The Sanitary Officers so appointed shall,
within ten days from the date of their appoint
ment, meet in Towson, and shall organize as a
| Board of Sanitary Officers for Baltimore county,
| and shall elect one of their number as Presl-
| dent; they shall meet quarterly in Iowson on
! such days in February, May, August and NO
vember as may be designated by the County
Commissioners they shall collectively, each for
| their respective districts, exercise all the pow
| ers and perform all the duties which have been
or which shall hereafter be prescribed by the
| General Laws of this State for Secretaries of
| Local Boards of Health, for which services they
| shall receive no further compensation; they
shall have general care of the sanitary interests
| of the residents of their respective districts,
| and shall make sanitary investigation and in
! quries respecting the causes of disease, es-
| pecially epidemics, and the causes of mortali-
ties; they shall inquire into and investigate all
nuisances affecting the health of the citizens OF
all towns or villages within their respective dis
tricts, and for this purpose they are authorized
| to go upon any premises or into any house in
any town or village, and upon full report OF
/ either of them to the County Commissioners of
the existence of any public or private nuisance
in any town or villsge or in the vicinity thereof
| they are authorized and empowered, upon the
approval and direction of SAID County Commits
| sioners, to apply to the Circuit Court for Bati-
| more county, or to either of the Judges of said
Court, by bill or petition, in the name of any OF
/ said Sanitary Officers, for an injunction to re-
| strain and prevent such nuisance; or upon the
| said report of said Sanitary officers of the ex-
istence of a nuisance, any of said Sanitary Off
GERS may be directed by the County Commits
sioners to give notice to the owner or occupie1
of any land or premises upon which said nui-
sanGe may exist to gepaye the thin
tice, and upon the failure, neglect or refusal of
the owner or occupier of any land or premises
| to comply with said notice, such owner or occu-
pier shall forfeit and pay for any such neglect
| or refusal the sum of twenty-five dollars and
| any of said Sanitary Officers, upon said neglect
| or refusal to remove said nuisance, shall cause
| the same to be removed at the expense of the
owner occupier of said land or premises said
| fine and expense of removal shall be collected
| by an action of debt before a Justice of the
| Peace of said county in the name of any of the
said Sanitary Officers for the use of the County
| Commissioners.
1l9. If any person shall knowingly obstruct
or resist any of said Sanitary Officers in the ex-
ecution of their powers, or in the performance
| of their duties, such person shall be deemed to
be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon indict-
ment and conviction in the Circuit Court for
| Baltimore county, shall be fined not less than
| twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dol
| lars, or be imprisoned, at the discretion of the
| Court, for not more than thirty days
120. 1t shall be the DUTY of the Police Officers
of Baltimore county to execute all orders of
any of the said Sanitary Officers, so far as they
may relate to the sanitary condition of said
| county.
| infectious disease within the county the County
| Commissioners shall be empowered to send one
| or all of said Sanitary Officers to the locality
where said epidemic exists, tor which services
| they shall receive no extra compensation.
122. The said Sanitary Officers are hereby
made sub-Registrars without additional COM
/ pensation, and Vaccine Physicians for their re-
spective districts, and it shall be their duty to
| vaccinate, free of charge, every child whose
| guardian or parents are too poor to pay for the
123. The County Commissioners are author
lied to employ. sufficient number of men
with horses and carts for the removal of gar
bage. ashes and all other offal in such tbiekly
! populated places as they shall consider neces-
| sary; and the said Sanitary Officers are author
lied and empowered to have control of the per-
| sons so employed as removers of garbage, and
| to report any failure or delinquency on their
part to the County Commissioners
| IA All residents of such places in Baltimore
| county as may be supplied with force for the
| collection of garbage, ashes and other offal,
shall be required to collect all offal accumu-
| lating in their premises into suitable recepta-
Giles, and put them in places convenient to the
removers of garbage and other offal; and any
! resident who shall allow such offal to accumu-
late on his premises without so collecting and
| so placing it, shall be subject to fine of not
less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars,
| for every such orense, to be recovered as other
| fines and costs are recovered.
125 And any person who shall commit nui-
sance by throwing any dead animal or offal of
| upon any vacant lot in any town or village in
Baltimore county, or in the vicinity thereof,
| shall be subject to fine of not less than one
| dollar, nor more than five dollars.
1876. Every owner of lot which is supplied
! with water from wells or springs, in any town
or village having more than five hundred in
habitants in Baltimore county, shall be required
| to place in each and every privy, watercloset or
| clubhouse water tight box for the reception of
| urinary and f9cal matter, under penalty of
five dollars for refusing or negecting to supply
| the same, and such box shall be emptied by the
| occupant, and it shall be the duty of the party
! occupying said premises to have the same emp
| tied whenever it may be full or requiring to be
| cleaned and any persons refusing or negecting
| to have such boxes emptied shall be subject to
fine of five dollars for every such offense. re-
coverable as other fines before Justice of the
| Peace Nothing contained in this section shall
| prevent any owner of property from having
| constructed upon his premises waterclosets or
privy vaults built on approved sanitary princi-
| pies.
*127. Any earth pits which may be now in use
| in any town or village of more than five hun
dred inhabitants in Baltimore county shall be
easy of access and shall be in their construction
and location subject to the inspection of the
| Sanitary Officers; and if found by the said Off
Gals to be effectively constructed or located,
the necessary changes ordered by the Sanitary