The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-17
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DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER 5l5.

ter GA of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland. passed at the January Session
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title 'Balti
more County subtitle Health and Sanitary
amendments and additions thereto; /; also to re-
peal Chapter 59l of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at January
for a Sanitary Officer for the 18th Election dis
trict of Baltimore county" and also to repeal
Sections H. u.s. 119, 120, 121, l22, 123, 124 125
126, 1877 128, 129 100, 131 and 132 of Article OF
the Code of Public Local Laws. title "Balti-
more County" !" subtitle Health and Sanitary
Officers" and to re-enact the same with
Section l. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly Of Maryland; That S Sections 10 and 10 of OF
Of 0f t1e tte Sa sate
Board Of HEALTH" be and the same are hereby
repealed 30 far as they relate to Baltimore
county.
400 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1884,
entitled IAN Act to repeal Sections l, 2, and
of Chapter 6l4 of the Acts of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed at January Session
1890, amending cert in Sections of Article OF
County sui. title Health and Sanitary OH
cers,'" and TO re-enact the same with amend
ments and additions thereto, be and the same is
Section 5. And be it enacted, That Chapter
sol of the Acts of 1900 entitled IAN Act to pro-
vide Sanitary officer for the 18th Election Dis
and also that Sections III, 11S, 49, 120, l21 122,
123 l24. 1885, 126. 127. 128 129 $780, 13l and l32 Of
Article of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title Baltimore County" subtitle
Health and Sanitary Officers" be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read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 first Tues
day in May each year thereaf er, appoint fifteen
experienced physicians. residents of Baltimore
county, to serve as Sanitary OHicers viz: One
such officer for the First Election District of
said county, with salary of three hundred dol
lars per annum; one such officer Tor the Second
Election District, with salary of one hundred
and twenty y-five dollars per annum one such
officer for the Third district with salary of
two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one
with salary of one hundred and fifty dollars
per anDum; one such officer for the Fifth Elec-
tion District. with salary of one hundred and
twenty-five dollars per annum one such officer
for the Sixth Election District, with a salary of
one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum /;
one such officer for the Seventh Election Dis
trict, with salary of one hundred and twenty
five dollars per anDum; one such officer for the
Eighth Election District with a salary of two
hundred ia and ID fifty dollars per a1num one such
salary of three hundred dollars; one such Off
Ger for the Tenth district, with salary of one
hundred and twenty five dollars one such Off
Ger for the Eleventh district, with a salary of
two hundred dollars; one such officer for the
Twelfth district, with salary of three hundred
dollars; one such officer for the Thirteenth dis
trict, with a salary of two hundred and fifty
dollars one such officer for the Fourteenth dis
trfct, 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 ap-
point from said Board of Sanitary Officers one
person to act as Secretary of the Board, who
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 Presi
dent; they shall meet quarterly in Towson on
such days in February, May, August and No
Cyem6er C aa as may be designated by the County
their respective districts. exercise all the pow
ers and perform all the duties which have been
or which shall hereafter be prescribed by the
Local Boards of Health for which services they
shall receive no further compensation; they
of the residents of their respective districts,
and shall make sanitary investigation and in
quiries respecting the causes OF disease, us es
ties they shall inquire into aud investigate all
nuisances affecting the health of the citizens of
tricts, and for this purpose they are authorized
to go upon any premises or into any house in
any town or village, and upon a full report of
either of them to the County Commissioners OF
the existence of any public or private nuisance
in any town village or in the vicinity thereof,
they are authorized and empowered, upon the
approval and direction OF sad County Commis-
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 Commis-
sioners to give notice to the owner or occupier
of any land or premises upon which said nui-
sance may exist, to remove the same within
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 or occupier of said land or premises; said
fine and expense of removal shall be collected
by an action of debt before Justice of the
said Sanitary Officers for the use of the County
Commissioners.
Il9. 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.
121. In case of any epidemic or contagious or
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, for which services
they shall receive no extra compensation.
122. The said Sanitary Oficers are hereby
made sub Registrars without additional COM
pensatioD, 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
service,
l23. The County Commissioners are author
lied to employ a sufficient number of men
with horses and carts for the removal of gar
bage. ashes and all other offal in such thickly
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.
124. 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-
cles, and put them in places % conysnient n to the
resident who shall allow such onal to accumu-
late on his premises without so collecting and
so placing it, shall be subject to tne of not
less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars,
for every such offense, to be recovered as other
fines and costs are recovered.
I25, And any person who shall commit nui-
sance by throwing any dead animal or offal of
any kind into any highway, byway or alley, or
upon any vacant lot in any town or village in
Baltimore county, or in the vicinity thereof,
shall be subject to a fine of not less than one
dollar, nor more than five dollars.
126 Every owner of a 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 fRcal matter, under a penalty OF
five dollars for refusing or neglecting 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 neglecting
to have such boxes emptied shall be subject to
fine of five dollars for every such offense, re-
coyerable as other fines before a Justice of the
Peace. Nothing contained in this section shall
prevent any owner OF property from having
tonstructed upon his premises waterclosets or
privy vaults built on approved sanitary princi-
sI27. ANY earth pits which may be now In use
in any town or village of more than tive hum
dred Inhabitants. in Baltimore county shall be
easv of access and shall be in their construction
and location subject to the inspection OF the
Sanitary Officers; and If found by the said ON
cials to be defectively constructed or iocateo,
the necessary changes ordered Dy tne SANITARY
Officers shall be made, and in the neglect or re,
fusal of said property owners to have placed
such boxes, or to have them made or locateo as
in the judgment of the Sanitary Ofncers seems
best, in either case fine OF nve doilars snall De
imposed In the manner prescribed IN ceotlon Ilo.
l24. 1t shall be unlawful to bury the contents
of privies or other offal, or deposit the same
within half a mile of the limits OF any town OF
village having more than five hundred lnnaDi-