The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-24
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LOCAL LAW.
CHAPTER SIS.

Article forty-three of the Code of Public Gen
eral Laws of Maryland, title Heaitn sd os SUD 10
same relate to Baltimore county also 70 re-
peal Chapter four hundred and sixty OF the
passed at the January Session 1894, entitled
sAn Act to repeal Sections l. 2, ana Oh Cnap-
ter 6l4 of the Acts of the General assembly empty
1890, amending certain Sections of Article .,
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title Baltl-
more County, subtitle Health and Sanitary
Officers,'n and to re-enact the same with
amendments and additions thereto; also to re,
peal Chapter 59l of the Acts of the General
Session SSiE Of 1900. entitled An Act to provide
for Sanitary officer for the 18th Election dis
Sections III lis lis. 100 i2i 12S. iSs 124, I25.
1876 l27, 12S, I29 13O, 131 and 1872 of Article of
the Code of Public Local Laws. title "Baltl-
more County," subtitle Health and Sanitary
Officers,'' and to re-enact the same with
Section /. BE it enacted by the General As
semhiv Of MARYLAND. THAT Sections 10 and ID of
Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws
Of Maryland, title Heath" subtitle state state
repealed so far as they relate to Baltimore
county.
Section g. And be It enacted That Chapter
Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1874,
entitled 'An Act to repeal Sections !, 2, and
of Chapter GA of the Acts of the General As
sembly 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
cers," and to re-enact the same with amend
ments and additions thereto, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
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
trict of Baltimore county" is hereby repeated
and also that Sections III, 118, 49, l20 12l 122.
123, 124 125 126. 127, 12S 129 13O l3l and l3S OF
article OF the C9ae OF rn9c Locai dws G
Health and Sanitary Officers" be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
III. The County Commissioners shall, on the
first Tuesday in May, 1902, and on the first 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 for the Second
Election District, with salary of one hundred
and twenty five dollars per annum !; one such
officer for the Third district, with a salary of
two hundred and fifty dollars per annum one
such officer for the Fourth Election District.
with salary of one hundred and fifty dollars
per annum one such officer for the Fifth Elec-
ton District, with salary of one hundred and
twenty five dollars per annum; one such officer
for the Sixth Election District, with salary of
one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum
one such officer for the Seventh Election Dis
trics, with a salary of one hundred and twenty
five,dolars per annum; one such officer for the
Eighth Election District, with salary OF two
hundred and fifty dollars per annum one such
officer for the Ninth Election District. with a
salary of three hundred dollars; one such Off
Ger for the Tenth district, with salary of one
Ger for the Eleventh district, with a salary of
two hundred dollars; one such officer for tue
Twelfth district, with salary OF three hundred
dollars; one such officer for the Thirteenth dis
trict, with salary of two hundred and htty
dollars one such officer for the Fourteenth dis
trict, with salary of two hundred dollars, and
one such officer for the Fifteenth district, with
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 Oh one
hundred dollars per annum
1lS. 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
they is ns meet gns On and No
vember as may be designated by the County
Commissioners; they shall collectively, each foI
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
Quiries respecting the causes of disease, es-
pecially epidemics, and the causes of mortal,
ties; they shall inquire into and investigate al
nuisances affecting the health of the citizens OF
all towns 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 o1
either of them to the County Commissioners OF
the existence of any public or private nuisance
in any town or village or in the vicinity thereof
they are authorized and empowered, upon the
approval and direction of said County Commis
sioners, to apply to the Circuit Court for Balt1,
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 OH
sioners to give notice to the owner or occupiel
of any land or premises upon which said nui
sance may exist to remove the same withi1
forty-eight hours after the service of said no
tice, and upon the failure, neglect or refusal oi
the owner or occupier of any land or premise;
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 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-
eeution OF ther powers, or IN ane P Is
be guilty of misdemeanor, and, upon indict
ment and conviction in the Circuit Court 10
Baltimore county. shall be fined not less thar
twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred DOL
lars, or be imprisoned. at the discretion OF thu
Court, for not more than thirty days.
100. It shall be the duty of the Police Officers
of Baltimore county to execute all orders O
any of the said Sanitary Officers, so far as they
may relate to the sanitary condition Oh sal'
county.
III. In case of any epidemic or contagious o.
infectious disease within the county, tne count!
Commissioners shall be empowered to send ont
or all of said Sanitary Officers to the locality
where said epidemic exists. for which services
they shall receive no extra compensation.
l22 The said Sanitary Officers are hereby
made sub Registrars without additional com
pensation, and Vaccine Physicians for tnelr re
cfninf nNNd
vaccinate, free of charge, every chlld wnos'
guardian or parents are too poor to pay for tn
49, The County Commissioners are author
lied to employ sufficient number of mel
with horses and carts for the removal OF gar
bage. ashes and all other otfal in such th1ckll
populated places as they shall consider neces
sary; and the said Sanitary Officers are author
ized and empowered to have control of the per
sons so employed as removers of garbage, anC
to report any failure or delinquency on thei
part to the County Commissioners.
l24. All residents of such places in Baltimore
county as may be supplied with force for tn,
collection of garbage. ashes and other offal
shall be required to collect all offal accumu
lafinp in their premises into suitable recepta
cles and put them in places convenient to th
removers of garbage and other ORAL; and an.
resident who shall allow such ofal TO accumu
late on his premises without so collecting anC
so placing it, shall be subject to tine OF no
less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars
for every such ofiense to be recovered as othel
fines and costs are recovered,
l25. And any person who shall commit nui
sqnce by throwing any deau amman VI quar-
any kind into any highway, hyway or alley,
upon any vacant lot in any town or village y
Baltimore county, or in the vicinity thereon
shall be subject to fine of not less tnan on
dollar, nor more than five dollars.
1885, Every owner of lot which is suppne
with water from wells or springs, in any tow
or village having more than FIVE hundred II, IN
habitants in Baltimore county, shall be require
to place in each and every privy, watercloset o
clubhouse a water-tight box for the reception o
urinary and fRcal matter, under penalty Q
five dollars for refusing or negleoting to suppl
the same, and such box shall be emptied by tn
occupant, and it shall be the duty of the part
occupying said premises to have the same emp
tied whenever it may be full or requiring to b
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