1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FIFTH BIENNIAL RKPOKT.
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water .sni)ply and dis}n)sal of sewage, and no contraet sliall be entered
into by any State institution, city or town for the introduction of a system
of water supply or sewage dis})osal until said advice shall have
been received and considered: Pruriiled, Jiou-frcr, that any city or town
having a regularly organized Board of Health may seek advice therefrom
or from its County Boai'd of Health in lieu of that of the State Board.
Sec. 20. "Whoever willfully or maliciously defiles, corrupts or makes
impure any well, spring or otlier .source of water supply or reservoir, or
destroys or injures any pii)e, conductor of water or other property pertaining
to an aqueduct, or aids and abets in any such trespass, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not exceeding
one thousand dollars or imprisoned not exceeding one year.
Sec. 21. Any hou.seholder in whose family there is to his knowledge a
person sick of cholera or typhoid fever, who shall permit the bowel discharges
of such sick person to be emptied without first having disinfected
them according to the instructions to be obtained from the attending
physician or the County Superintendent of Health shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than two nor
more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisoned not less than ten norjnore
than thirty days. And in cases where such undisinfected discharges are
emptied on the water shed of any stream or pond furnishing the source
of water supply of any public institution, city or town the penalty .shall
be a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, or
imprisonment for not more than thirty days. And any i)hysician attending
a case of cholera or typhoid fever who refuses or neglects to give the
proper instructions for such disinfection as soon as the diagnosis is made
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be
fined not less than ten nor more tlian fifty dollars.
Sec. 22. Whenever and wherever a nui.sance upon premises shall exist
which in the opinion of the County Superintendent of Health is dangerous
to the public health, it shall be his duty to notify in writing the
parties occupying the premises (or the owner, if the premises are not
occupied) of its existence, its character and the means of abating it.
X^pon
this notification the pjarties shall proceed to abate the nuisance, but failing
to do this shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall pay a
fine of one dollar a day dating from twenty-four hours after the notification
has been served, the amounts so collected to he turned over to the
County Treasurer: Prodded, hoiren'r, that if the party notified shall
make oath or afiirmation before a justice of the peace of his or her
inability to carry out the directions of the Superintendent it shall 1)6
done at the expense of the town, citj' or county in which the offender
lives.
In the latter case the limit of the expense chargeable to the town^
city or county shall not be more than one hundred dollars in any case:
ProriV/cr^ /*);//(('/•, that nothing in this section shall be construed to give