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<subtitle article="gen" title_number="10" subtitle_number="3" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
  <section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-301" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <text>A person who refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of a notice served under § 10-201 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-302" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <level label="a">
      <text>A person who fails to exercise due diligence under a court order to abate a condition under § 10-202 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>A fine not exceeding $10 for each day the condition is not abated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The cost of prosecution.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>A person who knowingly or willfully acts contrary to a court order to abate a condition under § 10-202 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>A fine not exceeding $20 for each day the violation continues; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>The cost of prosecution.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-303" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <text>In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days or both, if the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Interferes with the Secretary or a representative of the Secretary summarily abating a nuisance under § 10-203 of this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Refuses to allow the Secretary or a representative of the Secretary to enter on any property for the purpose of summarily abating a nuisance under § 10-203 of this title.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
  <section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-304" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <text>A person who violates any rule or regulation that the Secretary adopts under Subtitle 1 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine for each offense not exceeding the lesser of the penalty provided by the rule or regulation or $100.</text>
  </section>
  <section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-305" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
    <level label="a">
      <text>In this section, “nuisance” includes:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Any condition that is dangerous to health or safety, such as an inadequately protected swimming pool or ditch;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Any condition that may adversely affect the public health, such as an unsanitary outhouse, a foul pigpen, an improperly functioning sewage system, an unkempt junkyard, an unkempt 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;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>Housekeeping in any building that is so poor that the health of the owner, occupants, employees, or neighbors may be endangered; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>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.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="b">
      <text>In Cecil County or Allegany County, 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 by 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.</text>
    </level>
  </section>
</subtitle>