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<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>
