Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1302 – Maintenance of privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse near stream supplying …
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(a) No person shall put or place, or permit to be put, placed or used, any privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse over or so near that the excrement or offal therefrom shall escape or run into any stream of running water within the limits of this State from which the inhabitants of any town, borough or city are wholly or in part furnished with water as a drink or beverage.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1302
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined $100. The Court shall order the nuisance to be abated immediately.
(c) The Superior Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of offenses under this section.
12 Del. Laws, c. 405, § ?3; Code 1915, § ?766; Code 1935, § ?772; 16 Del. C. 1953, § ?1302;