Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 531
Section 1302 - Maintenance of privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse near stream supplying drinking water; nuisance; abatement; penalty; jurisdiction(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.(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.;