3 Pa. Stat. § 81

Current through P.A. Acts 2024-18
Section 81 - Use of night soil as fertilizer prohibited; "night soil" defined

It shall be unlawful to use night-soil as a fertilizer, or otherwise, on any ground on which vegetables of a variety or varieties which are eaten uncooked for human food are being grown: Provided, however, That the term "night-soil," for the purposes of this act, shall be construed to include only human excrement, and the contents of privy-wells; and that any such night-soil which shall have been treated by any process approved by the Commissioner of Health of the State Department of Health, to remove its objectionable features, shall not be within the prohibition of this act.

3 P.S. § 81

1913, May 20, P.L. 240, § 1.