Section 1. Removal of contents of privy wells without license prohibited
No person shall remove, or cause, or allow to be removed, the contents of any privy well or sink within the limits of the jurisdiction of the board of health, without first being licensed by the board of health to do so, and every person offending against the provisions of this section shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay to the board of health the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered as debts of that amount are by law recoverable, and also be liable to indictment at common law for creating or maintaining a nuisance. The city councils shall, from time to time, exempt from the operation of any statute law, conferring on the board of health, jurisdiction of the subject of nuisances such portions of the territory under their jurisdiction, being a rural district or sparse in population, as in their opinion they can do with safety to the health and comfort of the inhabitants thereof, which exemption shall at all times be revocable by the like authority. (1855, March 16, P.L. 89, Sec. 1.)