If any owner, agent or tenant of any property in any town or city suffers the privy well thereon to be so full that any 2 members of the local board of health declare the same to be a nuisance, such owner, the owner's agent and tenant in possession or any of them shall be responsible and after notice unless such privy is cleansed within one week after such notice shall for every offense be fined not less than $1 nor more than $20, with costs of suit, and stand committed to the county jail until the same be paid or until discharged by law.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 3. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH
§ 301. Appointment and membership outside Wilmington; vacancies and removal.
§ 302. Officers; meetings; quorum; secretary.
§ 303. General powers; quarantine regulations.
§ 305. Cleansing or closing unfit dwellings; recovery of expenses.
§ 306. Cleansing diseased places; recovery of expenses.
§ 307. Neglected privy well; penalty.
§ 308. Slaughterhouse; use as nuisance; penalty.
§ 309. Placing or maintaining offensive matters in public places; penalty.
§ 310. Abatement of nuisances.
§ 311. Entry for destruction or removal of nuisances.
§ 312. Removal of infected persons; taking possession of condemned premises.
§ 313. Care of persons having infectious or contagious disease.
§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.