Section 2
SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, or for any order or society of persons, or for any corporation or corporations, or for any church or other organization whatsoever, to bury or inter the dead, or to use any land or lands, in any way whatsoever, as a burial place or as temporary or permanent place of interment or disposal of the dead, within fifty meters of either side of any river, or within fifty meters of any spring, well, or other source of water supply: Provided, That the Director of Health may, in his discretion, authorize the continuance of any burial ground, cemetery, or other place for the temporary or permanent disposal of the dead, not meeting the requirements of this section, which may have been established prior to the passage of this Act.