LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 157]

the terms upon which and the manner in which private connec-
tions with said system may be made or maintained, and may
prescribe penalties and provide for the enforcement of the same
in cases where such connections are made without authority or
where persons obstruct or injure such sewers, or use the same
in a manner contrary to such regulations, all charges for private
connections and all sums collected as penalties as aforesaid to
be applied to the maintenance of such sewers or drains. Said

commissioners may also, when they deem it properly so to do,
provide for the construction or maintenance of such sewerage
systems in part out of the county funds, and may levy for the
amount so to be expended as levies are made for money to be

expended for other public purposes.

132 o. Said commissioners may, by their regulations afore-
said, prescribe the manner in which applications may be made
by residents of said county for the construction of sewerage

systems for their respective conmunities and the precedure upon
such applications.

132p. Said commissioners, with the approval or upon the
recommendation of the State Board of Health, may at any
time require any owner of property in Baltimore county to con-
nect his said premises with any public sewerage system reason-
ably near the same, established under the provisions of this act,
and may, by their regulations aforesaid, prescribe penalties for
failure to make such connections.

132Q. Whenever it happens in said county that there is any
community without adequate facilities for the disposal of sew-
age, and said commissioners may deem it inexpedient to con-
struct a sewerage system at the expense of said community or
at public expense, as hereinbefore provided, and there is or
may be constructed or maintained by private enterprise a sewer-
age system or disposal plant for public use, the State Board of
Health shall investigate such conditions, and if, after due
notice to all persons who may be directly affected by such order
and an opportunity given them to be heard, said State Board of
Health shall determine the sewerage conditions in said com-
munity are such as to be reasonably dangerous to public health
or to the health of the residents of such community, it shall be
the duty of said State Board of Health to pass an order so

declaring, and directing the owners or occupants of said com-
munity within such reasonable time and in such reasonable
manner as by said order may be prescribed to connect their
respective premises with said private sewerage system; a duly

certified copy of which said order shall be transmitted by said