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any water main or sewer of the system so acquired shall stand in the
same relation, bear the same benefit assessment, and be subject to the same
regulations and penalties, as though the system so acquired had been con-
structed and put into operation by the said Commission under the provi-
sions of this Act; provided, however, that no building or premises, actually
connected in an adequate manner with said acquired system at the time
of its purchase, shall be required to pay the connection charge specified
under Section 1001. Whenever there is in existence a privately owned
water supply or sewerage system which in the judgment of the Commission
is unfit, as a whole or in part, for incorporation with the Commission's sys-
tem, the Commission shall disregard the existence of said system or unfit
part thereof and extend its system to serve the area tributary to the exist-
ing system or unfit part thereof, and all the provisions of this Act relating
to systems constructed by the Commission shall apply to said extension.
Any municipality whose system is acquired by said Commission, whether
by purchase or condemnation, is hereby authorized to use the amount
paid to it for said system for the purchase or redemption of any bonds
or debt which may be outstanding against the same; or the Commission
may, as a part of the purchase price of said system, assume the payment
of any such outstanding bonds.

1918, ch. 122, sec. 16.

1006. After the passage of this Act, whenever a municipality or the-
property owners or residents of any locality in the Sanitary District shall
desire a water supply, sewerage or dainage system, or part thereof, to be
constructed in that municipality or locality, and the Commission shall
decide that it is inexpedient or impracticable at that time, owing to
remoteness from its general system or other cause, to build such system,
such municipality or persons may build and operate said system at its
or their own expense, but it shall be constructed under plans and specifica-
tions prepared by said Commission and under its supervision, and its
maintenance and operation shall be under the general control of the Com-
mission, which engineering and supervisory service shall be rendered by
the Commission free of charge; and no such system or part thereof, or
no water main, sewer, storm-water drain, water purification or sewage
disposal plant, or no connection with the above, shall be constructed or
installed except as above provided, and any violation of this provision
shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 1011 of this subtitle.
All construction and operating records, including cost records, shall be
filed with the Commission, which shall be empowered at any time to
take over said system or part thereof, or said water main, sewer, storm-
water drain, water purification or sewage disposal plant, or connection
with the above, in the same manner as provided under Section 1005 for
systems existing at the time of the passage of this Act. The Commission
shall be empowered to extend its water supply, sewerage, drainage and
refuse disposal systems into any area outside of the Sanitary District con-
tiguous thereto or in the vicinity thereof, whenever the property owners