430 ARTICLE 2.

and authority to establish sewerage or drainage systems in said county
whenever in their opinion public welfare or convenience may so require;
and shall further have power to provide by reasonable regulations for the
proper maintenance, preservation, protection, examination, inspection and
repair of the same, whether on public or private property, all such regu-
lations to be subject to approval by the State Board of Health of Mary-
land, and when so approved, to have all the force and effect of law. The
power so delegated shall be taken to include the power to open, alter, en-
large or straighten, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, any
sewer or drain, public or private through any public or private property,
to inspect and regulate house drainage and sewerage connections, both
public and private, to condemn lands or other property necessary in the
construction or maintenance of such sewerage system or systems and their
appurtenances, and to dispose of sewerage so collected by contract or
otherwise, to provide for the cost of such systems, and generally to do all
other and such things and pass such regulations as may reasonably be
necessary and proper to exercise the power and effect the objects herein
specified, the words "Sewerage System" as used in this and succeeding
sections to be taken to embrace all manner of methods for conducting and
disposing of ordinary sewerage and surface drainage, including house-
hold sewage and surface waters.

1922, ch. 369, sec. 186B.

244. Said Commissioners shall further have full power and authority
to provide by regulations, subject to approval by the State Board of
Health as aforesaid, for the taking of any private property or property
rights of any kind which may reasonably be necessary for any of the
purposes specified in this Act, including the acquisition of property or
property rights for the disposition of sewage, provided, however, that such
regulations shall contain appropriate provisions for notice to the owner
or owners of such property or rights, an opportunity to be heard and the
payment of compensation for property or property rights so taken and
also for an appeal by such owner to the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County, with the right to a jury trial on issue of fact involved in such
taking; and said Commissioners shall also have full power and authority
likewise to provide for ascertaining what amount of actual benefit will
accrue to the owner or possessors of any ground or improvements within
said county by reason of the construction or enlargement of such sewerage
system or systems, and to provide for assessing and levying the cost of
such work in whole or in part upon the owners of property so benefited
to the extent of such benefit, and for collecting the same, such assessment
to be made only after notice, with an opportunity to be heard and the
right of appeal as aforesaid, and when so made, to be a lien upon the
property of the person so assessed until paid, and to be recoverable as
county taxes are.