ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. 431

1922, ch. 369, sec. 1860.

245. Said Commissioners shall have full power and authority to pro-
vide by regulation, subject to approval by the State Board of Health as
aforesaid, for the maintenance of such sewerage or drainage system or
systems when so constructed, the cost of such maintenance to be met in
whole by a special tax on the owners of property benefited thereby, or
otherwise, and by such regulations may prescribe the terms upon which
and the manner in which private connections with said system may be
made or maintained, and may prescribe penalties and provide for the en-
forcement 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 connec-
tions and all sums collected as penalties as aforesaid to be applied to the
maintenance of such sewers or drains.

1922, ch. 369, sec. 186D.

246. Said Commissioners may, by their regulations aforesaid, prescribe
the manner in which applications may be made by residents of said county
for the construction of sewerage systems for their respective communities
and the procedure upon such applications.

1922, ch. 369, sec. 186E

247. Said Commissioners, with the approval or upon the recommenda-
tion of the State Board of Health, may at any time require any owner
of property in Anne Arundel County to connect his said premises with
any public sewerage system reasonably near the same, established under
the provisions of this Act, and may, by their regulations aforesaid, pre-
scribe penalties for failure to make such connections.

1922, ch. 369, sec. 186F.

248. Whenever it happens in said county that there is any community
without adequate facilities for the disposal of sewage, and said Commis-
sioners may deem it inexpedient to construct a sewerage system at the
expense of said community as hereinbefore provided, and there is or may
be constructed or maintained by private enterprise a sewerage 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
community 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 community within such reasonable time and in such rea-
sonable manner as by said order may be prescribed to connect their respec-
tive premises with said private sewerage system; a duly certified copy of
which said order shall be transmitted by said State Board of Health to the
County Commissioners of said county, and there kept on file and of record,