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been offered as an inducement for the purchase of lot or land therein, the
jury shall deduct from the determined value of the plant or system such
sum as it may reasonably determine was added to the purchase price of
said land or lots in the sale thereof for the purpose of constructing said
systems. Privately owned systems shall be taken under said condemna-
tion by the Commission free and clear of all debts and liens, but said
Commission shall make a party defendant any person, firm or corpora-
tion having any record lien or encumbrance against the same, and the
Circuit Court is hereby empowered and authorized to determine the respec-
tive amounts due the defendants, and from and after payment into Court
or to the proper parties, the Commission shall be authorized to take
possession of, maintain and operate said system, whether private or munici-
pal, as a part of its general system, and from the date of such payment
all properties along the line of any water main or sewer of the system so
acquired shall stand in the same relation, bear the same benefit assess-
ment, and be subject to the same regulations and penalties, as though the
system so acquired had been constructed and put into operation by the
Commission under the provisions of this Act; provided, however, that na
building or premises actually connected in an adequate manner with the
said acquired system at the time of its purchase shall be required to pay
any connection charge. Wherever 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
system, the Commission shall disregard the existence of said system or
unfit part thereof and extend its system to serve the area tributary to
the existing 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 the 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 Commis-
sion may, as a part of the purchase price of said system, assume the
payment of any such outstanding bonds. The Commission shall not
purchase any existing water, sewer mains or systems, in whole or in part,
which are improperly constructed, or are not of sufficient capacity or were
constructed without proper authority from the State Department of
Health since the passage of the Act requiring the same.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 18.

440. 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 drainage system, or part thereof, to be
constructed in that municipality or locality, and the Commission shall
decide that it is inexpdient or impracticable at that time, owing to the
remoteness from its general system or other causes, to build such system,
such municipality or persons may build and operate said system at its
own expense, but it shall be constructed under plans and specification
prepared by the Commission and under its supervision, and its mainte-