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or drainage, by the connection of the sewers or drains of Baltimore County
within the Metropolitan District with those of Baltimore City or Anne
Arundel County, or vice versa, or with regard to any other matter neces-
sary for the proper construction or operation of the water supply, sewer-
age or drainage systems under their control. The costs or other fees for
such connections shall be determined by agreement between the proper
authorities of Baltimore City or Anne Arundel County and the Baltimore
County Commissioners.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 8. B. Co. C. (1928). sec. 334,

334. The Commissioners shall provide for each and every property
abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this Act, a water
main and/or sanitary sewer is laid, one or more water and/or sewer
connections, as may be necessary, which shall be extended as required from
the water main and/or sewer to the property line of the abutting lot,
said connections to be constructed by and at the sole expense of the Com-
missioners, except that such water connections as are or can be made from
water mains owned, operated or constructed by the City of Baltimore,
as hereinbefore provided for in Section 331, shall be constructed by the
City of Baltimore and the cost shall be met as already specified in Section
331. When any water main or sewer is declared by the Commissioners
complete and ready for the delivery of water or the reception of sewage,
and water or sewer connection pipes have been laid to the several lot lines,
the Commissioners shall notify the owner or tenant of every dwelling
house, public building, factory, manufacturing plant or other establish-
ment where people live, assemble or are regularly employed, or of every
building where sanitary fixtures are, or in the judgment of the Commis-
sioners should be installed, that a connection of all hydrants or spigots,
toilets and drains shall be made with said water main or sewer, the said
connection pipes of which have been laid to the lotline of such house,
building, factory, plant or other establishment within a time prescribed by
the Commissioners, such notice to be given by means of personal service
upon such owner or tenant or person in charge of such house, building,
factory, plant or other establishment, and where the aforesaid fixtures do
not exist, or are of a nature which, in the judgment of the Commissioners,
is improper or inadequate, the Commissioners shall give further notice by
such personal service as aforesaid that satisfactory equipment shall bo
installed; and in all cases in which such connection shall be ordered as
aforesaid the Commissioners may also give notice by such personal service
as aforesaid that all wells, cesspools, waste drains, and privies shall be
abandoned, removed or left in such way that they cannot again be used
nor injuriously affect the public health, said disposition to be determined
by the Commissioners. Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require any
water company, whether incorporated or not, to close up, fill up or abandon
the use of any spring or well used by it to supply therefrom to its customers
or clients water fit for domestic uses or to cease to supply its customers or
clients with such water or to connect its water supply system with the