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system to be established under this Act unless and until the said Commis-
sioners shall acquire the water supply system and property of such water
company; and nothing in this Act shall be taken to require any property
owner having upon such property owner's premises any spring or well
supplying water fit for domestic uses to close or fill up or abandon the
use of said spring or well or to connect such property owner's property or
premises with or (while the water of such spring or well continues fit for
domestic use) to take the supply of water for his or her premises from the
water supply system to be established under this Act. Nothing in this
Act shall be taken to require any property owner having a private sewer-
age system upon such property owner's own premises of the general type
known as or similar to the Waring System for the disposal of sewerage
originating on such property owner's own premises, to abandon the use of
the same, provided it shall be kept in efficient working and sanitary
condition, or (while said private sewerage system is kept in efficient and
sanitary condition) to require such owner to connect such property owner's
premises with the sewerage system to be established under this Act, unless
the State Board of Health shall so require. Any failure to make such
connections, or to make such changes on the property, or to obey any such
notice or order of the Commissioners within the time prescribed shall be
punishable by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for every calendar
month during which such connection shall not be made, or such work done,
after the expiration of the time prescribed, such prosecution to be had upon
warrant before any justice of the peace residing within Baltimore County,
with the right of appeal to the accused to the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County, said appeal to be taken within ten days from the date of conviction
before the justice of the peace. The Commissioners shall formulate, publish
and enforce a plumbing code, and shall prescribe such rules and regulations
governing the use of said water and sewer connections, and for the mainte-
nance and operation of their systems, as they may deem necessary; and
every person who shall make the personal service above prescribed shall
deliver to the person upon whom such service is made a copy of such
plumbing code and of such rules and regulations, and shall obtain from
such person upon whom such service is made a receipt of such copies as
aforesaid, or in default of such receipt shall file with the Commissioners
an affidavit that such copies have been delivered as aforesaid. Any viola-
tion of said code or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Commis-
sioners as above, upon the part of any person to whom such copies shall
have been delivered as aforesaid, shall be punishable by a fine not exceed-
ing one hundred dollars, upon conviction before any justice of the peace
residing within Baltimore County.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 9. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 335.

335. For the purpose of paying the interest and providing the sinking
fund for the bonds issued by the County Commissioners, as hereinafter
provided for the water supply, sewerage and drainage systems to be con-
structed, purchased or established under this Act, the Commissioners are