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constructed under the provisions of Sections 348A-348E, including over-
head expense and proper depreciation allowance, municipal authorities shall
have full power and authority to make such service rates as they may deem
necessary, chargeable against all properties served by a water main, sewer,
drain or refuse disposal system under their ownership. Service rates shall
be subject to change from time to time as said authorities deem necessary.
Said rates shall be payable at such times, and shall be subject to such penal-
ties for non-payment, as said authorities may determine, and they shall
be collectible against the owner of the property served, in the same man-
ner as other debts are collectible at law.

1927, ch. 641, sec. 34SH.

348H. Municipal authorities shall be empowered and authorized to
formulate and cause to be effective such rules and regulations as they may

deem necessary for maintaining and operating water supply, sewerage,

drainage and refuse disposal systems under their control, and may formu-
late and put into effect plumbing regulations, which shall govern the in-
stallation and alteration of all water supply, plumbing and drainage ar-
rangements on private property. Said authorities may require that no
water supply, plumbing or drainage work be done on any private property
without the receipt of a permit and without the payment of such charge
as they may deem reasonable. Any violation of any rule or regulation
promulgated under authority of this section shall be misdemeanor, pun-
ishable under Section 348-O.

1927. ch. 641. sec. 348-I.

348-I. Municipal authorities are authorized and empowered to take over
by purchase or condemnation any privately owned water supply, sewerage

drainage or refuse disposal system. Such condemnation proceedings shall
be in accordance with the provisions of Section 348B. When any such pri-
vate system is taken possession of, said, authorities may extend or alter and
maintain or operate said system in conjunction with their general system,
and thereafter all properties along the lines of said privately owned sys-
tems, so taken over, shall stand in the same relation, bear the same bene-
fit assessment, and be subject to the same regulations and penalties as
though the system so acquired had been constructed and put into opera-
tion by said authorities; provided, however, that said authorities may take
into account and compensate for any portion of the cost of constructing
the privately owned system that they may determine to have been paid by
properties abutting upon any portion of said system. Whenever there is in
existence a privately owned water supply, sewerage, drainage or refuse dis-
posal system, which, in the judgment of said authorities is unfit as a whole

or in part for incorporation into the general system established by said au-
thorities, said authorities may disregard the existence of said system or
unfit part thereof, and extend their system to serve the area, tributary to

the existing private system or unfit part thereof, and all the provisions of