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tion 380E, wherein no powers of condemnation are authorized
against the property belonging to the State or any political
sub-division thereof.

381C. Privately owned systems shall be taken under said
condemnation by the Commission free and clear of all debts
and liens, but said Commission shall make a party defendant
any person, firm or corporation having any recorded lien or
incumbrance against the same, and the Circuit Court is hereby
empowered and authorized to determine the respective
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, 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 as acquired shall stand in the same
relation, bear the same benefit assessment, 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 sub-title; provided,
however, that no 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.

381D. Any municipality whose system is acquired by the
Commission by purchase is hereby authorized to use the
amount paid to it for said system for the purchase or redemp-
tion of any bonds or debt which may be outstanding against
the same or the Commission may as a part of the purchase
price of said system, assume the payment of any such out-
standing bonds.

381E. After the passage of this sub-title, whenever the
property owners or residents of the LaVale Sanitary District
shall desire a water supply, sewerage or drainage system, or
part thereof, to be constructed in that locality, and the Com-
mission shall decide that it is inexpedient 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 specifications pre-
pared by the Commission and under its supervision, and its
maintenance and operation shall be under the general control
of the Commission; and no such system or part thereof, or no
water main, sewer, storm drain, water purification or sewage
treatment plant, or no connection with any of them, shall be
constructed or installed except as in this section provided,
and any violation of this provision shall be a misdemeanor
punishable under Section 381J of this sub-title. All construc-
tion and operating records, including cost records, shall be