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CHAP. 144
Repeal and
re-enact.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sub-section " Sewers " of Section 6, title " Gen-
eral Powers," of Article 4, entitled "City of Baltimore," of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
so as to read as follows: Sewers to provide for construction,
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To provide for
construction
opening, en-
larging, etc.,
of sewers.
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opening, enlarging or straightening, subject to the provisions
herein contained as to the Board of Public Improvements
and Board of Estimates, any sewer or drain, public or pri-
vate, through any private property to pave and keep in
repair, subject to the provisions herein contained as to the
Board of Public Improvements and Board of Estimates, all
necessary sewers and drains, and to pass all regula-
tions necessary for the preservation of the same, and to
authorize any person appointed by it or by the Commis-
sioner of Health or by the City Engineer, as hereinafter pro-
vided for that purpose, to enter upon the lands, grounds or
possessions of any person or body politic, through which the
common sewers or private sewers or drains run or may run,
to examine, inspect, regulate, make or repair the same;
such person, when not otherwise appointed by it, to be
appointed by the Commissioner of Health, if the sewer or
drain be a private sewer or drain, though connected with a
public sewer, so far as said private sewer or drain shall be
upon private property, and to be appointed by the City
Engineer for all other sewers or drains; and in the case of
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Repairs to be
made at the
expense of
owners of
property.
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private sewers or drains the regulation, making or repairing
of the same to be at the expense of the owners of the prop-
erty, real or leasehold, served by said sewers or drains; and
with power also to make any and all costs and expenses
incurred in or about the regulation, making or repairing of
private sewers or drains a lien upon the interests of the
owners in the real or leasehold property served by said
sewers or drains, with power also to provide for the enforce-
ment of such liens by sale of the property, whether real or
leasehold; to condemn any land or interest in laud in the
mode provided in this Article for the use of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore in the construction of any sewers
or sewerage system; to inspect and regulate house drainage
and sewerage connections, and to prescribe the kind and
quality of material to be used for such purposes; but all
work done in making, repairing or altering within private
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