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and after the payment into court or to the proper parties, said
Commission shall be authorized to take possession of, main-
tain and operate said system, whether private or municipal,
as a part of its general system, and from the date of such pay-
ment all properties along the line of any water main or sewer
of the system so acquired shall stand in the same relation, bear
the same benefit assessment, and be subject to the same regu-
lations and penalties, as though the system so acquired had
been constructed and put into operation by the said Commis-
sion under the provisions of this Act; provided, however, that
no building or premises, actually connected in an adequate
manner with said acquired system at the time of its purchase,
shall be required to pay the connection charge specified under
Section 11. Wherever there is in existence a privately owned
water supply or sewerage system which in the judgment of the
Commission is unfit, as a whole or in part, for incorporation
with the Commission's system, the Commission shall disregard
the existence of said system or unfit part thereof and extend
its system to serve the area tributary to the existing system
or unfit part thereof, and all the provisions of this Act relating
to systems constructed by the Commission shall apply to said
extension. Any municipality whose system is acquired by
said Commission, whether by purchase or condemnation, is
hereby authorized to use the amount paid to it for said system
for the purchase or redemption 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 outstanding bonds.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That, after the passage
of this Act, whenever a municipality or the property owners
or residents of any locality in the Sanitary District shall desire
a water. supply, sewerage or drainage system, or part thereof,
to be constructed in that municipality or locality, and the
Commission shall decide that it is inexpedient or impracticable
at that time, owing to remoteness from its general system or
other cause, to build, such system, such municipality or persons
may build and operate said system at its or their own expense,
but it shall be constructed under plans and specifications pre-
pared by said Commission and under its supervision, and its
maintenance and operation shall be under the general control
of the Commission, which engineering and supervisory service
shall be rendered by the Commission free of charge; and no
such system or part thereof, or no water main, sewer, storm-