1324 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 539

ing in this Act shall be taken to require any water company,
whether incorporated or not. to close up, fill up or abandon
the use of any spring or well used by it to supply therefrom
to its customers or clients water fit for domestic uses or to
cease to supply its customers or clients with such water or to
connect its water supply system with the system to be estab-
lished under this Act unless and until the said Commissioners
shall acquire the water supply system and property of such
water company; and nothing in this Act shall be taken to re-
quire 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 un-
der this Act. Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require
any property owner having a private sewerage system upon
such property owners own premises of the general type known
as or similar to the Waring System for the disposal of sewage
originating on such property owner's own premises, to aban-
don the use of the same, provided it shall be kept in efficient
working and sanitary condition, or (while said private sewer-
age system is kept in efficient and sanitary condition) to re-
quire such owner to connect such property owner's premises
with the sewerage system to be established under this Act, un-
less the State Board of Health shall so require. Any failure
to make such connections, or to make such changes on the prop-
erty, 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 prose-
cution 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 convic-
tion 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 maintenance and op-
eration of their systems, as they may deem necessary; and
every person who shall make the personal service above pre-