WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1785

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. Whenever 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 incorpora-
tion 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 sub-title relating to systems constructed by the Com-
mission shall apply to said extension. Any municipality
whose system is acquired by the Commission, whether by
purchase or condemnation, 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 bond. The Commission shall not purchase any exist-
ing water mains, sewers or systems, in whole or in part,
which are improperly constructed or are not of sufficient
capacity or were constructed without proper authority from
the State Department of Health since the passage of the Act
requiring the same.

463-Q. After June 1, 1949, whenever a municipality or the
property owners or residents of any locality in the Metro-
politan 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 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 prepared by the
Commission and under its supervision, and its maintenance
and operation shall be under the general control of the Com-
mission; 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 463U of this sub-title. All con-
struction and operating records, including cost records, shall
be filed with the Commission, which shall be empowered at
any time to take over said system or part thereof, or said
water main, sewer, storm water drain, water or sewage