THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1505

ment plant, reservoir, water treatment plant, storage tank
or pumping station or for the execution by the Commission
of any other power or function vested in it by this Act, said
Commission may purchase the same from the owners, or
failing to agree with the owner or owners thereof, may con-
demn the same by proceedings in the Circuit Court for the
county in which said land, structures or buildings, stream
bed, waterway, water rights or watershed is located, as are
provided for condemnation of land by public service cor-
porations in the Public General Laws of Maryland, now or
hereafter in effect, and said Commission may likewise con-
demn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person hav-
ing any right or interest in said land, structures or build-
ings, stream bed, waterway, water rights or watershed. At
any time after ten days after the return and recordation of
the verdict or award in said proceedings, the Commission
may enter and take possession of the property so con-
demned, upon first paying to the Clerk of the Court the
amount of said award and all costs taxed to that date, not-
withstanding any appeal or further proceedings upon the
part of the defendant. At the time of said payment, how-
ever, the Commission shall give its corporate undertaking
to abide by and fulfill any judgment in such appeal or
further proceedings.

430C. Whenever twenty-five property owners, residing
in any locality in Harford County, shall in writing, signed
with their respective names and addresses, petition the
Commission to have said locality, (the boundaries whereof
shall be definitely stated in said petition) constituted as a
new sanitary district, the Commission, if it approves, shall
cause to be made a preliminary engineering survey of the
project to determine the feasibility and probable cost of
providing such area with utilities, whether water, sewer
or otherwise. If the Commission disapproves of the project
or is unable or unwilling to undertake or obtain such pre-
liminary engineering survey, it shall so inform the peti-
tioners by mail giving to each of said petitioners an esti-
mate of the cost of making or obtaining such a preliminary
engineering survey and no further action shall be taken
on said project unless and until the persons signing the
petition therefor cause the estimated cost of such pre-
liminary engineering survey to be paid to the Commission,
who shall then proceed to make or obtain such preliminary
engineering survey. As soon as the data from such pre-
liminary engineering survey is available, the Commission
shall call a meeting of the owners of property in said dis-

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