Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                  1363

PART, WHICH ARE IMPROPERLY CONSTRUCTED OR ARE
NOT OF SUFFICIENT CAPACITY OR WERE CONSTRUCTED
WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY FROM THE STATE DEPART-
MENT OF HEALTH SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THE LAW RE-
QUIRING THE SAME.

204Q. AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THIS SUB-TITLE, WHEN-
EVER THE COUNTY OR THE PROPERTY OWNERS OR RESI-
DENTS OF ANY LOCALITY IN A DISTRICT SHALL DESIRE
A WATER SUPPLY, SEWERAGE OR DRAINAGE SYSTEM, OR
PART THEREOF, TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN THAT COUNTY
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 COUN-
TY 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 THE COMMISSION AND UNDER ITS SUPERVI-
SION, AND ITS MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION SHALL BE
UNDER THE GENERAL CONTROL OF THE COMMISSION;
AND NO SUCH SYSTEM OR PART THEREOF, OR NO WATER
MAIN, SEWER, WATER PURIFICATION OR SEWAGE TREAT-
MENT 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 204U OF THIS SUB-TITLE. ALL CONSTRUC-
TION AND OPERATING RECORDS, INCLUDING COST REC-
ORDS, 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 TREAT-
MENT PLANT, OR CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THEM IN
THE SAME MANNER AS PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 204P
FOR SYSTEMS EXISTING AT THE TIME OF THE PASSAGE OF
THIS SUB-TITLE. THE COMMISSION SHALL BE EMPOW-
ERED TO EXTEND ITS WATER SUPPLY, SEWERAGE OR
DRAINAGE SYSTEMS INTO ANY AREA OUTSIDE OF ANY
SANITARY DISTRICT CONTIGUOUS THERETO AND NOT IN-
CLUDED IN ANY OTHER DISTRICT OR IN THE VICINITY
THEREOF, WHEN THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF SAID AREA
SHALL AGREE TO THE CHARGES, ASSESSMENTS AND CON-
DITIONS THAT MAY BE IMPOSED BY THE COMMISSION AS
HEREINBEFORE OUTLINED.

204R. The Commission may enter upon and excavate any State,
county or municipal street, road or alley, or any other public high-
way, for the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the
water supply, sewerage or drainage systems provided for under this
sub-title, and it may construct in any such street, road, alley or
public highway, a water main, sewer or drain or any appurtenance
thereof, without the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge;
provided, that whenever any State, county or municipal highway is
to be disturbed the public authority having control thereof shall be
duly notified; and provided further, that said highway shall be re-
paired and left by the Commission in the same condition as, or in a