1088                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 723

CHAPTER 723
(House Bill 858)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 666 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Health", sub-title "Sanitary Districts", allowing the Sanitary
Commission of Charles County to proceed by way of condemnation
when offer is rejected for purchase of certain facilities in Charles
County, and matters generally relating thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 666 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Health", sub-title "Sanitary Districts", be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

666. After the passage of this sub-title, whenever the county or
the property owners or residents 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 county or persons may build and operate said system
at its or their own expense, but it shall be constructed under plans
and specifications prepared by the commission and under its super-
vision, 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 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 669 of this sub-
title. All construction 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 sewerage treatment plant, or
connect on with any of them in the same manner as provided under
Section 665 for systems existing at the time of the passage of this
sub-title. The commission shall be empowered to extend its water
supply, sewerage or drainage systems into any area outside of any
sanitary district contiguous thereto and not included in any other
district or in the vicinity thereof, when the property owners of said
area shall agree to the charges, assessments and conditions that may
be imposed by the commission as hereinbefore outlined. In Charles
County, when an offer by the Sanitary Commission to purchase in
the manner provided under Section 665 of the sub-title, a water
supply, sewerage or drainage system constructed under the pro-
visions of this section, is rejected or not accepted within 90 days by
the developer or builder, the Sanitary Commission shall have the
right to proceed in condemnation under the provision of Article S3 A.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.