J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      981

sewer service charge remains unpaid for sixty days after being sent
by the Commission, it shall be collectible from the owner of the prop-
erty served in the same manner [as other debts] , and subject to the
same interest, as taxes are collectible in the county or counties in
which the sanitary district or sanitary districts lie, and shall be a
first lien against said property.

666.

After the passage of this sub-title, whenever the county or the
property owners or residents of any locality in the area served by a
[d] District shall desire a water or sewerage system or part thereof,
to be constructed in that county or locality, and the [c] 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 sys-
tem at its or their own expense, but it shall be constructed under
plans and specifications approved by the [c] Commission, and its
maintenance and operation shall be under the general control of the
[c] 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 [c] Commission, which shall be empowered at any
time to take over said system or part thereof, or said water main,
sewer, water or sewage 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 [c] Commis-
sion shall be empowered to extend its water or sewerage systems
into any area outside of any sanitary district contiguous thereto and
not included in the territory under the jurisdiction of any other [d]
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 [c] Commission as hereinbefore outlined. [In
Charles County,] [when] When an offer by the [sanitary] [c] Com-
mission to purchase in the manner provided under Section 665 of
this sub-title, a water or sewerage system constructed under the pro-
visions of this section, is rejected or not accepted within ninety (90)
days by the developer or builder, the [sanitary] [c] Commission
shall have the right to proceed in condemnation under the provision
of Article 33A.

666A.

Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the [c] Commission to
take or acquire any land, structures or buildings, or any stream bed,
water way, water rights, or water shed, either in fee or as an ease-
ment, within or without a [d] District, for the construction, exten-
sion or maintenance of any water main, sewer, or appurtenance of
such main or sewer, or for any sewage disposal plant, reservoir,
water purification plant, tank or pumping station, or for the con-
struction, extension or maintenance of any project it may deem
necessary for carrying out the provisions of this sub-title, the [c]
Commission may purchase the same from the owners or failing to
agree with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same by
proceedings in the Circuit Court for the County in which said land,