Marvin Mandel, Governor                         599

chase price, or other amounts found to be due by the commission
as aforesaid, the commission shall be authorized to take possession
of, maintain and operate said system or facility, whether private
or municipal, as part of its general system, and from the date of
such payment all properties along the line of any water main or
sewer of the system as acquired shall stand in the same relation,
bear the same benefit assessment (subject to the provisions of Sec-
tion 657 of this subtitle), and be subject to the same regulations
and penalties as though the system so acquired had been constructed
and put into operation by the commission under the provisions of
this subtitle; provided, however, that no building or premises actu-
ally 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 or
sewerage system which in the judgment of the commission is unfit,
as a whole or in part, for incorporation with the district's system,
the commission shall disregard the existence of said system or unfit
part thereof and extend the district's system to serve the area tribu-
tary to the existing system or unfit part thereof, and all the pro-
visions of this subtitle relating to systems constructed by the com-
mission shall apply to said extension. Any municipality whose sys-
tem or facility is acquired by a district is hereby authorized to use
the amount paid to it for said system or facility for the purchase
or redemption of any bonds or debt which may be outstanding
against the same. The district shall not purchase any existing water
mains, sewers [or], systems or facilities 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 law requiring the same.

666.

After the passage of this subtitle, whenever the county or the
property owners or residents of any locality in the area served by
a district shall desire a water [or] , sewerage or solid waste dis-
posal system or part thereof, including a solid waste acceptance
facility, to be constructed or provided 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 or provide such system or facility, such county
or persons may build and operate said system or facility at its or
their own expense, but it shall be constructed under plans and spe-
cifications approved by the commission, and its maintenance and
operation shall be under the general control of the commission; and
no such system or facility 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 sec-
tion provided, and any violation of this provision shall be a mis-
demeanor punishable under Section 669 of this subtitle. 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 facility or part thereof, or said water main,
sewer, water or sewage treatment plant or solid waste acceptance
facility 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 subtitle. The commission shall be empowered to
extend its water [or] , sewerage or solid waste disposal systems into