Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1861

19-6. Acquisition of property—generally; condemnation.

(A) The county is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to
establish, construct, locate, maintain, operate, protect, preserve, re-
pair, replace, extend or enlarge any water supply, water supply
system, water main, sewer, sewer system, sewage disposal plant or
field, reservoir, dam, waiter purification or filtration plant, tank or
pumping station and drains of any and every kind, nature and descrip-
tion, and all other facilities, appurtenances and adjuncts that may be
required for any of the purposes in this article SUBTITLE. When-
ever deemed necessary by the county in the exercise of any of the
aforegoing power and authority, the county is authorized to ac-
quire by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, exchange or condemnation
from any tenant, lessee, owner, occupier or holder of any interest
and IN land, structures or buildings, source of water supply, stream
bed, waterway, water rights, watershed, franchise, water, sewerage
or drainage systems, or parts thereof, or other property, either in
fee or as an easement, within or without the sanitary district SANI-
TARY DISTRICT. Proceedings for condemnation under this section
shall be instituted in the circuit court for the county in which such
land, structures or buildings, source of water supply, stream bed,
waterway, water rights, watersheds, franchises, water, sewerage or
drainage systems or other property is situated, as now provided for
condemnation of land by municipal corporations, Art. 33A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, 1971 Replacement Volume PRIVATE
PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE IN THE PUBLIC GENERAL
LAWS OF MARYLAND, NOW OR HEREAFTER IN EFFECT.

19-7. Same—arbitration with municipalities

If, in the future, the county should desire to acquire water dis-

tribution mains and their appurtenances owned by any municipality

and serving consumers in the sanitary district exclusively, or if any
municipality should seek to acquire additional rights for the con-

struction of water facilities in any manner affecting the county, the

county and the Mayor and Town Council of said municipality, in

either event, shall negotiate, and if unable to agree shall submit the

matter to arbitration in the following manner:

If any arbitration proceeding provided for in the preceding para-

graph, the county shall appoint one arbitrator and the Mayor and

Town Council of the municipality shall appoint one arbitrator. The

two arbitrators so appointed shall select a third, who shall be chair-

man of the board of arbitration. If the two arbitrators are unable

to agree upon the third arbitrator, the chief judge of the Second

Judicial Circuit of Maryland shall be requested to designate such

third arbitrator, and the written decision of the majority of the

board of arbitration shall be final and binding upon both parties.

19-7. (RESERVED)

19-8. Obstructions impeding facilities to be removed; exceptions

All individuals, firms, or corporations having buildings, conduits,
pipes, tracks, poles, or other structures or obstructions in, on, over,
under, or through any public road, street, or way, which blocks or
impedes the construction and establishment of the County's water
supply, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other works, upon reason-
able notice from the County, shall promptly so shift, adjust, accom-