2352                                  Municipal Charters

SEWERS
516 A.

In addition to the powers conferred upon the town under its charter
or under the provisions of any public general or public local law, the
Commissioners of Sharptown shall have and may exercise the power and
authority: (i) to plan, construct, reconstruct, extend, alter, improve, re-
pair, operate and maintain a system for the collection, treatment and dis-
posal of sanitary sewerage; (ii) to acquire, by gift, purchase or the exer-
cise of the right of eminent domain, any interest in property, real or per-
sonal, necessary or appropriate thereto, and to accept governmental grants
or loans in connection therewith; (iii) to borrow money to finance, in
whole or in part, the cost thereof; and (iv) to do all things and take any
action, by ordinance or otherwise, which may be determined to be neces-
sary or appropriate for the exercise of any of the foregoing powers or for
the regulation or efficient operation and maintenance of such system, or
any part thereof. Violation of any ordinance passed under the authority
of this subtitle shall be deemed a misdemeanor and punishable as the Com-
missioners of Sharptown may, from time to time, by ordinance provide.

516B.

(a)    Any person having any main, pipe, conduit or other structure
in, on or over any public way in the town or in the county which impedes
the establishment, construction or operation of any town sewer main
shall, upon reasonable notice, remove or adjust the same at his or its ex-
pense to the satisfaction of the town. The town may exercise the right of
eminent domain to carry out the provisions of this subsection.

(b)    No person shall construct, place or change the location of any
main, conduit, pipe or other structure in any public way in the town with-
out first having submitted plans to the town and obtained written ap-
proval upon such conditions and subject to such limitations as the Com-
missioners may impose. If any unauthorized main, conduit, pipe or other
structure interferes with the efficient operation of the system, the town
may order it removed.

(c)    The town may enter upon or do construction in, on or over any
county public way for the purpose of installing, repairing or maintaining
any equipment or doing any other thing necessary to establish, operate
and maintain its sewerage collection, treatment and disposal system. Un-
less required by the county, the town need not obtain any permit or pay
any charge for these operations but it must notify the county of its intent
to enter on the public way and must leave the public way in a condition
not inferior to that previously existing.

516C.

(a) The town shall provide a connection with sanitary sewer mains
for all property abutting on any public way in which a collector main is
laid. When any such sanitary sewer is declared ready for operation by the
town, all abutting property owners shall, after reasonable notice, connect
all fixtures with the sewer main. If the town deems existing fixtures un-
satisfactory, it may require that satisfactory ones be installed and it may
require that all septic tanks, cesspools, sink drains, privies and similar
installations be abandoned, filled, removed or left in such a condition as
not adversely to affect public health. All wells found to be polluted or to
constitute a hazard to health may be ordered to be abandoned and closed.