MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2653

thereof or no water main, sewer, storm drain, water
purification, incinerator, reclamation plant, solid waste
system, or sewage treatment plant or 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 the
provisions of this subtitle. The applicant for the
construction or extension of any such privately—owned
system shall bear the reasonable costs that the county
may incur for the review and approval of any such plans
and for the supervision by the county of the
CONSTRUCTION, maintenance and operation of such system.
All construction and operating records including cost
records shall be filed with the county, which shall be
empowered at any time to take over the system or part
thereof or the water main, sewer, storm water drain,
water or sewage treatment plant, solid waste system or
connection with any of them in the same manner as
provided under this subtitle. Nothing in this section
shall impair the rate making powers of the Public Service
Commission nor eliminate the requirements of the law for
the approval of the Department of Health in the
construction and maintenance of sanitary facilities. No
private water supply, sewerage, solid waste or drainage
systems or extensions thereof authorized by this section
shall be approved if the construction and operation of
this system or systems will cause water pollution which
endangers the WATERS, INCLUDING SHELLFISH BEDS, AS WELL
AS THE water supply of the county, any municipality or
other public agency or private utility corporation
supplying sanitary services in Queen Anne's County. If a
private system approved under the authority hereof causes
such pollution, then the county is authorized to require
whatever modifications as may be necessary to eliminate
such pollution and to take such other legal steps as may
be necessary to enforce its orders eliminating the
nuisance of water pollution.

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(b) The county, for the purpose of assessing
benefits, shall divide all properties in the sanitary
district abutting upon a street, road, land, alley or
right—of—way, in which a water pipe or sanitary sewer is
to be laid into four classes, namely: agricultural, small
acreage, industrial or business, and subdivision
property, and the county may subdivide each of the
classes in whatever manner as it may deem to be in the
public interest. Whenever any water supply or sewerage
project, or part thereof, in the sanitary district shall
have been completed, the county shall fix and levy
benefit assessments upon all properties in the sanitary
district abutting upon the water main or sewer, in
accordance with the classification or subdivision