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2358 LAWS OF MARYLAND Ch. 509
or condominium units; buildings or premises; commercial
businesses, rentals or leasehold units; industrial
buildings; vessels or pleasure craft, SEWERAGE OR WATER
SYSTEM OR EXTENSION THEREOF SERVING 50 OR MORE PERSONS,
SEWERAGE OR WATER SYSTEM HAVING A CAPACITY IN EXCESS OF
5,000 GALLONS PER DAY, in the sanitary district may be
constructed by any private owner without the prior
approval of the Director of Public Works. If application
for the construction or extension of any water supply,
sewerage, solid waste, or drainage system or part thereof
is made under the provisions of this subtitle, and the
county determines that the construction or extension is
inexpedient or impracticable at that time, owing to the
remoteness from its general system or other
considerations, the applicant may enter into a contract
or agreement with the county to build and operate the
system or extension, but only after the county has
revised or amended the county water and sewerage plan as
authorized under Section 387 of Article 43. It [shall]
MAY be constructed only under [whatever] plans and
specifications [as] WHICH have been submitted to and
approved by the Director of Public Works, and its
maintenance and operation shall be under the general
control of the county. No such system or part thereof
[or] AND 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 IN THIS SECTION, 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] A privately—owned
system shall bear the reasonable costs that the county
may incur for the review and approval of [any such] THE
plans and for the supervision by the county of the
construction, maintenance and operation of [such] THE
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] OF THE SYSTEM 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] OR
eliminate the requirement 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 system 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] OF THIS SECTION
causes [such] pollution, then the county is authorized to
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