HARRY HUGHES, Governor                             2461

the county or persons may build and operate the system or
facility at its or their own expense, but it shall be
constructed under plans and specifications approved by the
commission, and its maintenance and operation shall be under
the general control of the commission; and no 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 section provided, and any violation of this
provision is a misdemeanor punishable under § 669 of this
subtitle. All construction and operating records, including
cost records, shall be filed with the commission, which may
at any time take over the system or facility or part
thereof, or the water mam, 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 § 665 for
systems existing at the time of the passage of this
subtitle. The commission may extend its water, sewerage or
solid waste disposal systems into any area outside of any
sanitary district contiguous thereto and not included in the
territory under the jurisdiction of any other district or in
the vicinity thereof, when the property owners of the area
agree to the charges, assessments and conditions that may be
imposed by the commission as hereinbefore outlined. When an
offer by the commission to purchase in the manner provided
under § 665 of this subtitle, a water or sewerage system
constructed under the provisions of this section, is
rejected or not accepted within ninety (90) days by the
developer or builder, the commission shall have the right to
proceed in condemnation under the provision of Title 12 of
[Article 21] THE REAL PROPERTY ARTICLE of this Code.

914.

(d) Before taking office, each appointee to the Board
shall take the oath required by Article I § [61 9 of the
State Constitution.

Article 43B - Comprehensive Drug Abuse Control and
Rehabilitation Act

3A.

(c) The provisions of this [subsection] SECTION do not
apply in any county which, as of July 1, 1979, has an
existing council, advisory board, or other body established
by law or ordinance, which as its sole responsibility,
reviews policies and programs for the treatment of drug
abuse and alcoholism and which makes recommendations to the
appropriate health officials concerning those policies and
programs.

Article 44A - Housing Authorities

15.