HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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health officer may proceed to process and issue the permit,
if otherwise appropriate, without further regard to this
subsection (a).

(b) In any permit issued after July 1, 1972, under the
requirements of this section, the [county] health officer or
health department responsible for issuing or approving the
permit shall include therein a requirement that the person,
firm, or corporation to whom or which the permit is issued
must give notice in writing to any purchaser or lessee of
the property for which the permit is issued of the fact that
the property is served by a private septic tank or private
septic system, and of the conditions, estimate of time, and
other factors relative to the question of subsequent
extension of public sanitary sewerage service to the
property. The health officer issuing or approving the permit
shall adopt reasonable procedures to implement this
subsection, and in this connection may require a recordation
of the notice by the permit holder among the land records of
the county in which the property is located. If pursuant to
subsection (a) above, the permit application was not
submitted to the Commission by reason of the fact that the
property for which the application was made is in an area
not contemplated for public sewerage service within 10
years, as depicted in the then extant adopted 10-year
sewerage plan of the pertinent county, that fact shall be
noted on the permit and carried forward in the notice
required by this subsection (b).

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(b) The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene may
authorize a [local] health officer OR THE BALTIMORE CITY
COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH to:

(1)  Conduct investigations of refuse disposal
systems; and

(2)  Enforce State regulations governing such
systems.

615.

(C-l) "HEALTH OFFICER" MEANS THE BALTIMORE CITY
COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OR A HEALTH OFFICER FOR A COUNTY.

615C.

(a) (2) Upon receipt of this report, the police or
sheriff's department personnel shall notify the [local]
health officer or his designee and shall enforce all orders
of the [local] health officer and the public health
veterinarian issued pursuant to this subtitle or any other
applicable rabies control regulations.

(4) In Frederick County, upon receipt of this
report, the animal control center personnel shall notify the