HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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directed to make inspections of the operations of all such
projects and to require the owners or operators thereof to
maintain and operate them in compliance with the
commission's reasonable requirements and with due regard to
public health, safety and comfort. The commission is
authorized to fix and collect from the owners or operators
of such systems a reasonable fee for its supervision and
inspection, whenever an owner or operator of such system
fails or refuses to make any correction or fails or refuses
to maintain and operate the system in compliance with the
commission's reasonable requirements, the commission may
make the correction or, if necessary, take over for so long
a period as may be necessary for the operation of the system
and collect the costs therefor from the owners or operators.
After construction of a water or sewage treatment facility
pursuant to a commission permit, if the operation thereof is
subject to inspection by the state department of health and
mental hygiene, the commission shall not be required to
duplicate those operational inspection functions, and its
operation and inspection fee shall be eliminated or reduced
commensurate with the eliminated inspection activities. All
other aspects of the commission permit for the facility
shall continue.

(d)  The areas described herein shall be exempt from
any taxes and/or assessments by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission until such areas are included within the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District.

(e)  This section shall not apply to any water supply,
sewage collection and disposal system constructed for the
sole purpose of serving any single building, or a group of
buildings serving as a single farm unit or as a single
commercial or industrial establishment, but this section
shall apply to any apartment house with five or more
dwelling units. This section shall not apply to any system
constructed by Montgomery County or by any instrumentality
of the county, nor to the City of Rockville, nor to any
water supply, sewage collection and disposal system
constructed by a municipal corporation which was owned and
operated by the municipality on June 1, 1965.

(f)  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this section are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency, excepting, however, those relating to
the authority of the state board of health and specifically
set forth in Article 43 of the Annotated Code (1951
edition).

(g)  Any individual, firm or private corporation
failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not less [that] THAN $500.00. No conviction
hereunder shall in any manner relieve any person of the
necessity of securing and paying for a permit and complying
with all other applicable provisions of this section.