WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 685

(a)  (1) If a municipality or the property owners or
residents of any locality in the sanitary district desire a water
supply[,] OR sanitary sewerage[, or drainage] system, or part of
the system to be constructed in that municipality or locality,
and the WSSC decides that it is inexpedient or impracticable at
the time to build the system, owing to remoteness from the WSSC's
general system or for other reasons, the municipality, property
owners, or residents may build and operate the system at their
own expense.

(2)  However, the system shall be constructed under
plans and specifications submitted to and approved by the WSSC,
and its construction, maintenance, and operation shall be under
the supervision and general control of the WSSC.

(3)  A system or part of a system, a water main,
sewer, [stormwater drain,] water purification or sewage disposal
plant, or a connection with these facilities may not be
constructed, or installed, except as provided in this section.

(b)  All construction and operating records, including cost
records, shall be filed with the WSSC, which may take over the
system or a part of the system, the water main, sewer,
[stormwater drain,] water purification or sewerage disposal
plant, or connection with these facilities, in the same manner as
provided in § 3-106 of this subtitle.

(c)  Subject to the provisions of § 3-101 of this subtitle,
the WSSC may extend its water supply[,] OR sewerage[, or
drainage] systems into any area outside of the sanitary district
that is contiguous to or in the vicinity of the sanitary
district, whenever the property owners of the area agree to the
conditions imposed by the WSSC.

(d)   [Except as otherwise provided, this section as it
applies to the power and authority granted to the WSSC over
drainage systems is not applicable in Montgomery County, except
for that portion of the City of Takoma Park in Montgomery County
on June 30, 1968.

(e)] The powers and authority in this section may not be
restricted by any other general, special, or local law, except as
specifically provided in this article.

[3-201.

Except as otherwise provided, §§ 3-201 through 3-207 of this
subtitle apply to:

(1) Prince George's County, except the City of Bowie;
and

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