WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 25

CHAPTER 25

(Senate Bill 135)

AN ACT concerning

Sanitary Facilities - Prohibiting Installation or Operation

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the installation or operation of a
water supply system for a certain use if the operation of
the system would interfere with certain actions of the
Department of the Environment; and authorizing the Secretary
to order a property connected to a sewerage system or water
supply and to order the abandonment of certain facilities if
the facility would interfere with certain actions of the
Department could become prejudicial to the environment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Environment

Section 9-223(a) and 9-502(a)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1987 Replacement Volume and 1988 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Environment

9-223.

(a) If a water supply system that serves the public or a
sewerage system that serves the public is directly available to
service any property on which there is a spring, well, cesspool,
privy, sink drain, or private sewage disposal system that is or
could become prejudicial to health or WOULD INTERFERE WITH A
CLEANUP OR REMEDIATION ACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT THE ENVIRONMENT,
the Secretary may order that:

(1)  The property be connected with the water supply
system or sewage disposal system; and

(2)  The spring, well, cesspool, privy, sink drain, or
private sewage disposal system be abandoned in a condition that
will prevent it from being used or harming health.

9-502.

(a) UNLESS THE OPERATION OF A WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM WOULD
INTERFERE WITH A CLEANUP OR REMEDIATION ACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT,
[This] THIS subtitle does not prohibit the installation or

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