WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 196

(d)     To adopt an official seal and alter it.

(e)     To maintain[, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources,]
one or more offices at a place or places it chooses.

(f)      To appoint[, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Natural Resources,]
agents and employees, to prescribe their duties, and fix their compensation as set forth in
this subtitle.

(g)     To sue and be sued.

(h) To acquire, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, improve, maintain, lease as
lessor or as lessee, repair and operate projects within or without the State. The Service
shall establish reasonable rules and regulations for the use of any project. It may acquire,
purchase, hold, lease as lessee, and use any franchise and any property, real, personal or
mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein necessary to carry out the purposes
of the Service. It may sell, lease as lessor, transfer, and dispose of any property or interest
in it that it has acquired.

(i) To acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right of eminent domain in
the manner prescribed by law lands, structures, real or personal property rights,
rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and other interests in lands, including lands lying
underwater and riparian rights which are located within and without the State as it
considers necessary or convenient for the construction or operation of a project, upon
terms and at prices considered by the Service to be reasonable and can be agreed upon by
the Service and the owner of the interest, and to take title to the interest in the name of
the Service. At any time ten days after the return and recordation of the verdict or award
in any condemnation proceeding, the Service may take possession of the property
condemned, upon paying to the clerk of the court the amount of the award and all costs
taxed to that date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceeding by defendant. At the
time of the payment, the Service shall give its corporate undertaking to abide by any
judgment in any appeal or further proceedings.

(j) To borrow money and issue bonds or notes for the purpose of paying all or any
part of the cost of any one or more projects or for any other purpose of the Service; to
provide funds to be paid into any debt service reserve fund; to secure the payment of the
bonds or notes or any part thereof by pledge or deed of trust of all or any part of its
revenues or other available money or by pledge, mortgage, or deed of trust of any one or
more facilities or properties; to combine projects for financing purposes and to make
agreements with or for the benefit of the purchaser or holder of the bonds or notes, with
the issue of the bonds or notes, whether issued or to be issued, as the Service may deem
advisable; and in general to provide for the security of the bonds or notes and the rights
of their holders.

(k) To combine, after consultation with the municipalities affected, one or more
water supply, wastewater purification, or solid waste disposal project with any other
project as a single system for the purpose of operation or financing.

(1) To fix, alter, charge, and collect rates, fees, and charges for the use of or for
the services furnished by its projects.

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