Section 9-222 - Secretary may order installation of public water supply system, public sewerage system, or refuse disposal system. - Maryland Statutes

§ 9-222. Secretary may order installation of public water supply system, public sewerage system, or refuse disposal system.
 

(a)  Findings by Secretary that justify order.- The Secretary may issue an order under subsection (b) of this section, if, after investigation, the Secretary determines that the absence or incompleteness of a public water supply system, public sewerage system, or refuse disposal system in a county, municipal corporation, sanitary district, subdivision, or locality: 

(1) Is sufficiently prejudicial to the health or comfort of that or any other county, municipal corporation, sanitary district, subdivision, or locality; or 

(2) Causes a condition by which any of the waters of this State are being polluted or could become polluted in a way that is dangerous to health or is a nuisance. 

(b)  Contents of order.- An order under this section may require: 

(1) The installation, alteration, extension, utilization, operation, or the completion of a public water supply system, public sewerage system, or refuse disposal system in a county, municipal corporation, sanitary district, subdivision, or locality within a time that the Secretary sets; or 

(2) The installation of any device, the establishment of any method, or the enforcement of any measure or regulation that the Secretary considers proper under the circumstances. 
 

[HE § 9-209; 1987, ch. 612, § 2; 1988, ch. 412.]