The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-08-28
Friday. August Is, 1914
Public Local Laws

Public Local Laws
published by authority
CHAPTER 1893
AN ACT to add certain new Sections
to Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Prince Georges
County as codiied by Chapter % of
the Acts of the General Assembly of
1919, to be sub-titled Sewerage ard
Drainage, and 20 add seventeen new
Sections under SAID subtitle to said
Article II, TO come III after Section
529 of said Article, and to be num- Der
ed consecutiyely as 529A, SOB,
500, 529.D, 52a,E, 529-F, $3.50,
529-H, 1921, 529-J, 529-K, 539-L,
529-M, 529N 500 Q, 529-P, 500 Q,
providing that the Board of County
Commissioners Of Prince Georges
County sha4i be and become Sewer
age and Drainage Commission, with
power TO appoint Sanitary Engineer
and fix his compensation; to estab-
fish and define sewerage and drainage
acquire and maintain sewerage and
drainage systems: to issue bonds for
such amounts as may he found uecess
airy to construct The same, and levy
taxes upon the taxable property with
in such sewerage or drainage districts
or areas, to pay for the construction
or acquisition of sewerage and drain
age systems, to provide for the main
t,G
structed or acquired, TO hold special
elections at which the issuance or
mol Of such bonds shall be determin
ed within the sewerage or drainage
districts OF areas affected; to acquire
private or municipal sewerage or
drainage plants already constructed,
and to contract with the proper au-
thorities of Montgomery County in
this State and of the District of Col
umbia, if found expedient, to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
seventeen new Sections of Article II of
the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, under new subtitle desig-
mated as Sewerage and Drainage"
numbered 529-A, Sob, 529-C, Sgd,
o-S-H, oSo-E SaS-O, o@S-h, oSJ-I, cZ0-J,
529-K, 529-L, 529-M, 529-N, 529-O, 529-P,
$3.50, and the same are hereby enacted
to read as follows:
Sec. 529A. Be it enacted, That the
Board of County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County, be and are
hereby authorized to act as Sewerage
and Drainage Commission for said
county; that for the purpose of consid-
ri Il
may arise through the operation of this
Act, they shall convene regularly, once
each month or CfteGer, not exceeding
four times q mouth. however, should
there be business IF sufficient impor-
lance or volume TO warrant and at such
points as may be best suited to the
compensation 10 be paid the members
OF said Commission for the duties p'ac-
ed upon them by this Act shall not ex-
coed the amount Of two hundred and
fifty dollars each in any one year 1t
shall be individually sum bearing the
same ratio to the above maximum as
the number of meetings attended by
the member bears to the total number
of meetings held within any year.
The clerk of said Board shall act as
shall keep in suitable book "a per-
manent record of the proceedings of
the Commission and the title of said
volume shall be proceedings of the
Board of County Commissioners, with
the subtitle Sewerage and Drainage"
The Commission shall also cause to be
kept by the Treasurer of the, County an
accurate itemized account of all moneys
IL c,,1
fllhg the purpose and intent of this
Act The title of said volume shall be
Fiscal Report of the Board of County
commissioners" with the subtitle
Sewerage and Drainage" The above
volumes and all other records of the
Commission are hereby made a part of
the Official records of Prince Georges
County and are to be accessible to the
taxpayers of the said county on request,
The Public Health Officer Of said coun-
ty shall act as Sanitary Inspector for
said Commission. He shall render to
1t, and to the State Board of Health at
such times, IN such manner, and in such
form as each may prescribe, reports on
the conditions affecting the public
health In said county. The compensa-
ton allowed the Public Health Office.
Tor the performance of such additional
duties as this Act necessitates shall not
exceed the sum of six hundred dollars
per annum
529 B. And be it further enacted,
Ihat.the Sewerage and Drainage Com
mission of Prince Georges County shall
De charged with the duty of projecting,
constructing and establishing or main
tanning, by contract or otherwise, alone |
or IN cooperation with second parties. |
within or without said county, sewer
age and drainage systems, whenever in
their opinion the public health, welfare |
or convenience of said county so re-
quires.
The said Commission shall have full
power and authority aud in The same is
hereby expressly delegated to them, to
provide, pass and adopt reasonable |
rules, orders, regulations for the use,
proper maintenance, preservation, re-
pair, Improvement, protection, exami-
nation and inspection of such systems |
All sucn rules, orders and regulations |
shall be recorded in a volume entitled |
Rules and Regulations of the Board of |
county Commissioners of Sewerage and |
drainage" and when signed by the said |
Commission and attested by its Secre- |
w. ', ouN G> oiNo Win Tue seal OF the |
Board of County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County, shall be law
full, and have the full force and effect
of law, provided, however, that all such
rules and regulations effecting the san
itary efficiency of said systems be ap-
proved by the State Board of Health. |
Any person violating the provisions of |
any such rule, order or regulation shall |
be deemed guilty of misdeneanor and |
shall be subject to fine of not less |
than five nor more than one hundred |
dollars, to be enforced and collected as
other fines are enforced and collected |
under the laws Of the State.
Section $3.50. And be it further en-
acted, That The power to establish sew
erage or drainage systems in and for
said county or parts thereof SO delepat-
ed to the Sewerage and Drainage COM
mission shall include the power To do
all things which may be necessary ar
incident thereto, among which shall he
the fOllowins:
(a). The power to limit or define the
boundaries or extent of sewerage or
drama dist riots