The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1914-08-21
Friday, August Fl, 1914
Local Laws
published by authority
CHAPTER 793


CHAPTER 793
A N ACT to add certain new Sections
to Article II of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Prince Georges
County as codified by Chapter % of
the Acts, of the General Assembly of
1912, to be sub-titled Sewerage and
Drainaae,,' and TO add seventeen new
Sections under said subtitle to said
Article H. to come in after Section
529 of said Article, and to be number.
ed consccutively as 529-A, Sob,
529-C, 529-D, 529-E, 529-F, 529-G,
529-H, 529-I. 529-J, 529-K, 529-L,
529-M, 529-N, 529 Q, 529-P, 529 Q,
providing that the Board of County
Commissioners of Prince Georges
County shall be and become Sewer
age and Drainage Commission, with
power to appoint aSanitary Engineer
and fix his compensation; to estab-
lish and define sewerage and drainage
districts and areas, to construct or
acquire and maintain sewerage and
drainage systems; to issue bonds for
such amounts as may re found necess-
ary 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
tenance of shch systems when con-
structed or acquired; to hold special
elections at which the issuance or
not of such bonds shall be determin-
ed within the sewerage or drainage
districts or 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 e&pedient, to carry
out the purposes of this Act.
SECTION l. 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 a new sub title desig7
mated as Sewerage and Drainage"
numbered 529-A, 529-B, 529-C, 529-D,
5.9-E, 529-F, 529-G, 529-H, 529-I. 629-J,
529-K, 529-L 529-M, 529-N, $3.50, 529-P,
$3.50, and the same are hereby enacted
to read as follows:
SEC. 529-A. Be it enacted, That the
Board of County Commissioners of
Prince Georges County, be and are
hereby authorized to act as a Sewerage
and Drainage Commission for said
county; that for the purpose of consid-
ering and transacting such business as
may arise through the operation of this
Act, they shall convene regularly, once
each month or ofterer, not exceeding
four times a month. however, should
there be business of sufficient impor-
tance or volume to warrant and at such
points as may be best suited to the
business under consideration. The
compensation to be paid the members
of said Commission for the duties p'ac
ed upon them by this Act shall not ex-
ceed the amount of two hundred and
! fifty dollars each in any one wear. 1t
shall be individually a 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.
I The clerk of said Board shall act as
Secretary of the said Commission. He
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. l."
The Commission shall also cause to be
kept by the Treasurer of the County an
accurate itemized account of all moneys
received and expenditures made in full
filling the purpose and intent of this
Act. The title of said volume shall be
t'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 apart 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 a Sanitary Inspector for
said Commission He shall render to
it, 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-
tion allowed the Public Health Officer
for 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,
That the Sewerage and Drainage Com
mission of Prince Georges County shall
be 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 and 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 such rules, orders and regulations
shall be recorded in volume entitled
"Rules and Regulations of the Board Of
County Commissioners of Sewerage and
Drainage" and when signed by the said
Commission aud attested by its Secre-
fary, and sealed with the 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 etfecting 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 a misdemeanor and
shall be subject to a 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 529-C. 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 delegat-
ed to the Sewerage and Drainage Com
mission shall include the power to do
all things which may be necessary or
incident thereto, among which shalf-be
the followin
(a). The power to limit or define the
boundaries or extent of sewerage or
drainage districts or areas;
(b). The power to make ali such pre-
liminary work as should be in the opin-
ion of the Commission, precede the ac-
tual projection, construction or estab-
lishment, by themselves, or any