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MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-208 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-208 - Secretary to Advise Persons and Businesses

    (a)    On request, the Secretary shall consult with and advise the owner, operator, prospective owner, or prospective operator of an existing or planned water supply system, drainage system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system with respect to the existing and future needs of all persons and communities that may be affected on any of the following aspects of the system:        (1)    The most appropriate source of water;        (2)    The best method of assuring the purity of the water; and        (3)    The best method of disposing of drainage, sewage, or refuse.    (b)    On request, the Secretary shall consult with and advise the owner, operator, prospective owner, or prospective operator of any business that produces sewage that may pollute the waters of this State.    (c)    The Secretary may conduct any experiment relating to the purification of water or the treatment of sewage or refuse.    (d)    A person need not pay for consultation, advice, or experiments that the Secretary provides under this section.    (e)    (1)    Under this section, the Secretary shall give only preliminary information that outlines the best course to pursue.        (2)    Unless the Governor or the General Assembly delegates this authority specifically to the Secretary, and unless adequate special appropriation is provided for this purpose, the Secretary need not prepare plans, specifications, or detailed estimates for any improvement.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-209 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-209 - Landfill Systems -- Hearings

    (a)    The applicant shall give notice of the application, the informational meeting, and hearings:        (1)    To the public in compliance with Title 1, Subtitle 6 of this article;        (2)    By certified mail to the board of county commissioners or the county council of any county and the chief executive of any county or municipal corporation that the Department determines may be affected by the incinerator for public use or landfill system, including any county or municipal corporation within one mile of the property line of the proposed incinerator for public use or landfill system;        (3)    To the Department of Natural Resources, by certified mail;        (4)    By certified mail to each member of the General Assembly representing any part of:            (i)    A county in which the landfill system or incinerator for public use is located; or            (ii)    A county within 1 mile of the property line of the proposed landfill system or incinerator for public use;        (5)    To record owners of real property within 1,000 feet of the property line of the proposed incinerator for public use or landfill system, by certified mail to the addresses of record owners as indicated in the records of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; and        (6)    By posting a notice of the application, the informational meeting, and hearings in a conspicuous space on the site of the proposed incinerator for public use or landfill system.    (b)    The local officials notified under subsection (a)(2) of this section shall give notice of the application, the informational meeting, and hearings to all interested agencies of their respective jurisdictions.    (c)    To the extent practicable, the Department and other units of the State government shall consolidate the informational meeting and hearings concerning permits for the same landfill system or incinerator for public use.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-211.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-211.1 - Regulations Governing Financial Assurance for Sanitary Landfills Accepting Municipal Solid Waste

    (a)    (1)    The Department shall adopt regulations governing financial assurance for sanitary landfills that accept municipal solid waste.        (2)    For municipal solid waste landfills, the regulations shall be consistent with and may not exceed the requirements of federal regulations governing financial assurance (40 C.F.R. § 258.70 through 258.74).        (3)    A regulation adopted under this section which is applicable to municipal solid waste landfills may not take effect until after the effective date of federal regulations governing financial assurance adopted pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 258.70 through 258.74 and shall cease to be effective whenever those federal regulations are suspended or repealed.    (b)    Before the Secretary issues a permit for a sanitary landfill, the applicant for the permit shall provide proof of financial assurance in accordance with the regulations adopted by the Department under this section.    (c)    Until the regulations adopted by the Department under subsection (a) of this section are effective, or if those regulations cease to be effective, sanitary landfills that accept municipal solid waste shall comply with the requirements of § 9-211 of this subtitle.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-212 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-212 - Landfill Systems -- Option to Purchase

    (a)    (1)    As a condition precedent to the issuance by the Secretary of a permit for a landfill under this subtitle, the county or municipal corporation with jurisdiction over the landfill may require the owner of the site where the landfill is to be located to grant an option for the county or municipal corporation to purchase the site for open space or recreational purposes.        (2)    An option required under this subsection expires on the earlier of:            (i)    The date specified in the option; or            (ii)    The date when the landfill ceases to be actively used.    (b)    (1)    If the county or municipal corporation with jurisdiction over the landfill does not require an option under subsection (a) of this section, the State may require an option for the State to purchase the site for open space or recreational purposes.        (2)    If the county or municipal corporation with jurisdiction over the landfill requires but will not exercise an option under subsection (a) of this section, the State may exercise the option.    (c)    Any option granted under this section is binding on any heir, representative, successor, or assign of the grantor.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-212.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-212.1 - Landfill Systems -- Denial of Permit to Nongovernmental Person

    The Department may deny an application for a permit for a sanitary landfill system to any nongovernmental person if:         (1)    The owner of the land, the operator, or the applicant has violated:            (i)    Any law of this State or any other state concerning sanitary landfills; or            (ii)    Any regulation or permit condition of this State or any other state concerning sanitary landfills; or        (2)    The Department finds that operation of the sanitary landfill system would harm public health or the environment.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-213 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-213 - Landfill Systems -- Term of Permit

    (a)    A permit for a landfill system expires on the 5th anniversary of its date of issue, unless the permit is renewed for a 5-year term as provided in this section.    (b)    Before a permit for a landfill system expires, the permit holder may renew it for an additional 5-year term, if the permit holder:        (1)    Submits to the Department a renewal application on the form that the Department requires;        (2)    Gives notice, by certified mail, of the renewal application to each member of the General Assembly in whose district the landfill system is located; and        (3)    Obtains the written approval of the Department.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-214 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-214 - Landfill Systems -- Revoking or Refusing to Renew Permit

    The Department may refuse to renew a permit for a landfill system if:         (1)    The permit holder violates any provision of this subtitle, any regulation adopted under this subtitle, any condition of the permit, or, if operating a landfill in another state, any statute, regulation, or permit of that state concerning landfill systems;        (2)    The Department finds that continued operation of the landfill system would be injurious to public health or the environment; or        (3)    The Department finds that there is any other good cause.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-215 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-215 - Landfill Systems -- Closing and Covering When Operations End

    (a)    When landfill operations end, the holder of a permit issued under this subtitle for a landfill system shall close and cover all of the land for which the permit was issued in a manner that prevents:        (1)    Erosion;        (2)    Health and safety hazards;        (3)    Nuisances; and        (4)    Pollution.    (b)    The Department shall adopt regulations that set standards for the closing and covering of landfill systems.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-216 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-216 - Permitted Use of Certain Sewage Disposal Systems in Coastal Plain Physiographic Province

    (a)    In the coastal plain physiographic province of this State, a person may use any of the conventional, on-site sewage disposal systems identified in subsection (b) of this section if:        (1)    The system is recommended by the Department as being the most appropriate; and        (2)    The Secretary does not determine that the installation of the specific proposed system would be prejudicial to public health, safety, and welfare.    (b)    Systems that may be used under subsection (a) of this section are:        (1)    A septic tank or aerobic treatment system with:            (i)    Standard trench or deep trench subsurface irrigation;            (ii)    A seepage pit; or            (iii)    A sand mound disposal system; and        (2)    Any other on-site sewage disposal system that the Department in its regulations states is conventional.    (c)    The Department may adopt regulations to carry out this section.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-217 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-217 - Testing and Evaluating Lots for On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems

    Notwithstanding any provision of this title or any regulation of the Department that prohibits the installation of a specific on-site sewage disposal system, at the request of a person who owns a lot that was legally established on November 17, 1985, the Department shall test and evaluate the lot for an on-site sewage disposal system as if the person had applied to the Department and the Department had acted on the application on November 17, 1985.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-217.1 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-217.1 - Persons Inspecting Sewage Disposal Systems for Transfer of Property; Proof of Completion of Course of Instruction; Regulations[subject to Repeal Effective January 1, 2022]

    (a)    After July 1, 1999, every person engaged in the business of inspecting an on-site sewage disposal system for a transfer of property must certify to the Department of the Environment that the person has completed a course of instruction, approved by the Department, in the proper inspection of on-site sewage disposal systems.    (b)    Every person engaged in the business of inspecting an on-site sewage disposal system for a transfer of property shall make available to persons contracting for the inspection service evidence of completion of the course of instruction.    (c)    The Department shall adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this section.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-218 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-218 - Sanitary Facilities Fund; Funding of Planning

    (a)    There is a Sanitary Facilities Fund.    (b)    The Department may use the Sanitary Facilities Fund to finance planning for water and sewerage facilities and for solid waste disposal facilities and solid waste acceptance facilities.    (c)    (1)    The Department also may use funds appropriated in the State budget for general local health services to finance planning under this section.        (2)    If the Department uses a general local health services appropriation to finance planning under this section, State, county, and local funds shall be provided in the same proportions as they would be provided to pay for minimum health services.    (d)    The Department and any county, or the Department and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, jointly may finance planning under this section.    (e)    The Department and any local government may make a joint financing agreement to use any available federal grant for the planning under this section.    (f)    Any county or municipal corporation may appropriate its general funds to participate in the planning under this section.    (g)    If a special government agency is charged with providing sanitary facilities in a county or municipal corporation, the Department, the county, or the municipal corporation may make general funds available to that agency for the planning under this section.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-219 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-219 - Appropriation of Federal or Other Funds for Sewerage Systems, Collector Lines, or Facilities in Patuxent River Watershed

    (a)    This section does not apply if the State would lose or be denied any federal assistance or other funds because of its application.    (b)    (1)    If federal grants, loans, or other funds are available for sewerage systems in the Patuxent River Watershed area, the Department shall use them to upgrade and floodproof existing sewerage systems, collector lines, or facilities in the area to meet standards currently in effect under this subtitle.        (2)    If available funds can be used to upgrade and floodproof any existing sewerage systems, collector lines, or facilities in the Patuxent River Watershed area, the Department may not use the funds to construct any new sewerage system, collector line, or facility in the area.    (c)    Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section, the Department may use available funds to construct a new sewerage system, collector line, or facility that does not discharge into a river, including a new sewerage system that incorporates land disposal of treated sewage effluent.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-220 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-220 - Order by Secretary if Water Supply System, Sewerage System, or Refuse Disposal System Is Inefficient; Action by Secretary if Results Are Not Produced

    (a)    The Secretary shall order the owner or person in charge of a water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system to correct the following improper conditions, if, after investigation, the Secretary determines that, because of incompetent supervision or inefficient operation, the water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system:        (1)    Is not producing reasonable results from a sanitary viewpoint;        (2)    Is a menace to health or comfort; or        (3)    Is causing a nuisance.    (b)    The order shall require that the water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system produce specific, reasonable results within a time that the Secretary sets.    (c)    (1)    If the water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system does not produce the required results within the time that the Secretary sets, the Secretary may order the owner or person in charge to appoint, within a time that the Secretary sets, a person approved by the Secretary to take charge of and operate the system in a manner that will secure the results demanded by the Secretary.        (2)    The person who is served with an order under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall pay the salary of the person who is appointed in compliance with the order.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-221 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-221 - Order to Alter, Extend, or Install Water Supply System, Sewerage System, or Refuse Disposal System; Powers of Health Officer

    (a)    If, after investigation, the Department determines that any water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system is a menace to health or comfort or is causing a nuisance, and that conditions cannot be improved sufficiently only by changing the method of operation, the Department may order the owner:        (1)    To alter or extend the water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system; or        (2)    To install a new water supply system, sewerage system, or refuse disposal system.    (b)    An order under subsection (a) of this section shall state a reasonable date for completion of the work.    (c)    The Secretary may authorize a health officer:        (1)    To investigate refuse disposal systems; and        (2)    To enforce any regulation of the Department concerning refuse disposal systems.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-222 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-222 - Secretary May Order Installation of Public Water Supply System, Public Sewerage System, or Refuse Disposal System

    (a)    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)    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.
MD. Environment Code Ann. §  9-223 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Environment|Title 9 - Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities|Subtitle 2 - Regulation by State|Part II - Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Systems, and Refuse Disposal Systems|Section 9-223 - Connecting Property With Water Supply System or Sewerage System; Use of Private Sewage Disposal System; Privies and Shallow Wells for Certain Religious Groups

    (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 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.    (b)    If the Secretary determines that a proposed well, cesspool, privy, sink drain, or private sewage disposal system would be prejudicial to health, the Secretary may prevent construction of the well, cesspool, privy, sink drain, or private sewage disposal system.    (c)    (1)    This subsection does not apply to:            (i)    The construction of a new dwelling; or            (ii)    Any addition to or renovation of an existing dwelling.        (2)    The Secretary shall allow the owner of a dwelling unit to install an on-site sewage disposal system for the dwelling unit if:            (i)    The dwelling unit is owner-occupied;            (ii)    The dwelling unit is legally situated on a property and legally occupied; and            (iii)    The Secretary finds that the on-site sewage disposal system would be a reasonable solution to sewage problems on the property and would not be an undue risk to the environment or to public health, safety, or welfare.    (d)    (1)    A person may not build a privy in this State unless the privy will, in the judgment of the Secretary, prevent:            (i)    The soil from coming in contact with any fecal matter; and            (ii)    Flies from gaining access to any fecal matter.        (2)    If the Secretary finds that a person has built a privy in violation of paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Secretary shall:            (i)    Condemn the privy; and            (ii)    Order any change sufficient to bring about compliance with paragraph (1) of this subsection.        (3)    This section does not authorize the Secretary to prohibit a bona fide religious group from the free exercise of their religious beliefs by constructing a shallow well or a privy, if the well or privy:            (i)    Is built in accordance with specified standards; and            (ii)    Is not prejudicial to health or to the environment.