# Environment (GEN)

## Title 12. Waterworks and Waste Systems Operators

### Subtitle 2. State Board of Waterworks and Waste Systems Operators

#### Section 12-202

(a)

  (1) The Board consists of 11 members.

  (2) With the advice and consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint 8 members who represent one or more of the following:

    (i) Municipal government;

    (ii) County government;

    (iii) A sanitary or a metropolitan commission;

    (iv) Waterworks supervision;

    (v) Wastewater works or industrial wastewater works supervision;

    (vi) Agriculture;

    (vii) Industrial wastewater works superintendents; and

    (viii) The Maryland Environmental Service.

  (3) The Secretary shall appoint:

    (i) 1 engineer member from the Department; and

    (ii) 2 public members who represent the community at large.

(b) Before taking office, each appointee to the Board shall take the oath required by Article I, Sec. 9 of the Maryland Constitution.

(c)

  (1) The term of a member appointed by the Governor is 4 years.

  (2) The terms of members are staggered as required by the terms provided for members of the Board on July 1, 1981. The terms of those members end as follows:

    (i) Three in 1982;

    (ii) One in 1983;

    (iii) One in 1984; and

    (iv) Two in 1985.

  (3) At the end of a term, a member appointed by the Governor continues to serve until a successor is appointed and qualifies.

  (4) A member who is appointed by the Governor after a term has begun serves only for the rest of the term and until a successor is appointed and qualifies.

(d) The members appointed by the Secretary serve at the pleasure of the Secretary.

(e) The Governor may remove for incompetence or misconduct a member appointed by the Governor.

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Md. Code Ann., Envir. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)