# Environment (GEN)

## Title 9. Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities

### Subtitle 11. Miscellaneous Sanitary Provisions

#### Section 9-1110

(a)

  (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

  (2) "Community sewerage system" means a publicly or privately owned sewerage system that serves at least two lots.

  (3) "Controlling authority" means a unit of government, a body public and corporate, or an intercounty agency authorized by the State, a county, or a municipal corporation to provide for the management, operation, and maintenance of a community sewerage system, shared facility, or multiuse sewerage system.

  (4) "Shared facility" means a sewerage system that:

    (i) Serves more than one:

      (1) Lot and is owned in common by the users;

      (2) Condominium unit and is owned in common by the users or by a condominium association;

      (3) User and is located on individual lots owned by the users; or

      (4) User on one lot and is owned in common by the users;

    (ii) Is located wholly or partly on any of the common elements of a condominium; or

    (iii) Serves a housing cooperative or other multiple ownership cooperative.

(b) This section may not be construed as requiring a local jurisdiction to:

  (1) Be a controlling authority; or

  (2) Authorize or allow the use of a shared facility or a community sewerage system within the local jurisdiction.

(c) A shared facility or community sewerage system may be approved only if the system:

  (1) Is managed, operated, and maintained by:

    (i) A controlling authority; or

    (ii) A third party under contract with the controlling authority; and

  (2) Discharges:

    (i) To the surface waters of the State in accordance with a permit issued under Sec. 9-323 of this title;

    (ii) By way of land application under a nutrient management plan required under Sec. 8-803.1 of the Agriculture Article that assures 100% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the applied effluent will be taken up by vegetation; or

    (iii) By way of an on-site sewerage system.

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