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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-222" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Regulation by State">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is sufficiently prejudicial to the health or comfort of that or any other county, municipal corporation, sanitary district, subdivision, or locality; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An order under this section may require:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
