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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-501" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="County Water and Sewerage Plans">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Community sewerage system” means a publicly or privately owned sewerage system that serves at least 2 lots.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Community water supply system” means a water supply system that serves at least 2 lots.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“County plan” means a comprehensive plan for adequately providing throughout the county, including all towns, municipal corporations, and sanitary districts in the county, the following facilities and services by public or private ownership:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Water supply systems;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Sewerage systems;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Solid waste disposal systems;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Solid waste acceptance facilities; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Systematic collection and disposal of solid waste, including litter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“County plan” includes a revised or amended county plan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Individual sewerage system” means a sewerage system that serves only 1 lot.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Individual water supply system” means a water supply system that supplies water to only 1 lot.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Litter” means any:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Waste material;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Refuse;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Garbage;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Trash;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Debris;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Dead animal; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Other discarded material.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Lot” means a parcel of land, including a part of a subdivision, that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is used or is intended to be used as a building site; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Is not intended to be further subdivided.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Multiuse sewerage system” means a sewerage system that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Serves only 1 lot;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Serves a number of individuals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Has a treatment capacity of more than 5,000 gallons a day; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Is not publicly owned or operated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Multiuse water supply system” means an individual water supply system that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has the capacity to supply more than 5,000 gallons of water a day; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Serves a number of individuals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Proposed county plan” means a county plan that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Has been adopted by the county governing body; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has not been approved by the Department.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Proposed county plan” includes any proposed amendment or revision of the county plan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Sewage” means any human or animal excretion, street wash, domestic waste, or industrial waste.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Sewerage system” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The channels used or intended to be used to collect and dispose of sewage; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any structure and appurtenance used or intended to be used to collect or prepare sewage for discharge into the waters of this State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Sewerage system” includes any sewer of any size.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Sewerage system” does not include the plumbing system inside any building served by the sewerage system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“Solid waste acceptance facility” means any sanitary landfill, incinerator, transfer station, or plant whose primary purpose is to dispose of, treat, or process solid waste.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Solid waste disposal system” means any publicly or privately owned system that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Provides a scheduled or systematic collection of solid waste;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Transports the solid waste to a solid waste acceptance facility; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Treats or otherwise disposes of the solid waste at the solid waste acceptance facility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Solid waste disposal system” includes each solid waste acceptance facility that is used in connection with the solid waste disposal system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Subdivision” means any division of a tract or parcel of land into at least 2 lots, for the purpose of sale or building development.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Subdivision” includes any change in street lines or lot lines.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, “subdivision” does not include any division of land into parcels of more than 3 acres, if the division:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is for agricultural purposes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Does not involve any new street or easement of access.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In Carroll County, “subdivision” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any division of land into parcels of more than 3 acres, if the division:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Is for agricultural purposes; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Does not involve any new street or easement of access; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A remainder parcel of land of 25 acres or more that exists as a result of the division of a large parcel into at least 2 smaller parcels, provided that any occupied dwelling on the remainder parcel is serviced by a properly functioning sewerage disposal system and potable water supply.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Water supply system” means a publicly or privately owned or operated:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Source and the surrounding area from which water is supplied for drinking or domestic purposes; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Structure, channel, or appurtenance used or intended to be used to prepare water for use or to deliver water to a consumer.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Water supply system” does not include the plumbing system inside any building that is served by the water supply system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
