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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-518" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="County Water and Sewerage Plans">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Commission” means the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Health officer” means the health officer for Prince George’s County.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Issuing authority” means any one of the following authorities that is authorized to issue or approve a permit:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Department;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The health officer;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The Montgomery County department designated by the Montgomery County government; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The Prince George’s County Health Department.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Permit” means a permit issued or approved by the issuing authority for Montgomery County or Prince George’s County to install, connect to, or use an individual septic system.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies only in Montgomery County and Prince George’s County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>In each county, a person shall have a permit from an issuing authority before the person may install, connect to, or use an individual septic system.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An applicant for a permit shall submit an application to the issuing authority on the form that the issuing authority requires.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The health officer and the Montgomery County department designated by the Montgomery County government shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Submit each application for a permit to the Commission; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Notify the Commission if there is more than one application for a permit in an area or subdivision of each county when:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>The original permit application is submitted to the Commission; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>This fact reasonably becomes known to the health officer.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to an area of each county in which a community sewerage system is not planned within 10 years under the county’s comprehensive plan for sewerage systems.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 30 days after the Commission receives an application under subsection (e)(1) of this section, the Commission shall review the application and comment to the health officer, in writing, on the application.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If there is more than one application for a permit in an area or subdivision of each county, the Commission may group these applications together for purposes of review and comment.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In its review and comments under this subsection, the Commission shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A determination of the location of the nearest collection line of a community sewerage system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The capacity, feasibility, cost, and engineering conditions or requirements for an extension of this collection line; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If available, an estimate of the time required for this extension.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The issuing authority shall issue a permit to any applicant who meets the requirements of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Commission does not respond as required by subsection (f) of this section, and if the permit otherwise complies with this section, the local health officer may issue the permit.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The issuing authority shall include on each permit that the issuing authority issues a requirement that the holder of a permit shall notify, in writing, any buyer or lessee of the permitted property:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That the permitted property is served by an individual septic system;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Of the conditions, estimate of time, and other factors that concern the subsequent extension of a community sewerage system to the permitted property; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>If applicable, that the Commission did not review and comment on the application for a permit because the permitted property was in an area of the county in which at the time of the application a community sewerage system was not planned within 10 years under the county’s comprehensive plan for sewerage systems.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The health officer and the Montgomery County department designated by the Montgomery County government:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this subsection; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May require the holder of a permit to record the information required by paragraph (1) of this subsection in the land records of the county in which the permitted property is located.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
