# Environment (GEN)

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

### Subtitle 6. Sanitary Commissions

#### Section 9-643

A district may not construct, improve, operate, or extend any project that would duplicate or compete with any utility that is similar to a project and serves substantially the same purposes, unless:

(1) The utility is a privately owned water system or sewerage system; and

(2) The sanitary commission finds that the utility is unfit for incorporation into the district's system.

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