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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-668" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>For the construction, maintenance, or operation of any part of a project, the district may acquire any interest in real property by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Purchase; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Exercise of the power of eminent domain as provided in Title 12 of the Real Property Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the district may condemn a property right in a cemetery only to install a sewer line or a water line.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The district may not condemn any property rights in and may not disturb:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any existing grave;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Any grave marker or monument;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Any grave site whose title has been transferred through a sale or exchange made in good faith; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Any grave site as to which burial rights have vested or been transferred through a sale or agreement made in good faith.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Before the district condemns a property right in a cemetery, the sanitary commission shall adopt a resolution that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Is approved by a majority of the sanitary commissioners appointed from the member county in which the cemetery is located;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Includes a declaration that the condemnation is necessary for the public health and safety; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Includes a declaration that immediate acquisition of the property right in the cemetery is necessary.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The sanitary commission shall bury every water line and sewer line that it builds in cemetery land.</text>
  </level>
</section>
