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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-705" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Regulation by Municipalities and Political Subdivisions">
  <text>A municipal authority may:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Construct a system in a municipality;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Extend or alter an existing system;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Maintain and operate a system constructed, extended, altered, or acquired under this subtitle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Make a contract or an agreement with another municipal authority, or with any sanitary commission, sanitary district, county, State, or federal authority about the construction, alteration, maintenance, or operation of a system;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>In order to exercise any power set out in this subtitle with regard to any part of any system, acquire by purchase, in fee or as an easement, from any owner, or if the owner objects, by condemnation, any property inside or outside the municipality, including:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Land;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Structures;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Buildings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>Watercourses;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="v">
      <text>Water rights; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="vi">
      <text>Any privately owned system;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Do any work necessary to carry out any activity under item (1), (2), or (3) of this section, including:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Preliminary work;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Setting compensation for and appointing a workforce; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Entering a highway to work on a system, water main, sewer, drain, or related equipment, if the municipal authority:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>Has a permit to do the work;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>Leaves the highway in a condition at least as good as that existing before entry; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>Pays all costs for cleanup and repair;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Establish street lines and grades, or grant approval to any person to establish street lines and grades, for the proper construction, establishment, or extension of any water, sewerage, or drainage system under the control of the municipal authority; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Withhold water, sewerage, or drainage service from any property that abuts on any street for which a person establishes lines and grades without the approval of the municipal authority.</text>
  </level>
</section>
