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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-804" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Sewerage Facilities Bond Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to the powers granted to the municipality by any general, special, or local law, and independent of any control by the Public Service Commission of Maryland, a municipality may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to subsection (c)(1) of this section, engage in the development of a sewerage facility:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Wholly inside the corporate boundary line;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Wholly outside the corporate boundary line; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Partly inside and partly outside the corporate boundary line;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or eminent domain, in connection with the development of a sewerage facility:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Land;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Land rights; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Water rights;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Accept from any federal agency loans or grants for the development of sewerage facilities and make agreements with that agency about the loans or grants;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Operate and maintain any sewerage facility for the use and benefit of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The municipality;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The residents of the municipality; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Residences or places of business that are outside the corporate boundary line of the municipality, but are:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Inside this State; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Inside a radius of 10 miles from the corporate boundary line of the municipality;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Set rates and collect fees, benefit assessments, and other charges for the services, facilities, and commodities provided by each sewerage facility;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Designate an agency of the municipality:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To provide the sewerage facility services, facilities, and commodities; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To collect the fees, benefit assessments, and other charges; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Make and perform any contract with any industrial establishment:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>For the municipality to provide, operate, and maintain sewerage facilities to reduce or eliminate water pollution caused by any discharge of industrial waste by the industrial establishment; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For the industrial establishment periodically to pay to the municipality amounts determined by the governing body of the municipality to be at least sufficient to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing, operating, and maintaining the sewerage facility or the part of the sewerage facility that serves the industrial establishment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Through their governing bodies, any 2 or more municipalities may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Make and perform contracts and agreements with each other about sewerage facility:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Development;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Financing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Operation; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Agree or contract with each other:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To provide for a board, commission, or other body to supervise, operate, and generally manage the sewerage facility;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To specify the powers and duties of the board, commission, or body; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>To set the compensation of the members of the board, commission, or body.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A municipality may not construct a sewerage facility wholly or partly inside the corporate boundary line of another municipality except with the consent of the governing body of the other municipality.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A municipality may not operate a sewerage facility:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>For gain or profit; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Primarily as a source of revenue to the municipality.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
