# Public Utilities (GPU)

## Title 29. Prohibited Acts; Penalties

### Subtitle 1

#### Section 29-106

(a) A person may not leave unburied for a period longer than 24 hours a dead animal or fecal matter in the sanitary district or on a watershed from which the Commission gets its water supply.

(b) The Commission may bury a dead animal or fecal matter left unburied more than 24 hours and charge the cost of the burial to the owner or the person on whose property the dead animal or fecal matter was found.

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