# COMAR Title 26 — Department of the Environment

## Subtitle 04 — Regulation of Water Supply, Sewage Disposal, Solid Waste, and Recyclable Materials

### Chapter 05 — Shared Facilities

#### Regulation .01 Definitions.

*COMAR 26.04.05.01*

A. The following terms have the meanings indicated.

B. Terms Defined.

  (1) “Approving authority” means the local, county, or city health department.

  (2) “Controlling authority” means a governmental body empowered by the county or municipality to provide for management, operation, and continuous preventive and corrective maintenance of a shared facility.

  (3) “Shared facility” means a water or sewerage system which serves more than one lot of land or more than one user on a single lot of land with water or sewerage systems located on the individual lots or on parcels owned in common by the users or the controlling authority.

  (4) “Users” means a single family residence, multi-residential unit, commercial unit, or equivalent of them, which is served by the shared facility.