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The County by resolution may require the delivery of all or any portion of the solid wastes generated or disposed of within Carroll County to facilities designated by the Board and located within Carroll County or to facilities located outside of Carroll County if the County has contracted for capacity at or service from such facilities. However, recyclable material which has been removed or segregated from solid wastes may be disposed of at any facilities which accept and process such recyclable material. The County may provide in the resolution that it is unlawful for any person to dispose of solid wastes in or at any other place. The County may impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for the first violation of the resolution and up to $5,000 for each subsequent violation. The County may provide further in the resolution that a violation of the resolution shall result in revocation of the license of the violator to collect or dispose of solid wastes within the boundaries of Carroll County.
P.L.L., 1930, Art. 7, sec. 402; 1965 Code, sec. 442; 1922, ch. 469, sec. 18; 1976 Code, sec. 17-1; 2000, ch. 601.
The Board of Managers of the Springfield State Hospital are authorized and empowered to allow a connection of the water system of Sykesville with the Hospital’s filtered water system, at such location and under such conditions of payment as may be agreed upon by Board of Managers and the Mayor and Council of Sykesville, or to extend said Hospital’s system to the location of connection at the expense of the town of Sykesville, as may be necessary; and Board of Managers are further authorized and empowered to supply at all times the town of Sykesville with an amount of water as may be required by town, at a reasonable rate or rates per thousand gallons as may be mutually agreed upon by Board of Managers and said Mayor and Council, which rate or rates may be changed by mutual agreement as conditions may require.
1967, ch. 754, sec. 439A; 1971, ch. 608, sec. 439A; 1976 Code, sec. 15-1; 1978, ch. 739; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated:
(b) “Board” means the Board of County Commissioners of Carroll County, the governing body of the County.
(c) “Bonds” means notes, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness or obligations.
(d) “Carroll County” means the geographic area within the corporate limits of Carroll County.
(e) “Commission” means the Carroll County Sanitary Commission created by Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, the powers and functions of which are transferred to the County by this title.
(f) “County” means County Commissioners of Carroll County, a body politic and corporate of the State of Maryland.
(g) “Project” means any water system, sewerage system, drainage system, and any combination or part or parts thereof owned, constructed, or operated by the County under the provisions of this title.
(h) “Service area” means the area within Carroll County in which the Board may exercise power and authority under this title in accordance with the provisions of § 14-106 of this subtitle.
(i) “Sewage” means the water-carried wastes created in and carried, or to be carried, away from residences, hotels, schools, hospitals, industrial establishments, commercial establishments or any other private or public building or location, together with such household and industrial wastes as may be present.
(j) “Sewerage system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the collection, carrying away, treating, neutralizing, stabilizing, or disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, and any integral part thereof, including sewage treatment plants, disposal fields, lagoons, pumping stations, drainage ditches, intercepting ditches, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, lateral sewers, force mains, pipes, pipe lines, conduits, equipment, appurtenances, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the Board for the operation thereof; a sewerage system may include related drainage facilities.
(k) “Drainage system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the Board for the operation thereof, used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with (1) the collection, control, distribution, carrying away, or disposal of surface waters and any integral part thereof, including (without limitation) storm water drainage; (2) the prevention and control of erosion, and any integral part thereof; and (3) the management and control of sedimentation, and any integral part thereof; “drainage system” does not include drainage facilities which are part of a water system or sewerage system and which are not part of a system having the primary purpose of draining surface waters.
(l) “Water system” means all plants, systems, facilities, or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the supply or distribution of water and any integral part thereof, including water supply systems, water distribution systems, reservoirs, dams, wells, intakes, mains, laterals, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, hydrants, meters, valves and equipment, appurtenances, and all properties, rights, easements, and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the Board for the operation thereof; a water system may include related drainage facilities.
1978, ch. 739; 1999 Supp., sec. 15-1A; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) The Carroll County Sanitary Commission was created by Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, effective June 1, 1967, and, at the time of its creation, the Commission replaced and succeeded the District (a body politic and corporate) created in Carroll County pursuant to the provisions of Title 9 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland. Upon the creation of the Commission, such District ceased to exist as a body politic and corporate on June 1, 1967.
(b) Chapter 622 of the Acts of 1976, created § 3-901 of this Article, effective July 1, 1977, and provided, among other matters, that the Board could abolish the Commission by a certain procedure and create a Department of Public Works. The Board determined that, in the interest of the efficiency and economy of County operations, the County should undertake the powers and functions of the Commission on July 1, 1979. Appropriate amendments have been made in this subtitle, effective July 1, 1979, to implement this determination without the necessity of any further action by the Board, whether by ordinance or resolution or otherwise. This subtitle does not impair any power of the Board pursuant to § 3-901 of this Article or other authority to create a Department of Public Works and to assign the department responsibilities to implement the Board’s actions under this subtitle.
1978, ch. 739; 1999 Supp., sec. 15-1B; 2000, ch. 601.
On July 1, 1979, the Commission shall cease to exist as a separate entity. It is the intent and purpose of the General Assembly of Maryland that on and after July 1, 1979, the County shall succeed to and exercise all the powers previously exercised by the Commission, and the County shall undertake and thereafter perform any and all obligations of the Commission, either as successor to any District or incurred on its own behalf.
1978, ch. 739; 1999 Supp., sec. 15-1c; 2000, ch. 601.
(a) This title does not impair or affect in any way the validity or enforceability of any proceeding or action taken, or any obligations or indebtedness incurred:
(1) by such district, by its governing body, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Title 9 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland prior to June 1, 1967; or
(2) by the Commission, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, as amended and supplemented, prior to July 1, 1979.
(b) All proceedings and actions taken by the district, by its governing body, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Title 9 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland prior to June 1, 1967, and all proceedings and actions taken by the Commission, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, as amended and supplemented, prior to July 1, 1979, are ratified, validated and confirmed; the authorization, sale, and issuance of all bonds and other obligations issued pursuant to said Title 9 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland and pursuant to Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, as amended and supplemented, prior to July 1, 1979, are ratified and confirmed, and all of these bonds and other obligations are validated as being validly authorized, sold, and issued. It is the intent and purpose that the County, on and after July 1, 1979, shall undertake and satisfy in all respects any and all obligations evidenced by such bonds and other obligations in accordance with their terms.
(c) In the event that the Board decides that any modification of an existing rate, charge, or assessment previously established by the district, by its governing body, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Title 9 of the Environment Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland prior to June 1, 1967, or by the Commission, by the County, or by the Board on behalf of the County pursuant to Chapter 754 of the Acts of 1967, as amended and supplemented, prior to July 1, 1979, is necessary or desirable, the Board promptly shall give notice of the proposed rates, charges, and assessments in at least one newspaper of general circulation in Carroll County. Thereafter, the Board shall conduct a public hearing on the necessity or advisability of the proposed rates, charges, or assessments.
(d) Without in any way limiting the provisions of this title or of any other provision of law, the County has and may exercise all powers necessary or convenient for carrying out the purposes set forth in this title, including but without limiting for generality of the foregoing, the following:
(1) to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain, and defend in all courts.
(2) to appoint officers, attorneys, accountants, agents, employees, and servants to implement the provisions of this title and to fix their compensation and to supervise their duties.
(3) to borrow money and issue bonds, certificates, or other evidence of indebtedness, the borrowing of all money and the issuance of all bonds being subject to the terms, provisions, and specifications contained in this title.
(4) to establish, extend, and maintain water, sewerage, and drainage systems in Carroll County other than in any municipal corporation which existed on June 1, 1967, and in those areas within 1 mile of the present corporate limits of any existing municipal corporation or the corporate limits as may be established by an existing municipal corporation unless such water, sewerage, and drainage systems are approved in accordance with § 14-106 of this title.
(5) to enter into contracts with any third person to effect the purposes of this title.
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