§ 20-2-102. WHEN CONNECTION TO SEWERAGE SYSTEM NOT COMPELLED.

Except as provided in § 4A03 of the Baltimore County Zoning Regulations, no property owner having a well-maintained and properly functioning soil absorption system shall be required to abandon said system and connect to a public sewer. However, if the Directors of the Departments of Environmental Protection and Resource Management and Public Works determine that it is necessary, for the protection of the public health, for the public sewer system to be extended to serve existing housing units, pursuant to this title, the county shall be able to order the property owners of said housing units to make connection to said public sewer system, pursuant and subject to this title. Failure by a property owner to comply with such order shall be deemed a misdemeanor and subject the property owner to a fine of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each month during which such connection shall not be made.

(1988 Code, § 35-177) (Bill No. 126, § 2, 9-28-1990; Bill No. 64-99, § 1, 8-6-1999; Bill No. 28-01, § 5, 5-25-2001; Bill No. 30-03, § 1, 7-1-2004)

Editor's note:
  Section 26 of Bill 122-10 provides that each reference to the Department or Director of Environmental Protection and Resource Management in Article 20 of the Baltimore County Code, 2003, as amended, shall be deemed to refer to the Department or Director of Environmental Protection and Sustainability.