Section 9-1110 - Shared Facility or Community Sewerage Systems

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) 'Community sewerage system' means a publicly or privately owned sewerage system that serves at least two lots. (3) 'Controlling authority' means a unit of government, a body public and corporate, or an intercounty agency authorized by the State, a county, or a municipal corporation to provide for the management, operation, and maintenance of a community sewerage system, shared facility, or multiuse sewerage system. (4) 'Shared facility' means a sewerage system that: (i) Serves more than one: 1. Lot and is owned in common by the users; 2. Condominium unit and is owned in common by the users or by a condominium association; 3. User and is located on individual lots owned by the users; or 4. User on one lot and is owned in common by the users; (ii) Is located wholly or partly on any of the common elements of a condominium; or (iii) Serves a housing cooperative or other multiple ownership cooperative. (b) This section may not be construed as requiring a local jurisdiction to: (1) Be a controlling authority; or (2) Authorize or allow the use of a shared facility or a community sewerage system within the local

ction may not be construed as requiring a local jurisdiction to: (1) Be a controlling authority; or (2) Authorize or allow the use of a shared facility or a community sewerage system within the local jurisdiction. (c) A shared facility or community sewerage system may be approved only if the system: (1) Is managed, operated, and maintained by: (i) A controlling authority; or (ii) A third party under contract with the controlling authority; and (2) Discharges: (i) To the surface waters of the State in accordance with a permit issued under § 9–323 of this title; (ii) By way of land application under a nutrient management plan required under § 8–803.1 of the Agriculture Article that assures 100% of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the applied effluent will be taken up by vegetation; or (iii) By way of an on–site sewerage system.