Terms Used In Maryland Code, ENVIRONMENT 9-1108.2

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
(a) In this section, “watershed implementation plan” has the meaning stated in § 8-2A-01 of the Natural Resources Article.

(b) The following may count toward a nitrogen load reduction identified in the State‘s or a local jurisdiction‘s watershed implementation plan:

(1) A reduction in nitrogen from upgrading an on-site sewage disposal system to the best available technology for the removal of nitrogen if the operation and maintenance for the on-site sewage disposal system is current; and

(2) A reduction in nitrogen from pumping out an on-site sewage disposal system that is subject to a local jurisdiction’s septic stewardship plan if the local jurisdiction’s septic stewardship plan meets the requirements under § 9-1605.2(h)(8)(iii)2 of this title.