1072 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

individual, corporation or municipality contemplating the con-
struction and establishment of a sewerage system in said County,
shall file in duplicate with the Commission a set of plans and
specifications of the same, together with an estimate of the cost
of said system. Said plans and specifications shall be submitted
to the State Board of Health as to character and sanitary effi-
ciency. And if they so approve, they shall endorse thereon their
approval and pass and transmit in duplicate to the said Com-
mission copies thereof, which when signed by the Secretary of
said Commission, shall be the permit under which the work
shall be prosecuted. And if the State Board of Health do
not approve they shall make such recommendation to the Com-
mission as they see fit, and the Commission shall thereupon
order such recommendations adopted before granting permis-
sion for the work to proceed. No change affecting the capacity
or efficiency of the system shall be made after a permit has
been issued, without the approval of the Commission. The
said Commission or its employees and representatives of the
State Board of Health shall have access to such work at all
times.

469. And it is further enacted, That the said Commission
shall have and are hereby authorized to establish and collect
just and equitable annual maintenance charges or rents from
every individual, corporation or municipality entering his or
its sewer into the County system. They shall be known as a
sewerage maintenance tax and as such shall be kept separate
from the tax assessed for bond issued. All revenues derived
from this source shall be deposited in a separate account in
the manner and place as hereinbefore set forth for sewerage
and .drainage tax, and shall be used for the purpose of actually
operating and efficiently maintaining the portion of the County
system used by those paying the tax. The sewerage main-
tenance tax shall be levied and collected annually, and enforced
at the same time and in the same manner as other County
and State taxes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That this Act shall not be construed as affecting
any law pertaining to sewerage or drainage systems in Mont-
gomery County in force at the time of its passage.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1914.