240 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 73

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
336 of Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland (Bagby's Edition, 1924), title "Health, " sub-
title "Water, Ice and Sewerage, " providing that the
bonds, • stocks or notes therein authorized to be issued
shall be a lien upon all property within the jurisdiction
issuing them, and shall be forever exempt from State,
county or municipal taxation, and to declare this Act an
emergency law and make it effective from the date of its
passage.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 336 of Article 43 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Edition, 1924),
title "Health, " sub-title "Water, Ice and Sewerage, " be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

336. The State, or any County, legally constituted pub-
lic water, sewerage or sanitary district, or any municipal-
ity, upon which an order of the State Board of Health is
served, shall, through its proper official or department,
proceed to raise such funds as may be necessary to comply
with such order within the time specified. When approved
by the Governor and Attorney-General, any County, legally
constituted public water, sewerage or sanitary district, or
municipality may raise such funds, or any part of them,
by issuing bonds, stocks or notes without prior legislative
enactment; and the question of issuance of such bonds,
stocks or notes shall not be required to be submitted to a
vote of the people. The money made available by bonds,
stocks or notes so issued shall constitute a sanitary fund,
and shall be used for no other purpose than for carrying
out the order or orders of the State Board of Health. At
no time shall the total outstanding issue of such bonds,
stocks or notes exceed two per cent, of the total value of
all property within the limits of such County, district or
municipality, as listed and assessed for taxation. The
amount of bond, stock or note issue as allowed by this sec-
tion may be in addition to the total indebtedness other-
wise permitted by law. No public moneys shall be ex-
pended by the State, any County, legally constituted public
water, sewerage or sanitary district for any of the pur-
poses enumerated within this sub-title, unless such ex-
penditure and the amount thereof has been approved by