1384 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 493

CHAPTER 493

(House Bill 419)

AN ACT relating to the water supply system, the sanitary
and storm water sewerage systems and the refuse collection
and disposal system of the Mayor and Aldermen of the City
of Annapolis; (1) authorizing and empowering said City, at
one time or from time to time, to borrow on its faith and
credit a sum or sums of money not exceeding Two Million,
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2, 500, 000. 00) and to evi-
dence said borrowing by the issuance of its general obliga-
tion, serial maturity, coupon bonds in like par amount, the
proceeds thereof to be used for the construction, enlarge-
ment, improvement or extension of all or any of the above de-
scribed systems, and said borrowing to be made without neces-
sity of a referendum and notwithstanding any existing statu-
tory debt limitation, the principal and interest of said borrow-
ing to be payable primarily from water rents or sewer service
charges levied and imposed by the City and, to the extent
of the deficiency of any such rents or charges, from ad
valorem taxes which the City is authorized to levy, without
limitation as to rate or amount, upon all assessable prop-
erty within its corporate limits; (2) to construct, enlarge
or improve any of the above described facilities or systems
within or without the corporate limits of the City; (3) to
place any structures forming part of said systems in or under
the public highways of the County or State; (4) to acquire
property within or without the corporate limits of the City
necessary for any such systems by purchase or condemnation;
(5) to make all needful regulations, in the interest of the
public health and safety, governing existing or future private
systems of water supply, sewerage or storm water drainage,
or the pollution of the sources of the City water supply; (6)
to authorize the City to enter into contracts or other appro-
priate arrangements with the Anne Arundel County Sanitary
Commission and the Annapolis Metropolitan Sewerage Com-
mission for connections with, or the taking over of, the water
and sewerage facilities of either of said Commissions within
the corporate limits of the City, including any appurtenant
franchises and easements, and to assume the payment of out-
standing obligations of either or both of said Commissions
incurred with respect to any of such facilities so taken over.

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.