88 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 40

Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Health", sub-title "Water,
Ice and Sewerage", be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

373. The State, or any County, legally constituted
public water, sewerage or sanitary district, or any munic-
ipality, 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 com-
ply with such order within the time specified. When
approved by the Governor and Attorney-General, any
County, legally constituted public water, sewerage or sani-
tary 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 avail-
able 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]
three per cent of the total value of all property within
the limits of such County, district or municipality, as
listed and assessed for taxation at the time of such issue.
The amount of bond, stock or note issue as allowed by this
section may be in addition to the total indebtedness other-
wise permitted by law. No public moneys shall be expended
by the State, any County, legally constituted public water,
sewerage or sanitary district for any of the purposes
enumerated within this sub-title, unless such expenditure
and the amount thereof has been approved by the State
Board of Health. Said bonds, stocks or notes shall be
forever exempt from State, County or municipal taxation.
They shall be a lien upon all property within the jurisdic-
tion issuing them. Bonds, stocks or notes issued pursuant
to authority of this section shall be payable in the same
manner as bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of
Sections 387 to 405, inclusive.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety, and being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 12, 1954.