1618 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 717

238. (A) The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County are hereby authorized to establish garbage zones
within each of the several election districts of the county
except the Sixth Election District (City of Annapolis). The
County Commissioners are further authorized to establish
schedules of service charges to be made to each household or
commercial unit for the removal of garbage, ashes, trash
and other waste matter. These unit service charges shall be
sufficient to defray the cost of removal of said garbage,
ashes, trash and other waste matter in each established
garbage zone. Said service charges shall be levied and
collected as county taxes now are, or may hereafter be, by
law levied and collected, and shall have the same priority
rights, bear the same interest and penalties and in every
respect be treated the same as county taxes. The County
Commissioners are further authorized to have this removal
made by county employees or to contract for said removal
by an independent contractor or contractors for such
periods and upon such terms as they may establish.

(B) THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARE FUR-
THER AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE AND ESTABLISH
NECESSARY DUMPS TO TAKE CARE OF THE DIS-
POSAL OF THE GARBAGE, ASHES, TRASH AND
OTHER WASTE MATTER COLLECTED, AS THEY
MAY DEEM NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE PRO-
VISIONS OF THIS SECTION.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect January 1, 1954.

Approved April 27, 1953.

CHAPTER 717
(House Bill 661)

AN ACT to add four new sections to the Code of Public
Local Laws of Anne Arundel County (1947 Edition),
being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Anne Arundel County",
said new sections to be known as Sections 437, 437A,

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