THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 725

CHAPTER 392
(House Bill 748)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 1199 (a) of Flack's 1943 Code of Public Local Laws
of Prince George's County, as added by Chapter 24,
Laws of Maryland, Extraordinary Session of 1947, to
authorize the Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale
to borrow on the faith and credit of the town not to
exceed $50,000 for the payment of the town's share of
the cost of the construction of a storm water or surface
drainage system within the town and to issue therefor
the bonds or promissory notes of the Mayor and Common
Council of Riverdale payable within fifteen years from
the date of issuance; to authorize the Mayor and Common
Council of Riverdale to make such improvements and to
enter into written agreements with the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission or other authorized gov-
ernmental agencies respecting the making of such im-
provements within the town in the development of a
comprehensive system of storm water drainage for the
drainage area; to authorize the Mayor and Common
Council of Riverdale to levy an annual 'Town Drainage
Tax" on the assessable property within the town suffi-
cient to pay the principal and interest on such obligations
as the same shall become due; to declare the "Town
Drainage Tax" a lien upon the property against which
it is assessed; to provide for the collection of such tax
and the method of accounting for and appropriation of
the funds authorized by this Act, and providing for a
referendum thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1199 (a) of Flack's 1943 Code of
Public Local Laws of Prince George's County, as added
by Chapter 24, Laws of Maryland, Extraordinary Session
of 1947, be repealed and re-enacted, with amendments; to
read as follows:

1199(a). The Mayor and Common Council of Riverdale,
for the purpose of meeting the town's share of the cost of
the construction of a storm water or surface drainage
system within the town, are authorized to borrow, in their

——————

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.