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with any established insurance company or insurance companies for
a group, annuity, retirement or pension plan, and to contribute so
much thereto as it may deem equitable, or be required to pay under
any contract, and such contribution or payment shall be charged
as expenses of the several departments of the Commission in the
same proportion that the receipts of the respective department bear
to the total receipts of the Commission.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND HEREBY
FINDS, DETERMINES AND DECLARES THAT THE TERM
"MUNICIPAL CORPORATION" IN ARTICLE HE OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND DOES NOT EMBRACE OR
INCLUDE THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY DIS-
TRICT WHICH WAS INCORPORATED BY CHAPTER 122 OF
THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND OF
1918, THAT THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY DIS-
TRICT CANNOT BE CLASSIFIED IN ANY GROUP OF MUNICI-
PAL CORPORATIONS AS REQUIRED BY SAID ARTICLE 11E,
AND THAT SAID ARTICLE HE THEREFORE HAS NO APPLI-
CATION TO THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY DIS-
TRICT.

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SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THE
TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE SEVERAL COMMISSIONERS OF
THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY DISTRICT HOLD-
ING OFFICE UNDER EXISTING APPOINTMENT SHALL EX-
PIRE AS OF MAY 31, 1955, AND THE GOVERNOR SHALL
APPOINT THE SIX MEMBERS OF SUCH COMMISSION TO
SERVE FOR TERMS COMMENCING JUNE 1, 1955, AS PRO-
VIDED IN THIS ACT, PROVIDED THAT NOTHING SHALL BE
CONSTRUED TO PREVENT THE GOVERNOR FROM REAP-
POINTING SOME OF SAID COMMISSIONERS NOW HOLDING
OFFICE TO NEW APPOINTMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

SEC. 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS ACT
SHALL TAKE EFFECT JUNE 1, 1955.

Approved March 10, 1955.

CHAPTER 80
(House Bill 324)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 916
and 917 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's

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