1122                                Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 694

any municipality, private corporation, co-partnership, association or
individual in connection with the services and facilities rendered by
any water system or sewerage system owned or controlled by the
Federal Government or the State of Maryland, any agency or instru-
mentality thereof, and any municipality, private corporation, co-
partnership, association or individual or other District created under
the provisions of this sub-title.

(11)  To contract with any municipality, corporation, individual or
any Public Authority or District of this or any adjoining State, on
such terms as the said Commission shall deem proper, for the con-
struction and operation of any project which is in this State or in
such adjoining State.

(12)  To make and enter into all contracts or agreements, as the
Commission may determine, which are necessary or incidental to the
performance of its duties and to the execution of the powers granted
by this sub-title, including contracts with any Federal agency or
with any county, on such terms and conditions as the Commission
may approve, relating to (i) the use by such agency or by such county
or the inhabitants thereof of any project acquired or constructed by
the Commission under this sub-title or the services therefrom or the
facilities thereof, or (ii) the use by the District of the services or
facilities of any water system, or sewerage system owned or operated
other than by the District. Any such contract shall be subject to
such provisions, limitations or conditions as may be contained in the
resolution of the Commission authorizing bonds of the District. Any
such contract may provide for the collecting of fees, rates or charges
for the services and facilities rendered to a county or to the inhabi-
tants thereof by such county or by its agents or by the agents of the
District, and for the enforcement of delinquent charges for such
services and facilities. The provisions of any such contract and of
any ordinance or resolution of the governing body of a county enacted
pursuant thereto shall be irrepealable so long as any of the bonds
issued under the authority of this sub-title for such District shall be
outstanding and unpaid, and the provisions of any such contract,
and of any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant thereto shall be
and be deemed to be for the benefit of such bondholders. The aggre-
gate of any fees, rates or charges which shall be required to be
collected pursuant to any such contract or any ordinance or resolu-
tion enacted thereunder shall be sufficient to pay all obligations
which may be assumed by the other contracting party.

(13)   The Commission may enter upon and excavate any State,
County or municipal street, road or alley, or any other public high-
way, for the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the
water supply, sewerage systems provided for under this sub-title,
and it may construct in any such street, road, alley or public highway,
a water main, sewer or drain or any appurtenance thereof, without
the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge; provided, that
whenever any State, county or municipal highway is to be disturbed
the public authority having control thereof shall be duly notified;
and provided further, that said highway shall be repaired and left
by the Commission in the same condition as, or in a condition not
inferior to, that existing before said highway was torn up, and that
all costs incident thereto shall be borne by the Commission.

(14) To receive and accept from any Federal agency grants for
or in aid of the construction, acquisition or operation of any project,