Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    1123

and to receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of
either money, property, labor or other things of value, to be held,
used and applied only for the purposes for which such grants and
contributions may be made.

(15) In the event of any annexation by a county not a member
of the District of lands, areas, or territory served by the District, to
continue to do business, exercise its jurisdiction over its properties
and facilities in and, upon or over such lands, areas or territory as
long as any bonds of indebtedness of such District remain outstand-
ing or unpaid, or any contracts or other obligations remain in force.

879.   None of the powers granted by this sub-title shall be exer-
cised in the construction, improvement, maintenance, extension or
operation of any project or projects which in whole or in part shall
duplicate or compete with existing utilities, public or private, serving
substantially the same purposes. The county organizing such a Dis-
trict may, in the resolution or ordinance signifying their intention so
to do, or from time to time by subsequent resolution or ordinance,
specify the project or projects to be undertaken by the said District.
If the county organizing a District fail to specify the project or
projects to be undertaken, then the District shall be deemed to have
all the powers granted by this sub-title.

No county which shall have created a District under the provisions
of this sub-title shall thereafter create any other District serving the
whole or any part of the same area.

880.    Whenever twenty-five property owners, residing in any
locality in a county, shall in writing petition the Commission to have
said locality (the boundaries whereof shall be definitely stated in
said petition), constituted as a new sanitary district, then if the
Commission in its discretion shall deem it expedient to constitute
said locality as a sanitary district in accordance with the prayer
of said petition, and if the governing body of the county in which said
locality lies consents thereto, the Commission shall cause plats of
such locality to be made under the supervision of its chief engineer,
showing the proposed water, sewerage or drainage systems, one
copy of which plat shall be filed in the office of the Commission, one

in the office of the county and one in a plat book indexed "................

Sanitary Commissions", in the office where the land records of the
county are kept; and upon the filing of said plat and the approval
of said locality by the governing body and the Commission, such
sanitary district shown on said plat shall be, and the same is hereby
designated and constituted for the purpose of this sub-title to be a
separate sanitary district, and shall be given by the Commission
a distinctive name and shall be subject to all the provisions of this
sub-title, and the filing of said plat shall constitute legal notice to
the public of such action of the Commission. That for the purpose
of providing for the organization and preliminary expenses of any
newly constituted sanitary district, the governing body shall furnish
the Commission from time to time such sum, as in its discretion
said governing body may deem proper, all of which shall be repaid
out of the first bond issue of the particular district.

881.   The Commission shall cause surveys, plans, specifications
and estimates to be made for water supply, sewerage and drainage
systems in those portions of the county in which the Commission