1426                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 782

said new sections to follow immediately after Section 576 thereof,
and to be under the new sub-title "Sanitary Districts"; providing
for the appointment and incorporation in each of the several
counties, or in two or more of the several counties as bodies cor-
porate and politic, of "Sanitary Districts" and for the government
thereof; prescribing the rights, powers and duties of such Dis-
tricts; authorizing such Districts by purchase or gift to acquire,
hold, construct, reconstruct, extend, repair, improve, maintain, own
and lease, either as lessor or lessee, water supply, sewerage and
drainage systems; and authorizing such Districts to purchase, con-
demn or acquire by gift any land, structures or buildings or any
stream bed, water way, water rights, or watershed or any rights
therein required for use in the construction, maintenance or opera-
tion of water supply, sewerage and drainage systems; providing
for the issuance of bonds for the purpose of such construction and
the levy and collection of taxes, assessments and benefits, water
charges and rates for the payment of the debt service of said bonds
in each District and for the cost of operation and maintenance of
such water and sewerage systems; providing for the operation,
maintenance, regulation and control of said systems; exempting
such systems, such bonds and the income therefrom from taxation;
authorizing counties, municipalities, sanitary districts and other
political sub-divisions to contract with and advance money to
Sanitary Districts and to transfer or lease to such Districts exist-
ing facilities; and relating generally to such Sanitary Districts,
their powers, duties and operations AND EXEMPTING CER-
TAIN COUNTIES FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 577 to 604 605, inclusive, be and they are hereby
added to Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edi-
tion) , title "Health", said new sections to be under the new sub-title
"Sanitary Districts", to follow immediately after Section 576, and to
read as follows:

Sanitary Districts

577. The following terms whenever used or referred to in this
sub-title shall have the following meanings, except in those instances
where the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a)  The term "District" shall mean a body politic and corporate
created pursuant to this sub-title, or, if such body politic and cor-
porate shall be abolished, the board, body or commission succeeding
to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers given by
this sub-title to such body politic and corporate shall be given by law.

(b)   The term "Commission" shall mean the governing body of a
District.

(c)  The term "bonds" shall mean and include notes, bonds and
other evidences of indebtedness or obligations which each District is
authorized to issue pursuant to Section 586 of this sub-title.

(d)  The term "governing body" as applied to any county shall
mean the body or board authorized by law to enact ordinances or
adopt resolutions for the particular county.

(e)   The term "water system" shall mean and shall include all
plants, systems, facilities or properties used or useful or having the