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applicant who is in default under the provisions of this sub-title or
regulations adopted pursuant thereto or unless adequate provision is
made for the disposing [for] of the waste, sewage, and drainage from
such building or structure, and plans thereof presented for the in-
spection of the Buildings Engineer and approved by him.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety, and having passed by a yea
and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 11, 1957.

CHAPTER 178
(House Bill 331)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 14 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Howard County", sub-title "Gar-
bage Disposal", said section to be known as Section 198½ of said
Article 14, authorizing the County Commissioners of Howard
County to establish garbage zones and routes in Howard County,
to set schedules of charges for the removal of garbage and refuse
sufficient to defray the cost of such removal, providing for the
collection of said charges, authorizing the County Commissioners
to employ county employees or independent contractors for such
removals and to provide necessary dumps for the disposal of waste
materials so collected.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new section be added to Article 14 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Howard County", sub-title "Garbage Dis-
posal", to be known as Section 198½, and to read as follows:

198½. The County Commissioners of Howard County are hereby
authorized to establish garbage zones within each of the several Elec-
tion Districts of the County and to fix garbage collection routes in
said zones along State and County streets and roads. The County
Commissioners are further authorized to establish schedules of service
charges to be made to each household habitable unit and to each com-
mercial unit, whether or not such units are actually occupied, for the
removal of garbage, ashes, trash and other waste matter. Such unit
service charges shall be sufficient to defray the cost of the removal
of said garbage, ashes, trash and other waste matter in each estab-
lished garbage zone. Said service charges shall be levied and collected
from the owner of the real estate, as county taxes now are, or may
hereafter be, by law levied and collected, and shall have the same
priority, rights, bear the same interest and penalties and in every

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.