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visions and requirements of said Public Law 660 and said Water
Pollution Control Act, as amended from time to time. No other State
agency shall exercise the powers hereby vested in the State Board
of Health.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved February 1, 1957.

CHAPTER 33
(Senate Bill 74)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 373 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
as amended by Chapter 40 of the Acts of the General Assembly
in 1955, OF 1954, title "Health", sub-title "Water, Ice and Sewer-
age", so as to increase the debt limit fixed in said' section from
three percent to five percent of the assessed value of property of
the counties, districts or municipalities thereby authorized to issue
bonds to finance improvements directed to be installed by orders
of the State Board of Health.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 373 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), as amended by Chapter 40 of the Act of the General
Assembly in 1955 OF 1954, title "Health", sub-title "Water, Ice and
Sewerage", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

373. The State, or any County, legally constituted public water,
sewerage, or sanitary district, or any municipality, upon which an
order of the State Board of Health is served, shall through its proper
official or department, proceed to raise such funds as may be neces-
sary to comply with such order within the time specified. When
approved by the Governor and Attorney-General, any County, legally
constituted public water, sewerage or sanitary district, or munici-
pality may raise such funds, or any part of them, by issuing bonds,
stocks or notes without prior legislative enactment; and the question
of issuance of such bonds, stocks or notes shall not be required to
be submitted to a vote of the people. The money made available by
bonds, stocks or notes so issued shall constitute a sanitary fund,
and shall be used for no other purpose than for carrying out the
order or orders of the State Board of Health. At no time shall the
total outstanding issue of such bonds, stocks or notes exceed [three
per cent] five per cent of the total value of all property within the
limits of such County, district or municipality, as listed and assessed
for taxation at the time of such issue. The amount of bond, stock
or note issue as allowed by this section may be in addition to the

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.