90                                   Laws of Maryland                           [Ch. 76

manage such facilities in the most efficient manner consistent with
sound economy and public advantage to the end that such pollution
shall be reduced, prevented or abated and that the services of such
sewerage facilities shall be furnished to consumers at the lowest
possible cost. No municipality shall operate such facilities for gain
or profit or as primarily a source of revenue to the municipality, but
shall operate the same for the use and benefit of the consumers
served thereby and for the promotion of the welfare and for the
improvement of the health and safety of the inhabitants of the
municipality and of the State.

405C (Additional Powers of Municipalities) In addition to the
powers which it may now have, any municipality shall have power
under this Act: (a) to plan, construct, acquire by gift, purchase, or
the exercise of the right of eminent domain, reconstruct, improve,
better or extend any sewerage facilities, within or without the munic-
ipality, or partially within or partially without the municipality, and
to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right of eminent
domain, lands or rights in land or water rights in connection there-
with, (b) to operate and maintain any sewerage facilities for its own
use or for the use and benefit of its inhabitants and also to operates
and maintain such facilities for the use and benefit of persons, firms,
and corporations (including municipal corporations and inhabitants
thereof), whose residences or places of business are located outside
the territorial boundaries of such municipality but within the State
and within a radius of ten miles from the territorial boundaries of
such municipalities, (c) to enter into and perform contracts, whether
long term or short term, with any industrial establishment for the
provision and operation by a municipality of sewerage facilities to
abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of
industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment
periodically by the industrial establishment to the municipality of
amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of the governing
body, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing
(including payment of principal and interest charges, if any), and
of operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities or part thereof
serving such industrial establishment, (d) to issue its bonds to
finance, either in whole or in part, the cost of the planning, acquisi-
tion, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, better-
ment or extension of any sewerage facilities, (e) to prescribe and
collect rates, fees, benefit assessments, charges for the services, facili-
ties and commodities furnished by such sewerage facilities, and to
designate the agency of the municipalities responsible for the fur-
nishing of said services, facilities and commodities, and the collection
of fees and charges, (f) to pledge to the punctual payment of said
bonds and interest thereon an amount of the revenues of such sew-
erage facilities (including the revenues of the existing facilities, if
any, comprising sewerage facilities which are being improved, bet-
tered, or extended, and the revenues to be derived from any improve-
ments, betterments and extensions thereafter constructed or ac-
quired), or of any part of such facilities, sufficient to pay, on either
an equal or priority basis, said bonds and interest as the same shall
become due and to create and maintain reasonable reserves there-
fore. Such amount may consist of all or any part or portion of such
revenue, and (g) to accept from any authorized agency of the Fed-
eral government loans or grants for the planning, construction,
acquisition, lease, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or exten-