94                                   Laws of Maryland                           [Ch. 76

issuance of such refunding revenue bonds, including their terms and
security, the bond resolution, rates, and other aspects of the bonds.

405L (Joint Action by Municipalities) Any two or more munic-
ipalities through their respective governing bodies are hereby author-
ized and empowered to enter into and perform such contracts and
agreements as they may deem proper for or concerning the plan-
ning, construction, lease or other acquisition and the financing of
sewerage facilities and the maintenance and operation thereof. Any
such municipalities so contracting with each other may also provide
in any contract or agreement for a board, commission or such other
body as their governing bodies may deem proper for the supervision
and general management of the sewerage facilities and for the oper-
ation thereof, and may prescribe its powers and duties and fix the
compensation of the members thereof.

405M (Consent of Another Municipality) No municipality shall
construct sewerage facilities wholly or partly within the corporate
limits of another municipality except with the consent of the gov-
erning body of such other municipality.

405N (Regulation) The Public Service Commission of Mary-
land shall have no jurisdiction over the municipality in the manage-
ment and control of sewerage facilities, including the regulation of
the rates, fees, or charges.

405-O (Construction of Act) The powers conferred by this Act
shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by
any other general, special or local law, and shall in no manner be
restricted by debt or tax rate limitations in any local or general law
or in any municipal charter. Sewerage facilities may be planned,
acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, improved, bettered,
and extended, and bonds may be issued under this Act for said pur-
poses, notwithstanding that any general, special or local laws may
provide for the planning, acquisition, purchase, construction, recon-
struction, improvement, betterment, and extension of like facilities,
or the issuance of bonds for like purposes, and without regard to
the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions con-
tained in any other general, special or local law, including, but not
limited to, any requirement for the approval by the voters of any
municipality. Bonds also may be issued hereunder, notwithstanding
an unfavorable vote by the voters of a municipality, where sanitary
facilities have been ordered by the Department of Health or a Court
of competent jurisdiction. In so far as the provisions of this Act
are inconsistent with the provisions of any general, special, or local
law, the provision of this Act shall be controlling.

405P (Excision of Unconstitutional or Ineffective Parts of Act).
It is hereby declared that the sections, clauses, sentences and parts
of this Act are sever able, are not matters of mutual essential induce-
ment, and any of them may be exscinded by any court of competent
jurisdiction if this Act would otherwise be unconstitutional or in-
effective; it is the intention hereof to confer upon every municipality
the whole or any part of the powers in this Act provided for, and
if any one or more sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this Act
shall for any reason be questioned in any court of competent juris-
diction, and shall be adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judg-