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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 estab-
lishment 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 in-
terest charges, if any), and of operating and maintaining the sewer-
age 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, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction,
improvement, betterment or extension of any sewerage facilities, (e)
to prescribe and collect rates, fees, benefit assessments, charges for
the services, facilities and commodities furnished by such sewerage
facilities, and to designate the agency of the municipalities respon-
sible for the furnishing 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 sewerage facilities (including the revenues of the
existing facilities, if any, comprising sewerage facilities which are
being improved, bettered, or extended, and the revenues to be de-
rived from any improvements, betterments and extensions thereafter
constructed or acquired), 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 [therefore. Such] therefor (such amount may consist of
all or any part or portion of such revenue,), and (g) to accept from
any authorized agency of the federal government loans or grants
for the planning, construction, acquisition, lease, reconstruction, im-
provement, betterment or extension of sewerage facilities and to
enter into agreements with such agency respecting such loans and
grants. The governing body of the municipality in determining such
cost may include all costs and estimated costs of the issuance of
said bonds, all planning, engineering, inspection, fiscal and legal
expenses, and interest which it is estimated will accrue during the
construction period and for six months thereafter on money borrowed
or which it is estimated will be borrowed pursuant to this; sub-title.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.
Approved April 3, 1959.
CHAPTER 277
(Senate Bill 214)
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 118 (f)
of Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
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.
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