1074                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 644

office of the Commission, one in the office of the governing body of
the county or counties in which said locality lies and one, indexed
". ..... Sanitary District," shall be filed in a plat book [indexed ".....
Sanitary Commissions,"] in the office where the land records of the
county or counties are kept; and upon the filing of said plat and the
approval of said locality by the governing body or governing bodies
and the Commission, such sanitary district shown on said plat shall
be, and the same is hereby designated and constituted for the pur-
pose of this sub-title to be a separate sanitary district [,] or to be a
part of a previously created, contiguous sanitary district, in accord-
ance with the determination of the Commission and, if designated a
new sanitary district, shall be given by the Commission a distinctive
name, [and] shall be subject to all the provisions of this sub-title
[,] and shall be a separate taxing district, and the filing of said plat
shall constitute legal notice to the public of such action of the Com-
mission.

(c)  That for the purpose of providing for the organization and
preliminary expenses of any newly constituted or proposed sanitary
district, the governing body or governing bodies of the county or
counties in which such sanitary district lies [shall] may furnish the
[Commission] District from time to time such sum, as in its dis-
cretion said governing body or governing bodies may deem proper,
but not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for any one sani-
tary district, all of which shall be repaid out of the first bond issue,
if any, [of] for the particular sanitary district. The authority for
advances granted by this sub-section shall be in addition to other ad-
vances authorized by this sub-title.

(d)   The Commission is authorized to adopt a resolution dividing
the territory, or part of the territory, within which it is authorized
to exercise its powers into sanitary districts. In order to develop an
appropriate plan for the creation of sanitary districts, the Commis-
sion may be empowered by the governing body or governing bodies
of the county or counties in which such District exercises its powers
to retain, on behalf of the District, such requisite expert engineering
services as may be necessary, the cost of such services to be paid
from the general funds of the county or counties for which such plan
is made. The resolution adopted by the Commission shall refer to a
plat of such county or counties upon which the proposed sanitary
district lines shall be clearly shown. Such resolution shall not be
legally effective until it is approved by the governing body or govern-
ing bodies of such county or counties after public hearing held follow-
ing not less than 10 days notice in one or more newspapers having a
general circulation in such county or counties and until copy of the
resolution and plat shall be recorded among the land records of such
county or counties. The sanitary district lines of any sanitary dis-
trict, including those in existence at the time of the official adoption
of such resolution, may be changed by appropriate resolution refer-
ring to a requisite plat, with approval by the governing body or gov-
erning bodies of such county or counties after a public hearing as
hereinabove described, and recordation among the land records of
such county or counties; providing that no outstanding bonds shall
in any manner be affected by such amendments. Upon approval by
the governing body or governing bodies and filing of said plat and
resolution as provided in this sub-section (d), new sanitary districts
created pursuant to this sub-section (d) shall be, and the same are
hereby designated and constituted for the purpose of this sub-title