J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1259

BE OBTAINED FROM THE STATE ROADS COMMISSION, AND
THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF SAID STATE ROADS
COMMISSION SHALL BE COMPLIED WITH IN AND DURING
THE PERFORMANCE OF ANY SUCH WORK; and provided
further, that said highway shall be repaired and left by the Com-
mission in the same condition as, or in a condition not inferior to,
that existing before said highway was torn up, and that all costs
incident thereto shall be borne by the [Commission] District

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That Section 532 (q) and Sec-
tions 533 and 534 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington
County (1957 Edition), being Article 22 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County", subtitle
"Sanitary Districts", as said Sections were enacted by Chapter 694
of the Laws of Maryland of 1957, be and the same are hereby,
repealed.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Sections 535 and 536 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County, (1957 Edi-
tion) being Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Washington County", subtitle "Sanitary Districts", shall
be renumbered respectively as Sections 533 and 534 and, as so re-
numbered, the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

533. Survey of [district] subdistricts: notice, hearing.

The Commission shall cause preliminary surveys, plans, [speci-
fications] and estimates of financial feasibility to be made for water
[supply] systems, sewerage systems and surface water drainage
systems, or for any one or more of such systems, in [those portions
of the county in which the Commission exercises authority, and
shall divide each sanitary district into water, sewerage and drain-
age districts in such way] each subdistrict created pursuant to
Section 530 of this sub-title, each such system to be so planned and
and to be of such extent and capacity as shall, in [its] the judgment
of the Commission, best serve the needs of the various communities
in any such subdistrict, and as shall promote convenience and econ-
omy of installation and operation. Whenever, and as, preliminary
plans for a project or projects are completed, the Commission shall
give notice by publication in at least one newspaper published within
the County, for three weeks, and by handbills posted and circulated
in the [localities] portion or portions of a subdistrict where said
[improvements] project or projects are contemplated, and shall state
in said notice the probable cost of [the contemplated improvements]
each such project, [and shall further state therein], that plans of
[the improvements] each such project may be inspected at the Com-
mission's office during regular business hours and that any person
interested in [said improvements] any such project will be heard
by the Commission at a time to be specified in the notice, [but
not] which shall be not less than ten days after [first] the last
publication thereof. [If twenty-five residents and landowners in
the sanitary district wherein the improvements are contemplated
shall thereupon, and within ten days after the last of said pub-
lications of said notice, file a petition with the Commission pro-
testing against the proposed improvement, the Commission shall
grant them a hearing within ten days after such petition is filed in