J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                              1363

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961.

CHAPTER 771
(House Bill 681)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 22-44 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel County (1957
Edition, being Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title "General Local
Laws", sub-heading "Waters and Sewers", relating to the adoption
by the Anne Arundel County Sanitary Commission of five year
programs for extension of water and sewer facilities in the Anne
Arundel County Sanitary District, providing for the cooperation
with and suggestions of the Board of County Commissioners in
Anne Arundel County in connection with said programs, and re-
lating generally to the financing and adoption of such long-range
planning programs and procedures for implementation thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 22-44 of the Code of Public Locals Laws of Anne
Arundel County (1957 Edition, being Article 2 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Anne Arundel County", sub-title
"General Local Laws", sub-heading "Waters and Sewers", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

22-44.

(a) The county sanitary commission is authorized to initiate and
conduct investigations, studies, surveys and engineering reports of
long-range planning in all or any part of the county as, in its dis-
cretion, may be necessary for the future installation of water and
sewerage utilities needed for future development, and for the health,
welfare and benefit of the residents of the county.

The commission is hereby empowered to employ such technical,
legal, clerical and other help as may be necessary to carry out such
planning, and is further authorized to employ such outside engineer-
ing assistance as it may select, other than its own engineering
forces, as it may deem necessary.

The cost of the long-range planning herein provided shall be paid
by the commission from any funds available to it or funds provided
to it from private developers, federal, state, metropolitan and county
agencies and from such other sources as funds may be contributed
to the commission for the purpose of such planning, subject to
the approval of the county commissioners, and the county com-
missioners are authorized to appropriate such sums of money as
they may deem necessary and reasonable to carry out such plan-
ning, and the sanitary commission is hereby authorized to enter
into contracts and agreements with the persons, firms or agencies
providing such funds.