1700                              Joint Resolutions

No. 4
(Senate Joint Resolution 4)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Governor to appoint a Com-
mission to study the feasibility of creating a Metropolitan Sanitary
Authority for the Baltimore Metropolitan Area, to provide potable
water and sanitary sewerage services in the area.

Whereas, the water supply for Baltimore City is physically located
outside its corporate limits; and

Whereas, a substantial part of the sewerage disposal of Baltimore
City is located in Baltimore County; and

Whereas, through various legislative enactments and agreements
between Baltimore City and the surrounding counties, the city has
been supplying, or will supply, water and sanitary sewer services to
all of the surrounding counties; and

Whereas, the systems within the various political subdivisions
receiving such services are financed independently; and

Whereas, through the complexities engendered by the growth in
the area relating to the water supply and the disposal of sewage, a
number of independent financial and engineering studies have not
produced general agreement as to the equitable financial responsi-
bility among the several jurisdictions; and

Whereas, the County Executive and County Council of Baltimore
County, as well as the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City,
support such a study; now, therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor
of Maryland be requested to appoint a Commission to investigate and
report upon the feasibility of the creation of a Metropolitan Sanitary
Authority to provide for the supplying of water and sewage disposal
in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area; and be it further

Resolved, That the Commission when appointed be requested to
meet and organize promptly and to report its findings and recom-
mendations to the Governor and to the General Assembly.

Approved February 27, 1961.

No. 5

(Senate Joint Resolution 5)
Joint Resolution to memorialize the Congress of the United States

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.