J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                             351

CHAPTER 282
(Senate Bill 380)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 514 (a),
Section 515 (a) and (b), Section 516 (a) and (b) of Article 23
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico County (1959
Edition, being Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Wicomico County", sub-title "Urban Service Dis-
tricts", relating to the establishment of Urban Service Districts
in Wicomico County, Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 514 (a), Section 515 (a) and (b), Section 516 (a) and
(b) of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico
County (1959 Edition, being Article 23 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Wicomico County", subtitle "Urban Serv-
ice Districts", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

514.

(a) Districts.—The Commission may establish an urban service
district or districts in Wicomico County for the purpose of providing
any one or more of the following services, which are hereby defined
as and sometimes hereinafter referred to as "urban services", to wit:
water supply, sewage disposal, storm drainage and surface water
drainage, curbing and guttering, street lighting, police protection,
fire protection, and garbage and trash collection and disposal in the
areas where said Commission deems it necessary for the health,
safety and welfare of the residents living in such areas by causing
surveys to be made of the proposed district or districts and by pre-
paring a complete engineering and financial report which shall in-
clude the estimated assessed property valuation as fixed for county
taxation within the proposed district, which estimated assessed valu-
ation shall be furnished the Commission by the County Commis-
sioners. When such surveys and estimates are completed the Com-
mission shall give notice by publication in one or more newspapers
published within the County, once a week for three (3) successive
weeks, and by handbills posted and circulated in the proposed dis-
trict or districts, which notice shall specify the proposed area to be
included in said district or districts, together with the time and
place of hearing to be held, at which hearing those present shall be
informed of the contents of the engineer's survey and the probable
cost of establishing said district or districts. The owners (eliminating
mortgagee (s), and considering joint owners or owners in common
as one person) of property lying within said proposed district or dis-
tricts shall have the right to vote for or against the establishment
thereof, and for the purpose of such balloting, each such owner shall
be entitled to cast one vote for each $500.00, or majority fraction
thereof, of assessed valuation of his [property] land, excepting
therefrom the assessed valuation of all improvements thereon lying
within said proposed district or districts, if a majority of the votes

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.