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given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this
end the provisions of this sub-title are declared to be sever able.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1963.

Approved April 17, 1963.

CHAPTER 322
(Senate Bill 418)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1590A(c)
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1953
Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Washington
Suburban Sanitary District", and Section 73-78 (c) of the Mont-
gomery County Code—1960 (being Article 16 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland), title "Montgomery County", sub-title
"Chapter 73. Washington Suburban Sanitary District", AS SAID
SECTION WAS LAST AMENDED BY CHAPTER 779 OF THE
ACTS OF 1959, relating to the submission to and approval by the
County Council of Montgomery County of the major trunk sewer
construction program and extensions thereof by the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission, and relating generally to sewers
in Montgomery County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1590A(c) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County (1953 Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Prince George's County",
sub-title "Washington Suburban Sanitary District", and Section
73-78 (c) of the Montgomery County Code—1960 (being Article 16
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Montgomery
County", sub-title "Chapter 73. Washington Suburban Sanitary Dis-
trict", AS SAID SECTION WAS LAST AMENDED BY CHAPTER
779 OF THE ACTS OF 1959, be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

1590A(c) 73-78(c)

In addition to the above, and not in substitution therefor, the
Sanitary Commission shall submit to the Montgomery County Council
the portion of its initial program under this section proposing con-
struction of major trunk sewers in Montgomery County, and the
annual revisions thereof, and any resolution proposing an amend-
ment with respect to said sewer program in Montgomery County,
all of which submissions shall be made at least [thirty] sixty FOR-
TY-FIVE days before final action is taken by the Commission. If
the County Council shall not respond within [thirty] sixty FORTY-
FIVE days of receipt of such submission, its consent thereto shall be
assumed. If the County Council shall disapprove any sewer project
in Montgomery County contained in any such submission or shall
request deferral of any scheduled priority for any such project, or
shall request that no connection or access be permitted on any sewer
project or portion thereof, the Commission shall amend its pro-