J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1321

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 83-101A of the Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County (1963 Edition), and new Section 73-120A of the
Montgomery County Code (1960 Edition), being Articles 17 and 16,
respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, titles
Prince George's County" and "Montgomery County," subtitle "Wash-
ington Suburban Sanitary District," be and it is hereby added, to
follow immediately after Sections 83-101 and 73-120 of the respec-
tive Codes, and to read as follows:

83-101A. (73-120A.)

The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to cooperate
with and assist any State, County or municipality within Prince
George's and Montgomery Counties, or any instrumentality of said
authorities, in an Urban Renewal Project undertaken by such au-
thority or agency, by abandoning, relocating, reconstructing, in-
stalling, or constructing water, sanitary sewerage or storm drainage
facilities in the urban renewal area, provided the Commission is
paid or assured of payment by the urban renewal authority for the
Commission's costs and expenditures to the extent herein provided.
Whenever any Urban Renewal Project, as defined in the Federal
Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal Law, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1450 et seq.,
or in any Act of the General Assembly of Maryland providing for
urban renewal programs, requires or results in the abandonment,
relocation, realignment, raising, lowering, rebuilding or removal
of any water, sewer or storm drainage facility of the Commission,
the urban renewal authority shall pay to the Commission the entire
amount properly attributable to the abandonment, relocation, re-
alignment, raising, lowering, rebuilding or removal, after deducting
therefrom any salvage value from the old facility. No urban renewal
authority shall authorize or permit any Commission structure to be
removed, abandoned or damaged for or in connection with an Urban
Renewal Project until the Commission has been paid or payment
to the Commission has been assured to the Commission's satisfaction,
to the extent above specified. Whenever any Urban Renewal Project
requires the installation or construction of a new water, sewer or
storm drainage facility by the Commission, the Commission may
make the installation or perform the construction so long as the costs
thereof are to be repaid it through existing provisions for special
assessments, including front foot benefit charges, or, if existing
provisions do not provide for the payment, then upon being paid or
having the payment assured by the urban renewal authority, and
for such purposes the Commission is authorized to enter into agree-
ments with any urban renewal authority providing for the payment
to the Commission over a period of time, with the terms of the con-
tract and rate of interest to be determined by the Commission. As
used herein, the term "urban renewal authority" shall mean the
State, County, municipality, commission, or district or agency which
is engaged in urban renewal activity.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.