J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1341

registered or certified mail to every owner of any leasehold areas
adjoining the leasehold area to be dredged, under a permit.

(i) Any person who shall dredge oysters in Wicomico County
without a permit as provided for in this Section, upon conviction,
shall be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500). Any captain
of a boat on which any dredge is located and for which no permit has
been obtained, upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed five hun-
dred dollars ($500), and the captain shall not be allowed to dredge
under a permit for at least one year after the date of the violation.

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

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 847
(House Bill 524)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 652 (b)
of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Supple-
ment), title "Health," subtitle "Sanitary Districts," to provide
that in Dorchester County 25% of the owners of a given parcel
of land may petition the governing body of the district on which
the parcel of land is situated to have said parcel considered an
individual sanitary district.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 652 (b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Sanitary Dis-
tricts," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

652.

(b) Whenever twenty-five property owners, and also, in Dor-
chester County 25% of the property owners, residing in any locality
in a county, shall in writing petition the commission to have said
locality (the boundaries whereof shall be definitely stated in said
petition) constituted as a new sanitary district or added to an
existing sanitary district to which such locality is contiguous, the
commission, if it approves, shall cause to be made a preliminary
engineering survey of the project to determine the feasibility and
probable cost of providing such area with utilities, whether water,
sewer or otherwise. If the commission disapproves of the project
or is unable or unwilling to undertake or obtain such preliminary
engineering survey, it shall so inform the petitioners by mail giving
to each of said petitioners an estimate of the cost of making or
obtaining such a preliminary engineering survey, and no further
action shall be taken on said project unless and until the persons
signing the petition therefor cause the estimated cost of such
preliminary engineering survey to be paid to the commission, which
shall then proceed to make or obtain such preliminary engineering
survey. Upon any locality becoming a sanitary district or a part