J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      975

so inform the petitioners by mail giving to each of said petitioners
an estimate of the cost of making or obtaining such 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] Commission, which shall then proceed
to make or obtain such preliminary engineering survey. Upon any
locality becoming a sanitary district or a part of an existing sanitary
district pursuant to the provisions of this section, the [commission]
Commission shall repay from the first funds available for such pur-
pose, including the issuance of bonds, any sums furnished by any
of the petitioners to defray the cost of the preliminary engineering
survey. Upon completion of the preliminary engineering survey, the
[commission] Commission shall give notice by publication in one or
more newspapers of general circulation in the county or counties in
which the proposed sanitary district or enlargement thereof lies
once a week for three (3) successive weeks [and by handbills posted
and circulated in the area or locality where said proposed sanitary
district or enlargement of an existing sanitary district is contem-
plated], which notice shall describe the proposed sanitary district
or enlargement, together with the time and place of a hearing to be
held, at which hearing a report shall be made as to the then esti-
mated approximate cost of the facilities contemplated and the estab-
lishment of a sanitary district. Such report shall also include an
estimate of the amount, if any, to be financed by the issuance of
bonds pursuant to the authority of Section 654 of this sub-title. If
the then estimated approximate amount of bonds to be issued pur-
suant to Section 654 of this sub-title to pay the cost of the proposed
facilities in said new sanitary district or enlargement of an existing
sanitary district, together with the unamortized balance of the bonds
issued to pay the cost of all facilities previously installed by the
district in the area involved, is estimated to exceed twenty-five per
centum (25%) of the assessed property value as fixed for county,
taxation purposes in said area, or if the project is not feasible from
an engineering or financial standpoint or, in the judgment of the
[commission] Commission, is not necessary for the health, safety
and welfare of the residents in said area or locality, then the
[commission] Commission may in its discretion by written order
deny the petition. If the [commission] Commission in its discretion
shall make the findings set forth in Section 652 (a) of this sub-title
and shall deem it desirable to constitute said locality as a sanitary
district, to modify the boundaries of said locality as presented in
said petition or to add such locality to a contiguous existing sanitary
district, it shall pass a written order setting out its determination.
Such order denying, modifying or granting the petition shall be
published in one or more newspapers in said county or counties
[and by handbills posted and circulated within the area or locality
involved]. If ten (10) residents and landowners in the area involved
in any such order are dissatisfied with the order of the [commission]
Commission, they shall have the right to take and enter within ten
(10) days after the first publication of said order, as above pro-
vided, an appeal to the governing body or governing bodies of the
county or counties in which lies the proposed sanitary district or
enlargement thereof who shall review, after due notice of hearing,
the [commission's] Commission's decision. If the governing body or
governing bodies of said county or counties shall find that the
amount of bonds to be issued pursuant to Section 654 of this sub-