976                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 699

title to pay the costs of installing such facilities and establishing a
new sanitary district, or enlarging an existing sanitary district,
together with the unamortized balance of the bonds issued to pay
the cost of all facilities previously installed by the [commission]
Commission in the area involved, will not exceed twenty-five per
centum (25%) of the assessed property value as fixed for county
taxation purposes within said area or locality, and if they find that
the proposed project is feasible from an engineering and financial
standpoint, and if, in addition thereto, they shall find that it is
necessary to the public health, safety and welfare of the residents
therein that said sanitary district be established or enlarged, they
may in their discretion reverse any decision of the [commission]
Commission denying the petition to create or enlarge a sanitary
district. If such governing body or governing bodies do not so find,
they may in their discretion reverse any decision of the [commis-
sion] Commission creating or enlarging a sanitary district. If the
final decision is in favor of establishing or enlarging a sanitary
district or, in the event no appeal is taken from an order of the
[commission] Commission creating or enlarging a sanitary district,
if the governing body of the county in which said locality lies con-
sents thereto, the [commission] Commission shall cause plats of
such locality as finally determined by the [commission] Commission
to be made under the supervision of its engineers, showing the boun-
daries of such locality, one copy of which plat shall be filed in the
office of the [commission] Commission, one in the office of the
governing body of the county or counties in which said locality lies

and one, indexed ".........................................................Sanitary District," shall be

filed in a plat book in the office where the land records of the county
or counties are kept; and upon the filing of said plat and the
approval of said locality by the governing body or governing bodies
and the [commission] Commission, such sanitary district shown on
said plat shall be, and the same is hereby designated and constituted
for the purpose of this sub-title to be a separate sanitary district
or to be a part of a previously created, contiguous sanitary district,
in accordance with the determination of the [commission] Commis-
sion and, if designated a new sanitary district, shall be given by the
[commission] Commission a distinctive name, shall be subject to all
the provisions of this sub-title and shall be a separate taxing district,
and the filing of said plat shall constitute legal notice to the public
of such action of the [commission] Commission.

653.

The [commission] Commission may cause surveys, plans, specifi-
cations and estimates to be made for water and sewerage systems in
those portions of the county or counties in which the [commission]
Commission exercises authority, and may divide each sanitary dis-
trict into water and sewerage districts in such way as shall, in its
judgment, best serve the needs of the various communities, and shall
promote convenience and economy of installation and operation.
Whenever, and as, such plans are completed, the [commission]
Commission shall give notice by publication in one newspaper pub-
lished within such county or counties, for three weeks, [and by hand-
bills posted and circulated in the localities where said improvements
are contemplated,] and shall state in said notice the probable cost
of the contemplated improvements, based on then available engineer-
ing estimates, which cost figure shall not be final for any purpose