J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1203

drainage systems, and a portion is utilized to obtain funds for the

amortization of the bonds issued for the construction of storm drain-
age systems; and

Whereas, the pre-service costs of planning and design of water

and sewer systems should be shared by the areas ultimately bene-

fited thereby and as the area within the Washington Suburban Sani-
tary District develops the construction of storm and surface water
drainage systems becomes more necessary therein, including those
areas within the heretofore exempted from tax category; and

Whereas, all areas within the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District should be similarly subject to the ad valorem tax, except
that with respect to the ad valorem tax previously authorized for the
amortization of the Anacostia River Flood Control and Navigation
Project, the areas in the Sanitary District not now subject thereto
may appropriately be treated differently.

WHEREAS, IN ORDER TO REMOVE ANY UNCERTAINTIES,
IT IS BELIEVED DESIRABLE TO SPECIFICALLY STATE
THAT THE AREAS ADDED TO THE SANITARY DISTRICT
WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED PROVISO SHALL NOT BE
IN THE DISTRICT AS A TAXING DISTRICT UNTIL THE FUL-
FILLMENT OF THE CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO SERV-
ICE WHICH WILL GIVE RISE TO THE APPLICATION OF THE
AD VALOREM TAX.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 83-89 A of the Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County (1963 Edition), and new Section 73-71A 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 "Washington
Suburban Sanitary District," be and they are hereby added, to follow
immediately after Sections 83-89 and 73-71 of the respective Codes,
and to read as follows:

88-89A. (73-71 A).

The direct ad valorem tax authorized or directed by any other
section of this subtitle to be levied on assessable property in any part
of the Washington Suburban Sanitary District, except the direct ad
valorem tax to be levied upon all assessable property within the
Sanitary District in Prince George's County for the amortization of

bonds issued for the Anacostia River Flood Control and Navigation
Project (Sec. 83 118 (e), (73-98 of this Subtitle), shall apply

to, be levied against and collected from all assessable properties
which were on January 1, 1966, within the Washington Suburban
Sanitary District in each County, notwithstanding any other pro-
vision to the contrary which may have been included at the time any
given area or property was added to the said Sanitary District, and
any laws inconsistent with this provision are repealed to that extent.
This section shall not affect the provisions of existing law which pro-

vide that bonds for storm drainage construction funds may be paid

from ad valorem receipts levied against properties in the County in
which the bond money construction funds were expended.