384                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 175

159.

Whenever twenty-five property owners, residing in any locality
in St. Mary's 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, then if the
Commission in its discretion shall deem it expedient to constitute
said locality as a sanitary district in accordance with the prayer of
said petition, and if the County Commissioners consent thereto, the
Commission shall cause plats of such locality to be made under the
supervision of its chief engineer, showing the proposed water, sew-
erage or drainage systems, one copy of which plat shall be filed in
the office of the Commission, one in the office of the County Com-
missioners and one in a plat book indexed "St. Mary's County Metro-
politan Commission", in the office where the land records of St.
Mary's County are kept; and upon the filing of said plat and the
approval of said locality by the County Commissioners of said
County and the Commission, such sanitary district shown on said
plat shall be, and the same is hereby designated and constituted for
the purpose of this subtitle to be a separate sanitary district, and
shall be given by the Commission a distinctive name and shall be
subject to all the provisions of this subtitle, and the filing of said
plat shall constitute legal notice to the public of such action of the
Commission. That for the purpose of providing for the organiza-
tion and preliminary expenses of any newly constituted sanitary dis-
trict, the County Commissioners shall furnish the Commission with
a sum not exceeding [five] ten thousand dollars [($5,000.00)]
($10,000.00), which shall be repaid out of the first bond issue of the
particular district.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1966.

Approved April 14, 1966.

CHAPTER 175
(Senate Bill 577)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 161 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County (1965 Edi-
tion, being Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land), title "St. Mary's County", subtitle "Sanitary Districts", as
added, last amended by Chapter 816 of the Acts of 1957; to pro-
vide increases in the per centum of total issue of bonds to be issued
for the use of the Sanitary Commission to the total value of prop-
erty assessed for county taxation purposes within a sanitary
district and to increase the sum to be allotted to the Sanitary
Commission, prior to the issuance of any bonds, by the County
Commissioners of St. Mary's County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 161 of the Code of Public Local Laws of St. Mary's
County (1965 Edition, being Article 19 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "St. Mary's County", subtitle "Sanitary
Districts", as added, last amended by Chapter 816 of the Acts of