1180                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 549

tion 654 of this subtitle. If the then estimated approximate amount
of bonds to be issued pursuant to Section 654 of this subtitle 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 facili-
ties previously installed by the district in the area involved, is esti-
mated to exceed twenty-five per centum (25%) of the assessed prop-
erty value as fixed for county taxation purposes in said area, or if
the project is not feasible from an engineering or financial stand-
point or, in the judgment of the commission, is not necessary for the
health, safety and welfare of the residents in said area or locality,
then the commission may in its discretion by written order deny
the petition. If the commission in its discretion shall make the find-
ings set forth in Section 652 (a) of this subtitle 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 deny-
ing, modifying or granting the petition shall be published in one or
more newspapers in said county or counties. If ten (10) residents
and landowners in the area involved in any such order are dissatis-
fied with the order of the commission, they shall have the right to
take and enter within ten (10) days after the first publication of
said order, as above provided, an appeal to the governing body or
governing bodies of the county or counties in which lies the pro-
posed sanitary district or enlargement thereof who shall review,
after due notice of hearing, the commission's decision. If the gov-
erning 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 subtitle to pay the costs of installing such facilities and estab-
lishing 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 commis-
sion 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 pro-
posed project is feasible from an engineering and financial stand-
point, 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 denying the peti-
tion 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 commission creating or enlarging a sani-
tary 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 creating or enlarging a sanitary district,
if the governing body of the county in which said locality lies con-
sents thereto, the commission shall cause plats of such locality as
finally determined by the commission to be made under the super-
vision of its engineers, showing the boundaries of such locality, one
copy of which plat shall be filed in the office of the 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