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all livestock auction markets, slaughterhouses, abattoirs, packing-
houses, and any and all [person] persons, firms and corporations
engaged in the buying, selling or handling of livestock for slaughter
in this State, and on and after the date specified in the letter the
assessments approved and in force under said referendum shall be
deducted by the purchaser, or his agent or representative, from the
purchase price of any livestock bought, acquired or sold for slaughter.
It shall be unlawful for any livestock auction market, slaughter-
house, abattoir, packinghouse or the administrators or managers
or agents of same or for any person, firm or corporation to acquire,
buy or sell livestock for slaughter without deducting the assess-
ments previously authorized by said referendum. The assessment
or assessments for any month so deducted, shall, on or before the
20th day of the following month, be remitted by such purchaser
as above described, to the State Board of Agriculture, who shall
thereupon pay the amount of the assessments to the duly certified
agency of the producers of such livestock sold for slaughter entitled
thereto. The books and records of all such livestock auction markets,
slaughterhouses, abattoirs, packinghouses, or persons, firms or cor-
porations engaged in buying, acquiring or selling livestock for
slaughter shall at all times during regular business hours be open
for the inspection by the State Board of Agriculture or its duly au-
thorized agents. Provided, however, that if any livestock auction
market, slaughterhouse, abattoir, packinghouse, or any person, firm
or corporation engaged in buying, selling or handling livestock for
slaughter in this State shall fail to collect or pay such assessments
so deducted to the State Board of Agriculture as herein provided,
then and in such event suit may be brought by the duly certified
agency concerned in a court of competent jurisdiction to enforce
the collection of such assessments.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved March 22, 1968.

CHAPTER 38
(House Bill 102)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 53A of
Article 96A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Water Resources," sub-
title "Other Powers and Functions," amending the public water
conservation laws in order to correct erroneous wording therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 53A of Article 96A of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1964 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Water
Resources," subtitle "Other Powers and Functions," be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

53A.

When there arises a need in the State for (1) water-supply stor-
age or (2) storage for streamflow [regulations] regulation for