MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        157

CHAPTER 17
(House Bill 276)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 413 (c)
of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County (1961 Edition,
being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Cecil County," subtitle "Sanitary Districts," last amended
by Chapter 523 of the Acts of 1963; enabling the County Commis-
sioners to make certain loans and grants to the Cecil County
Metropolitan Commission so that it can provide needed sanitary
facilities presently not economically possible.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 413 (c) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil
County (1961 Edition, being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil County," subtitle "Sanitary Dis-
tricts," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

413.

(c) If fifty (50) property owners residing in said area are dis-
satisfied with the establishment of the district by the Commission
after said hearing, they shall have the right to take and enter within
ten (10) days after said Commission's decision is filed with the
Clerk of the County Commissioners an appeal to the County Com-
missioners of Cecil County. The County Commissioners of Cecil
County shall review the decision of the Commission after having
given notice by publication in one or more newspapers published
within the county once a week for three (3) successive weeks and by
written notice to the protestants, which notice shall specify the time
and place at which the hearing will be held. The County Commis-
sioners after reviewing the facts at said hearing may, in their dis-
cretion, reverse the decision of the Commission or may sustain the
decision of the Commission and they shall have authority to arbitrate
the limits of the Sanitary District, subject to recommendations of
the Metropolitan Commission and the State and County Health
Departments, by including or deleting those areas not to be served.
If the said property owners are dissatisfied with the order of said
County Commissioners, they shall have the right to take and enter
within thirty (30) days after the decision of said County Commis-
sioners an appeal to the Circuit Court for Cecil County. In the event
no appeal is taken from the decision of the Commission approving
said district or in the event the County Commissioners and the
Court, if such an appeal is taken thereto, rule that said sanitary
district is necessary for the health, welfare and safety of the resi-
dents residing therein, then said Commission shall cause plats of
such area to be made under the supervision of its chief engineer
showing the proposed water and/or sewerage system, one copy of
which plat shall be filed in the office of the Commission, one in the
office of the County Commissioners and one in a plat book indexed
"Cecil County Metropolitan Commission" in the office where the
Land Records of Cecil County are kept, and upo