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posal system in order to require that the Department of Health
shall not issue such a permit unless it has complied with all county
zoning and land use requirements in the particular county and it
has an affirmative statement that the board of county commis-
sioners or county council does not oppose the issue of the permit.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 394A of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Water, Ice and Sewer-
age," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

394A.

Before issuing a permit for a landfill refuse disposal system under
Section 394, Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the State
Department of Health shall set a day for a public hearing on the
request. The applicant shall give notice to the public of his applica-
tion and of the hearing, by publication once in each week for two
successive weeks prior to the hearing, in a regularly published news-
paper of general circulation in any city or county which the Depart-
ment of Health determines may be directly affected by the request.
The board of county commissioners or the county council of the
county, the mayor or other chief executive official of each such
municipal corporation, the Maryland Geological Survey, and the De-
partment of Water Resources shall be notified by the applicant by
registered or certified mail. The local officials shall notify all inter-
ested agencies of their political subdivisions. In the public notice of
the application, the date, place and time fixed by the Department of
Health for the public hearing on the application shall be stated. At the
public hearing the applicant and any other interested person shall be
given an opportunity to present facts, evidence, and arguments for or
against the granting of the application. The Department of Health
shall not issue a permit for a land fill unless it has complied with all
county zoning and land use requirements of the county in which the
proposed landfill is to be located and has an affirmative statement that
the board of county commissioners or the county council does not
oppose the issue of the permit.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved May 21, 1970.

CHAPTER 662
(Senate Bill 15)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 34 of
Article 1A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Replacement
Volume), title "Aeronautics," subtitle "General Provisions";
to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 3(d) of Article
10 of said Code (1968 Replacement Volume), title "Attorneys at
Law and Attorneys in Fact," subtitle "Admission to the Bar"; to
repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 9 of Article 32 of