1272                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 608

Acts of 1967, to increase the amount the Commission may contract
for without the consent of the Board, to replace compensation for
members of the Commission with expenses, to increase the amount
the Commission may expend for construction, supplies and equip-
ment without advertising and bidding, but with the concurrence
of the Board and to increase the penalty for certain unpaid bills.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 439A, 439B, 439M and 439V of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Carroll County (1965 Edition, being Article 7 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "Carroll County,"
subtitle "Carroll County Sanitary Commission," as added by Chapter
754 of the Acts of 1967, be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

439A.

There is hereby created a public body politic and corporate of the
State of Maryland to be known as the Carroll County Sanitary
Commission (referred to hereinafter in this subtitle as "the Commis-
sion"), which shall be organized and shall have and may exercise
the powers and duties conferred by this subtitle. The Commission
shall have and may exercise all powers necessary or convenient for
carrying out the purposes set forth in this subtitle, including but
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following:

(1)    To have perpetual existence as a corporation.

(2)    To sue and be sued, implead and be impleader, complain
and defend in all courts.

(3)    To adopt and use and alter at will a corporate seal.

(4)    Upon the consent of the Board of County Commissioners
of Carroll County (hereinafter referred to in this subtitle as the
"Board"), to appoint officers, attorneys, accountants, agents, employ-
ees and servants, to fix their compensation and to supervise their
duties.

(5)    To make by-laws for the management and regulation of its
affairs.

(6)    Upon the consent of the Board, to borrow money and issue
bonds, certificates or other evidence of indebtedness thereof, the
borrowing of all such money and the issuance of all such bonds being
subject to the terms, provisions and specifications hereinafter con-
tained in this subtitle.

(7)    Upon the consent of the Board, to establish, extend and
maintain water and sewerage systems and drainage facilities in
Carroll County other than in any municipal corporation existing on
the effective date of this subtitle and in those areas within one mile
of the present corporate limits of any existing municipal corporation
or the corporate limits as may hereinafter be established by an
existing municipal corporation unless such water and sewerage sys-
tems and drainage facilities are approved in accordance with Section
439C of this subtitle.

(8)    Upon consent of the Board, to enter into contracts with any
third person to effect the purposes of this subtitle, but such consent