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40D. Eminent Domain—Water, Sewerage and Drainage
Systems of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission in Montgomery County.

The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private
property to be taken for public use without just compensation, to be
agreed upon between the parties or awarded by a jury, being first
paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation, except
that where such property, located in Montgomery County in this
State, is in the judgment of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission needed for water supply, sewerage and drainage sys-
tems to be extended or constructed by the Commission, the General
Assembly may provide that such property, except any building or
buildings, may be taken immediately upon payment therefor by that
condemning authority to the owner or owners thereof, or into the
Court to the use of the person or persons entitled thereto, such
amount as the condemning authority shall estimate to be the fair
value of said property, provided such legislation requires that the
condemning authority's estimate be not less than the appraised
value of the property being taken as evaluated by at least one qualified
appraiser, whose qualifications have been accepted by a Court of
Record of this State, requires the payment of any further sum that
may subsequently be awarded by a jury, and provides that prior to
the implementation of any immediate taking by the Commission
through the filing of a declaration thereof in Court the resolution of
the Commission proposing that taking is transmitted to the County
Government for concurrence by procedures established by the legis-
lation.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of this State
shall be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of this State at
the next general election, but not any special election or referendum,
to be held in this State in 1972, for their adoption or rejection in
pursuance of directions contained in Article 14 of the Constitution
of this State, and at the said general election the vote on the pro-
posed amendment shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot there shall
be printed the words "For the Constitutional Amendment" and
"Against the Constitutional Amendment," as now prescribed by law,
and immediately after the election due returns shall be made to the
Governor of the vote for and against said proposed amendment, as
directed by Article 14 of the Constitution of this State, and further
proceedings had in accordance with said Article 14.

Approved May 6, 1971.

CHAPTER 360
(Senate Bill 23)

AN ACT to add new subsection 53(15) to Article 88B of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume), title "State
Police," subtitle "State Police Retirement System," to follow im-
mediately after subsection 53(14) thereof, to provide for the serv-