1592                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 602

CHAPTER 601
(House Bill 1232)

AN ACT to add new Section 2(d) to Article 76A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1971 Supple-
ment), title "Public Information," to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 2(c) thereof, to provide that in Harford County all documents
received by the County of an official nature shall be available to the
general public; to specifically direct certain County officials to dis-
close any document that has been presented to them; to reletter as
appropriate; and to generally relate thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Section 2 (d) be and it is hereby added to Article 76A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1969 Replacement Volume and 1971
Supplement), title "Public Information," to follow immediately after
Section 2(c) thereof, and to read as follows:

2.

(d) All written documents concerning the welfare and general
citizenry of the people PRESENTED TO THE COUNTY COM-
MISSIONERS of Harford County shall be open and available
to the press and to the public of Harford County. The Attorney
for the county and the county director of public information shall
disclose the contents of any document publicly presented to either
of them upon the demand of any citizen of Harford County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1972.

Approved May 26, 1972.

CHAPTER 602
(House Bill 1267)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 5-1(1)
of the Washington Suburban Sanitary District Code (1969 Edition,
as amended), being Section 83-71(1) of the Public Local Laws of
Prince George's County (1963 Edition), and Section 71-19(1) of
the Montgomery County Code (1965 Edition), being Articles 17
and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, titled "Prince George's County" and "Montgomery County,"
subtitled SUBTITLED "Washington Suburban Sanitary District,"
as enacted by Chapter 117 of the Acts of 1971, to provide for
merging a new benefit charge eventuating from an enlarged or
augmenting facility abutting a property with any initial benefit
remaining against that property, to become one benefit charge
rather than two separate charges.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 5-1(1) of the Washington Suburban Sanitary District