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the maintenance of storm drainage systems within that portion of the Sanitary
District lying within Montgomery County, and heretofore maintained by the
Commission; and on or after July 30,1972, upon the application of a municipality,
those storm drainage systems heretofore maintained by the municipality. On and
after June 30, 1968, except as otherwise provided herein, but in any event prior to
the date upon which the County Council adopts its annual budget and
appropriations resolution, should any municipality, in Montgomery County, desire
to maintain all then existing storm drainage systems located within its boundaries,
it may so notify the Council, and in such event, assessable properties located
within its boundaries shall become exempt from the levy made by the Council for
the future maintenance of its storm drainage. On or before June 30, 1968, the
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, and on or before June 30, 1972, any
municipality making application as herein before provided, shall by deed, transfer
to Montgomery County any and all interests it may have in surface drainage
easements, structures and other properties, established by plat or otherwise for
storm drainage use and purposes, located so as to provide for the control and
disposition of storm and surface waters in Montgomery County, except for the
aforesaid portion of the City of Takoma Park; and provided further, that said
Commission and any municipality applying as herein before provided will permit
the necessary ingress and egress over any of its fees, leaseholds, easements, or
rights-of-way which may be required in order that the County Council of
Montgomery County can perform such maintenance.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 195
(Senate Bill 333)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggregate amount of
I [Ninety-Five Million Seven Hundred Three Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars
($95,703,700)]] [[Ninety Million Seven Hundred Fifty Five Thousand Three
Hundred Dollars ($90,755,300)]] One Hundred Eight Million Five Hundred
Sixty Four Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars ($108,564,900). the proceeds
thereof to be used for certain necessary building, construction, demolition,
planning, deferred maintenance and equipment purposes of this State, for
acquiring certain real estate and options in connection therewith, and providing
generally for the issue and sale of bonds evidencing [[such]] said loan and to
provide, under certain circumstances, that general funds be used to pay the
principal and interest of said bonds, and for the purposes of this Act, modifying
the provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 425 of the Acts of 1971, modifying the
provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 101 of the Acts of 1970, modifying the
provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 759 of the Acts of 1967, modifying the
provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 179 of the Acts of 1972, and modifying the
provisions of Section 8 of Chapter 409 of the Acts of 1969.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and
empowered to issue a State loan to be known as the "General Construction Loan
of 1973," in the aggregate amount of [[[Ninety-Five Million Seven Hundred Three