MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                             2505

necessary for the health, safety and welfare of the
residents in said area or locality, then the Commission
may in its discretion by written order deny the petition.
If the Commission in its discretion shall make the
findings set forth in Section 159(a) of this subtitle and
shall deem it desirable to constitute said locality as a
sanitary district, to modify the boundaries of said
locality as presented in said petition or to add such
locality to a contiguous existing sanitary district, it
shall pass a written order setting out its determination.
Such order denying, modifying or granting the petition
shall be published in one or more newspapers in St.
Mary's County. If ten (10) residents and landowners in
the area involved in any such order are dissatisfied with
the order of the Commission, they shall have the right to
take and enter within ten (10) days after the first
publication of said order, as above provided, an appeal
to the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County who
shall review, after due notice of hearing the
Commission's decision. If the County Commissioners of
St. Mary's County shall find that the amount of bonds to
be issued pursuant to Section 161 of this subtitle to pay
the costs of installing such facilities and establishing
a new sanitary district, or enlarging an existing
sanitary district, together with the unamortized balance
of the bonds issued to pay the cost of all facilities
previously installed by the Commission in the area
involved, will not exceed twenty—five per centum (25%) of
the assessed property value as fixed for county taxation
purposes within said area or locality, and if they find
that the proposed project is feasible from an engineering
and financial standpoint, and if, in addition thereto,
they shall find that it is necessary to the public
health, safety and welfare of the residents therein that
said sanitary district be established or enlarged, they
may in their discretion reverse any decision of the
Commission denying the petition to create or enlarge a
sanitary district. If such County Commissioners do not
so find, they may in their discretion reverse any
decision of the Commission creating or enlarging a
sanitary district. If the final decision is in favor of
establishing or enlarging a sanitary district, or, in the
event no appeal is taken from an order of the Commission
creating or enlarging a sanitary district, if said County
Commissioners consent thereto, the Commission shall cause
plats of such locality as finally determined by the
Commission to be made under the supervision of its
engineers, showing the boundaries of such locality, one
copy of which plat shall be filed in the office of the
Commission, one in the office of said County

Commissioners and one, indexed "........Sanitary

District," shall be filed in a plat book in the office
where the land records of St. Mary's County are kept; and
upon the filing of said plat and the approval of said
locality by the said County Commissioners and the
Commission, such sanitary district shown on said plat
shall be, and the same is hereby designated and
constituted for the purpose of this subtitle to be a