MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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expenses of the Service FROM CURRENT OPERATING REVENUES
[from general funds].

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.

Approved April 13, 1976.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 185
(House Bill 708)

Floodplains

FOR the purpose of including within the definition of the
waters of the State the flood plain based upon the
100 year flood frequency.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Natural Resources
Section 8-101(k)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1974 Volume and 1975 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 8-101(k) of Article - Natural
Resources, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1974 Volume
and 1975 Supplement) be and it is hereby repealed and
reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

Article — Natural Resources

8-101.

(k) "Waters of the state" includes both surface
and underground waters within the boundaries of the state
subject to its jurisdiction, including that portion of
the Atlantic Ocean within the boundaries of the state,
the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and all ponds,
lakes, rivers, streams, public ditches, tax ditches, and
public drainage systems within the state, other than
those designed and used to collect, convey, or dispose of
sanitary sewage. The flood plain of free-flowing waters
determined by the department on the basis of the [50]
100—year flood frequency is included as waters of the
state.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1976.