HARRY HUGHES, Governor                               3067

commission in the same proportion that the receipts of the
respective functions bear to the total receipts of the
commission.

(h) The General Assembly of Maryland hereby finds,
determines and declares that the term "municipal
corporation" in Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland
does not embrace or include the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District which was incorporated by chapter 122 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1918. The Washington
Suburban Sanitary District cannot be classified in any group
of municipal corporations as required by [said] Article 11E,
and [said] Article 11E therefore has no application to the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District.

1-2. Staff organization and workings generally.

Notwithstanding anything contained in section [83-57]
1-1 to the contrary, the commission shall organize its staff
in such manner as to promote the efficient disposition of
all matters within its jurisdiction. It may organize its
staff into departments or other divisional organizations,
and it may establish the office of and utilize a general
manager, all as the commission may deem necessary for
carrying out the provisions of this [subtitle] ARTICLE. It
shall have authority to appoint and prescribe the functions,
duties and responsibilities of such officers as a secretary,
a treasurer, a chief engineer, and a general counsel, and
engineers, accountants, attorneys, inspectors and such
engineering, legal, clerical and other force and help as,
from time to time, in its judgment may be deemed necessary
to carry out the provisions of this [subtitle] ARTICLE. The
commission may appoint, discharge and fix the compensation
of all its employees, and in so doing shall observe the
requirements of the provisions of this [subtitle] ARTICLE
concerning the merit system or classified service.

1-3. Incorporation; judgments; acquisition of property
generally.

The members of [said] THE commission shall be a body
corporate by the name of the "Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission," with the right to use a common seal, to sue and
be sued, and to do any and all other corporate acts for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this [subtitle]
ARTICLE. In the event of a judgment at law or in equity
being recovered against [said] THE commission or for the
purpose of amicably adjusting threatened or pending
litigation, the commission shall at the annual tax levying
period of the county council of Montgomery County and the
county commissioners of Prince George's County next
succeeding the rendition of [said] THE judgment or
compromise, certify to [said] THE county council of
Montgomery County and county commissioners of Prince
George's County, a tax rate, in addition to that required
for its interest, serial bonds and sinking fund
requirements, that will, when levied and collected under the