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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 805

rules and regulations, to apply to such industrial users.
The terms "industrial use" and "industrial user" are herein
defined as those industries identified in the Standard
Industrial Classification Manual, Executive Office of the
President, Bureau of the Budget, 1967, as amended and
supplemented, under the category "Division D
Manufacturing," and other classes of significant waste
producers as the commission may establish in accordance with
standards adopted pursuant to its rules and regulations.

(c) Before adopting any different rule, regulation,
rate or charge as provided in subsections (a) and (b),
above, the commission shall give notice of the proposed
modification in at least one newspaper printed and published
in Montgomery County and one newspaper printed and published
in Prince George's County and shall thereafter conduct a
public hearing on the necessity or advisability of such
modification of [said] THE rule, regulation, rate or charge.

6-4. Service rates generally.

(a) For the purpose of providing funds for
maintaining, repairing and operating its water supply,
sewers and drainage systems, including the over-head expense
and proper depreciation allowance, together with funds for
making such payments as may be made to the commissioners of
the District of Columbia as hereinafter specified, [said]
THE commission shall be empowered and directed to make such
service rates as it may deem necessary, chargeable against
all properties for a connection with any pipe under its
ownership; [said] THE rates shall be uniform throughout the
sanitary district, but shall be changed from time to time,
as necessary, except (1) that the charge for water service
used in Gaithersburg and Washington Grove until such time as
they are brought within the general system shall be based
upon actual cost of supplying water to [said] THE
communities; and (2) whenever the commission shall furnish
water to federal, state or other agencies which are exempt
from front foot benefit charges and/or ad valorem taxes
imposed under the provisions of chapter 122 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1918, and amendments
thereto, the commission shall make such charge, with full
authority to change the same from time to time, for water
service as it shall deem necessary and reasonable, which
charge shall take into consideration the general tax, and
front foot benefit charge levied within the sanitary
district in addition to the regular rate for service as
provided in subsection (b) hereof; and provided further,
that wherever the commission, because of public necessity,
has extended its water mains beyond the boundaries of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District, it may make such
further extensions out of the general proceeds of its funds
as may in its judgment render a needed service; and as to
all connections to its water mains outside of the [said]
district, it may make such charge as it deems reasonable
which charge is to take into consideration the general tax
and front foot benefit charge laid within the district and