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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 805

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,

6-7. Same —Areas without tax.

Any area or property which was added to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District including those areas which may
be added by any act of the General Assembly of Maryland in
1966, with the provision that no ad valorem tax shall be
levied therein until the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission commences, extends or acquires a water or
sanitary sewer system therein and makes water or sewer
service available to the properties in that area, is
included in the sanitary district for all purposes except as
a taxing district until the fulfillment of these conditions.
Within the sanitary district in Prince George's County, if
it becomes necessary that the commission plan, design,
develop, construct and maintain storm and surface water
drainage systems for the protection of properties where the
commission's water or sewer systems are not available to
serve them, the direct ad valorem tax shall be levied
against all assessable properties in these areas
irrespective of whether or not they are served by the
commission's water or sewer systems. This section is
intended to be declaratory of the effect of the several acts
which added an area or property to the sanitary district
upon the above-mentioned conditions, and is not intended in
any way to be amendatory of any such act.

6-8. Modification of rates, etc.; notice and hearing.

Whenever the commission shall, in the exercise of its
powers under this [subtitle] ARTICLE to establish rates,
charges, levies or assessments for its services, determine
that any modification of an existing rate, charge, levy or
assessment previously established by the commission shall be
necessary or desirable, the commission shall promptly
thereafter give notice of the proposed modification, such
notice to be given promptly 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 public hearings on the necessity or
advisability of such proposed modification of rates,
charges, levies, or assessments.

6-9. Appeals to public service commission.

The public service commission of Maryland shall
determine, upon appeal, the reasonableness of all
assessments, tax levies or service charges, as in the case
of public service corporations, upon the written complaint
of anyone financially interested therein, or upon the
written complaint of the Montgomery or Prince George's
County Council under such regulations as such public service
commission may from time to time order and provide. All