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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 766

The additional areas shall be subject to all of the
rules and regulations of the commission and all of the
provisions of law relating to the sanitary district,
including taxes, assessments and benefit charges levied in
all other parts of the sanitary district; provided, however,
that the commission shall not levy any ad valorem tax or any
front foot benefit tax, assessment or other charge within
any of the additional areas until such time as the
construction of a water or sewer system within any one of
the additional areas shall be actually commenced or an
existing water or sewer system shall be extended to the
area.

The commission may, whenever it deems it advisable,
construct a water, or sewer system or systems in any of the
additional areas described above, and any such water or
sewer system or any extension thereof shall be taken and
considered as part of the commission's general system and
subject to all of the rules, regulations, assessments and
benefits affecting the same as part of the territory of the
sanitary district for the purpose of direct tax or any or
all of the provisions of chapter 122 of the Acts of 1918 and
any amendments thereof; provided, however, that the
commission may levy such benefit charges and may make such
service rates in relation to any water or sewer system
constructed in any of the additional areas as it shall
determine to be necessary and proper for the construction or
financing of such water or sewer system or for the operation
and maintenance thereof, without regard to the benefit
charges levied or the service rates made in any other area
within the sanitary district, provided, however, that the
commission shall not levy any such benefit charges on any
agricultural property in the area described in this section,
which agricultural property is hereby defined as any tract
of five or more acres upon which produce or other
agricultural products are raised for profit.

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The following area is hereby added to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District: Beginning at a point where the
corporate limits of the Town of Gaithersburg and the
existing boundary of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District intersects the southwest property line of lot 20 of
Observatory Heights Addition to Gaithersburg as recorded
among the land records of Montgomery County in plat book 2,
page 138, and running thence to the west corner of lot 20
being also the end of the first or north 44° east 660 feet
line of the conveyance from John T. Desellum and Sarah Ann
Desellum to Vandelia Owen as recorded among the land records
of Montgomery County in liber E. P. B. 17, folio 122, thence
in a southwesterly direction reversely with the first line
of the conveyance 400 feet, thence in a northwesterly
direction and crossing Water Street (Fitzgerald Road) to the
southwest corner of the lot retained by the grantor in the