HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(b) Within four months subsequent to the date on which
the Montgomery County council or its designated agent
notifies the commission in writing of the actual date of
completion of any incinerator owned by Montgomery County,
and requests its use, and a suitable access road has been
provided, the commission shall to the extent economically
feasible utilize for the disposal of garbage, trash, rubbish
or refuse collected by the commission within the county, any
disposal site, plant and location as may be designated in
writing to the commission by the Montgomery County council,
without charge by the county to the commission.]

[17-3. Private collection and disposal of refuse, etc.;
district incinerators and disposal sites generally.

(a)  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or
corporation not residing or located in the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District or for any person, firm or
corporation located within the boundaries and collecting
such materials for hire, to dump garbage, trash, refuse,
rubbish or junk on any public or private dump within the
boundaries without the consent of the owner of the land and
without a permit from the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission. Nothing in this section 17-3 shall apply in
Montgomery County subsequent to the effective date of any
agreement referred to in section 17-2 of this article.

(b)  No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the
business of collecting garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish or
junk for compensation without first securing a permit from
the commission, and for the protection of the health,
comfort and safety of persons residing within the boundaries
of the sanitary district, the commission may establish
reasonable regulations for the collection and disposal of
such materials. A reasonable fee, to be fixed by the
commission for either maintaining a dump or collecting for
hire, garbage, trash, refuse, rubbish or junk, shall be paid
for each permit and the commission may refuse or revoke a
permit for a public or private dump, after notice and
hearing, if the commission shall find that the location and
use of the proposed dump or the operation of an established
dump would endanger the health, comfort or public welfare of
persons residing within the vicinity thereof, and may revoke
any permit for the business of collecting garbage, trash,
refuse, rubbish or junk for hire, after notice and hearing,
for the violation of its regulations.

(c)  It shall be the duty of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission to construct when needed, on some
convenient site or sites to be selected by it, an
incinerator or incinerators of a modern type for - the
disposal of garbage, trash, rubbish, refuse or junk, and the
commission may acquire such land as it may need for the
disposition of garbage, trash or junk anywhere within or
without the sanitary district. For the purpose of acquiring
a site for an incinerator or incinerators or other refuse
disposal plants, and for the purpose of securing land for
the disposition of garbage, trash, or junk, the commission