Ch. 215

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 215

(House Bill 382)

AN ACT concerning

Sanitary Commmissions Worcester County - Sanitary Commission
- Service Area Standards

FOR the purpose of altering providing, in Worcester County, a
certain exception to a provision prohibiting the sanitary
commission and the governing bodies of the member counties,
in considering a proposed service area, from creating or
changing a service area unless the sanitary commission finds
that the creation or change is necessary for the existing
and future public health, safety, and welfare; and generally
relating to the consideration of a proposed service area by
the sanitary commission in Worcester County and the
governing bodies of the member counties body of Worcester
County for creation or change of a service area; and making
this Act an emergency measure.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - Environmental
Section 9-647(b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - Environmental
Section 9-647(e)             

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - Environmental

9-647.

(b) In EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (E) OF THIS
SECTION, IN considering a proposed service area, the sanitary
commission and the governing bodies of the member counties may
not create or change a service area unless they find that the
creation or change:

(1) Is necessary for the existing [and] OR future
health, safety, and welfare of the public in general; and

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