WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 504

CHAPTER 504
(House Bill 740)

AN ACT concerning

Prince George's County - Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission - Storm Drainage and Flood Control Facilities -

Financing
MC/PG 7-87

FOR the purpose of authorizing the issuance of bonds of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding $21,000,000, for paying the
cost of stormwater, surface drainage, or flood control
projects or systems or of individual floodproofing
facilities on private property, in the Prince George's
County portion of the Sanitary District, including the
payment of any portion of the costs of sanitary sewer or
water supply facilities resulting from the construction or
planned construction of the stormwater, surface drainage, or
flood control systems; providing an alternate remedy for
flood and stormwater conditions, taking into account public
interest factors of environmental enhancement, engineering
feasibility, and economy of system construction and
operation, to pay the cost of acquiring land, interests in
land, and structures on the land in floodplains, which
property will then be held or transferred to other
governmental agencies for public use, with restrictions and
limitations against use of the property for habitation,
commercial, or industrial activity; authorizing the issuance
of notes in anticipation of the issuance of the bonds; and
providing for the payment of the bonds and notes and the
interest on the bonds and notes.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That:

(a) For the purpose of paying the cost of stormwater,
surface drainage, or flood control projects or systems or of
individual floodproofing facilities on private property as
authorized by Chapter 700 of the Laws of Maryland of 1981, as
amended, and carrying out provisions of Chapter 526 of the Laws
of Maryland of 1943, as amended by Chapter 917 of the Laws of
Maryland of 1945, and Chapter 732 of the Laws of Maryland of
1947, with respect to stormwater and surface drainage systems,
including the cost of any engineering or other surveys of
stormwater, surface drainage, or flood control needs in that
portion of the Washington Suburban Sanitary District situated in
Prince George's County, and for the purpose of paying for or
towards the construction of any stormwater, surface drainage, or
flood control project or system that is in the portion of the

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