Ch. 120

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(a) (1) In accordance with this section, a district may buy
an existing municipal system or independent system.

(2)  The purchase may be on any terms that are:

(i) In accordance with this subtitle; and

(ii) Agreed on by the sanitary commission and
the owner of the municipal system or independent system.

(3)  (I) IN WORCESTER COUNTY, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE OR ANY REGULATION ADOPTED UNDER
THIS ARTICLE, AN AGREEMENT TO PURCHASE AN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM MAY
INCLUDE LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS BY THE SANITARY COMMISSION OF
WORCESTER COUNTY OR THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY
TO PROVIDE WATER AND SEWER SERVICE TO, AND MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE
ZONING, DEVELOPMENT, PERMITS, AND OTHER LAND USE REGULATIONS FOR,
LAND WITHIN THE PREVIOUS FRANCHISE AREA OF THE INDEPENDENT SYSTEM
AT ANY TERMS AND CONDITIONS THAT THE SANITARY COMMISSION OR THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S DETERMINES TO BE APPROPRIATE.

(II) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH (3) OF
THIS SUBSECTION, THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER COUNTY MAY
MAKE LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS CONCERNING ZONING, DEVELOPMENT,
PERMITS, OR OTHER LAND USE REGULATIONS. ALSO, THE SANITARY
COMMISSION OF WORCESTER COUNTY MAY MAKE LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS TO
PROVIDE FOR WATER OR SEWER SERVICE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, it shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 14, 1987.

CHAPTER 120

(House Bill 1580)

AN ACT concerning

Frederick County - Alcoholic Beverages - Consumption

FOR the purpose of exempting Frederick County from certain
general provisions of law concerning hours for consuming
alcoholic beverages; prohibiting the consumption of
alcoholic beverages during certain hours on certain licensed

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