Ch. 559

1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Section 6-113

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

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

Article 29 - Washington Suburban Sanitary District

1-204.

(a) The WSSC:

(1)     Before January 15 of each year, shall prepare capital and operating
budgets for the next fiscal year, which shall be open for inspection by the public and
copies shall be made available to the public on request;

(2)     Before February 15 of each year, shall hold a public hearing on the
proposed budgets after giving at least 21 days' notice, of the hearing by publication in at
least [1 newspaper] 2 NEWSPAPERS published and generally circulated in Montgomery
County and 2 newspapers published and generally circulated in Prince George's County;

(3)     On or before March 1 of each year, shall prepare and submit to the
County Executives of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, the capital and
operating budgets for the WSSC, for the next fiscal year together with the record of any
public hearing which was held on the budgets;

(4)     Shall identify the sources of revenue allocable to the various proposed
expenditures;

(5)     Shall propose a complete schedule of rates for the water consumption
and sewer usage charges and ad valorem tax levies that the WSSC considers necessary to
finance the budgets;

(6)     Shall certify the amounts necessary to be raised for the next year for the
payment of interest and principal on all outstanding bonds and notes of the WSSC; and

(7)     Between March 1 and April 1 of each year, may submit to the County
Executives of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties amendatory items to the
proposed budgets, together with a declaration of need identifying the sources of revenue
allocable to the proposed amendatory items.

6-113.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2) "FIXTURE UNIT" MEANS THE ASSIGNED VALUE FOR A PARTICULAR
PLUMBING FIXTURE, OR GROUP OF PLUMBING FIXTURES, AS SET FORTH IN THE
WSSC PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING REGULATIONS, STANDARDIZED WITH A
COMMON LAVATORY HAVING AN ASSIGNED VALUE OF 1 BASED ON ITS PROBABLE
DISCHARGE INTO THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM OR HYDRAULIC DEMAND ON THE WATER
SUPPLY.

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