WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         S.B. 893

depreciation, or on other terms and conditions satisfactory to the municipality or person
transferring the project. All costs and obligations assumed by the Service incidental to the
transfer of ownership shall be included in the charge levied against the service district.

(e) At the request of any person or municipality having the responsibility for the
collection of liquid waste or solid waste, the Service may enter into a contract to provide
management and operation of waste collection services in any service district as an
adjunct to the mandatory provision of projects as set forth in subsections (a) through (d)
of this section, if (1) as a condition to the provision of management and operation of
waste collection services, the municipality or person enters into a contract upon terms the
Service determines reasonable; and (2) the Service and the municipality or person
requesting collection services determines by agreement from time to time the charges
including the amount and frequency of payments to the Service.

3-108.

(a)     In calculating charges for water supply [and waste management contracts],
WASTEWATER PURIFICATION AND SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL PROJECTS OR SERVICES
[and] OR in determining the [local] costs to be levied against a service district
established pursuant to this subtitle, the Service shall require that the charges reflect the
full costs of projects. The charges and costs to be levied against any particular
municipality or person located within a service district shall take account of the value and
capacity of any existing facility transferred by the municipality or person to the Service,
and the costs and obligations assumed by the Service incidental to the transfer of the
facility. To the extent deemed reasonable and practicable by the Service, charges for
[waste management] PROJECTS OR SERVICES also shall be based on but not necessarily
limited to a formula reflecting the volume and characteristics of the wastes as they
influence transportation, purification, final disposal, and time pattern of discharge.

(b)     If a municipality fails to pay the Service for projects OR SERVICES provided
pursuant to this subtitle within 60 days of the due date, as established by contract OR
INVOICE, all State funds, or that portion of them required, relating to the income tax, the
tax on racing, the recordation tax, the tax on amusements and the license tax thereafter to
be distributed to the municipality shall be paid by the Comptroller of Maryland directly to
the Service until the AMOUNT PAID TO THE Service is [reimbursed] EQUAL TO THE
AMOUNT DUE THE SERVICE BY THE MUNICIPALITY.

(c)     If a person fails to pay the Service for projects provided by this subtitle within
60 days of the due date, as established by contract, the unpaid bill becomes a lien against
the property served, if it is recorded and indexed as provided in this subtitle, and shall be
referred to the Attorney General for collection.

(d)     The governing body of any county may charge the Service a fee for final
disposal of solid waste at any solid waste disposal project [located in] OWNED BY that
county PROVIDED THAT ANY FEES CHARGED THE SERVICE ARE NOT GREATER
THAN THOSE CHARGED OTHER USERS OF ANY SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL PROJECT.

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