HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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relating to the Washington Suburban Sanitary District,
except that the commission shall not levy any ad valorem tax
or front foot benefit assessment against any property within
the areas added to or which may hereafter be added to, the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District by this Act until such
time as a water system or sewerage system has been
constructed to abut [said] THE property. When any such
system or systems have been constructed in any part of the
above described areas the property or properties which abut
thereon, and only those properties, shall no longer be
exempt from taxes and assessment charges but shall be
subject thereto. Any area once added to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary district, and the boundaries of [said] THE
district once established by or pursuant to this or any
other Act of the General Assembly, shall not be diminished
by any action of either the county council for Montgomery
County or the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.

(b-1) The Montgomery County Council may, and it is
hereby authorized to, extend the boundaries of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District, within Montgomery
County, from time to time, by ordinance, following a
referral of its proposed ordinance to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission and the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission for the review and
recommendations of [said] THE commissions. The [said]
commissions shall, within thirty days of such referral,
respectively transmit to the [said] county council their
recommendations on the proposed ordinance. In the event
that either of the [said] commissions shall recommend
against the enactment of such ordinance, a two-thirds vote
of the county council shall be necessary for the enactment
of the proposed ordinance extending the boundaries of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District to the area set forth
in [said] THE proposed ordinance or any part thereof.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That chapter(s)
of the Acts of the General Assembly be repealed, amended, or
enacted to read as follows:

Chapter 115 of the Acts of 1971

[SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Washington Suburban Sanitary District
Code, 1969 Edition, with the 1970 Supplement, published
under the direction of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission by the Michie City Publications Company,
Incorporated, containing the public local laws of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary District as set forth in
Articles 16 and 17, respectively, of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, titled, respectively, "Montgomery
County" and "Prince George's County," both subtitled
"Washington Suburban Sanitary District," is legalized. The
Code shall contain all public local laws of the subtitle
"Washington Suburban Sanitary District" which have been
enacted and which are still in force, and all such public