Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-05-01
WATER AND SEWER BONDS.
CHAPTER S12.

of Rockville and constructing SEWERAGE
system and sewerage disposal plant or
plants in said town, and to provide for
special tax to pay the same and also
to provide for special tax to maintain
said plant when constructed and also
creating and defining the powers of a
commission consisting of seven persons
to assist and cooperate with said Mayor
and Council in the premises.
Section /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland. That the Mayor
and Council of Rockville be and it is here
by authorized and empowered to issue the
bonds of said corporation for such sum-
not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, as
may be necessary to improve and increase
the water supply Of the Town of Rockville
and to construct in said town sewerage
| system and in or near said town sewer
| age disposal plant or plants. Said bonds
to be issued from time to time as the
Mayor and Council of Rockville shall by
ordinance prescribe, and to be issued for
such amounts and to be payable at such
time or times and to bear such rates of
interest, not to exceed five per centum, as
the Mayor and Council of Rockville shall
| by ordinance provide. Said bonds to be
| signed by the Mayor, or the member of the
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Mayor, and countersigned by the Clerk
with the corporate seal Of said corporation
thereto attached, and to be sold at the
highest 0btainable price after due adver-
tisement for sealed bids, including publ
cation in one or more daily papers of Bal
timore city and Washington. ID. c.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the Mayor and Council of Rockville shall
by appropriate ordinance passed before
the issuance of said bonds provide for the
| payment Of the interest thereon and for
the payment of said bonds when and as
they shall mature and to this end said
Mayor and Council of Rockville shall levy
upon all property liable to taxation in said
town special tax sufficient for the pur-
pose Of paying said interest and the said
bonds at maturity. Such special tax, how
ever, shall not in any one year exceed
fifty cents on the hundred dollars assessed
value of said property. Said special tax
to be lien upon the property both real
and personal taxable hereunder to the
same extent that other corporation taxes
are now or may hereafter be and shall be
collected as other taxes in said town are,
or may hereafter be collected.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
said Mayor and Council of Rockville be and
it is hereby authorized and empowered to
levy special tax for the maintenance and
repair of the sewerage system and disposal
plant to be constructed not to exceed in
any one year the sum of five dollars
against any and every house in said town
connected with the sewerage, to be col
lected in the same manner as the scaven-
ger tax now allowed by law is collected;
provided that no occupant or owner of any
house in said town shall be required to
pay both the special tax authorized by
this Section and said scavenger tax.
Sec. 4. And be IL further enacted, That
said Mayor and Council of Rockville be and
it is hereby authorized and empowered to
acquire by gift, purchase. or other like
methods Of acquisition, or by cOndemna-
ton in the method provided by the General
Laws of the State of Maryland relating to
condemnation by corporations, any land,
or property situated wholly or partly in
said Town of Rockville or Montgomery
county, or any interest, franchise. ease
ment. rights. or privileges therein which
may be required for the purpose of con-
structing, establishing and maintaining
said sewerage system and sewerage dis
pOsal plant or plants, and improvement or
extension Of the water supply Of said town
Sec. 8. And be ii further enacted That
all individuals and corporations lawfully
having buildings, structures, works, con-
duits, mains, pipes, tracks or other physi-
cal distractions in over or under the streets,
alleys or highways Of said town, which
shall block or impede the progress of said
sewerage system, when in progress of con-
struction and establishment, shall, upon
reasonable notice from said Mayor and
Council, promptly so shift, adjust, accom-
modate or remove the same at their own
cost and expense, as to fully meet the ext
gencies. OccasiOning such notice and If
any such individual or corporation shall
refuse. neglect or fail, after such reason
able notice, 10 discharge any duty cast
upon him or il by this Section, he or ii,
shall in addition to, but not in substitution
for any other remedy or remedies that said
Mayor and Council may have in the prem
Uses, be subject to fine of one hundred
dollars for each and every offense, and
also TO an additional fine of fifty dollars q
day for every day that said refusal, neg
lect or failure shall continue said fines to
be collected as other fines in the Town of
Rockville are collected.
Sec 6. And be 1t further enacted, That
said Mayor and Council shall have power
to pass and to enforce by suitable penal
ties such ordinances as may be found
necessary to protect the water, sewerage
and disposal plant hereinbefore mentioned
and to require the connection Of all houses
within the present or future corporate
limit Of said Town OF Rockville with the
sewers to be constructed and generally to
pass and enforce all ordinances which il
may deem proper for the health and clean
illness Of said town.
Sec. 7. And be IL further enacted, That
a Commission Of seven persons, consisting
of DR.. Ernest l.. Buard, Charles W. Pretty
man, Robert Is. Peter, Richard II. Stokes.
William W. Welsh, Robert G.. Hilton and
DIR. Otis M. Linthicum. be and the same
are hereby appointed to assist and coop
crate with the said Mayor and Council Of
Rockville In the construction or extension
OF the water works. and the construction Of
the sewerage system and sewerage dis
pOsal plant or plants contemplated by this
Act. Said committee to act in an advisory
capacity, except that no plan shall be
adopted or contract made for any OF the
real estate needed or work mentioned In
this Act without the approval Of at least
majority Of said committee Any vacancy
In said committee caused by resignation
death, removal from the Town Of Rockville
or any other disability. shall be filled by
majority Of the remaining members OF said
committee.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
after the passage Of this Act no contract
for the purchase Of any supplies or mate
rial or work involving an expenditure Of
five hundred dollars ($50000) or more by
the Town Of Rockville shall be let or award
ed except to the lowest responsible bidder,
after due and proper advertisement for
sealed bids to be opened at a joint meeting.
properly called, Of the Mayor and Council
Of Rockville and the Advisory Committee,
provided for in Section Of this Act And
II shall be appropriate to require each bid
der to accompany his bid with a certified
check In the reasonable amount specified
in such advertisement and that a bond
with approved surety should be required
for the faithful performance Of any such
contract, checks to be returned to unsuc-
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