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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-626" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Sanitary Commissions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The secretary–treasurer of the sanitary commission shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Collect all charges and assessments made by the district;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Receive all money payable to the district; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Account to the sanitary commission for all money received.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To protect the funds of the district, the secretary–treasurer shall give bond to this State in accordance with this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount of and surety on the bond shall be approved by the sanitary commissioners.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The bond shall include the following condition:</text>
      <text>“That if .........., secretary–treasurer of the .......... District, shall well and faithfully execute the office of secretary–treasurer and shall account to the sanitary commission of the .......... District for all moneys which the secretary–treasurer receives for the sanitary commission of the .......... District, or is answerable for by law, then the obligation of this bond is void, otherwise to be in full force.”</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>After the bond has been approved by the sanitary commissioners, the secretary–treasurer shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Take, before the clerk of the circuit court for a member county, the oath of office required by Article I, § 9 of the Maryland Constitution; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>File the bond with the State Comptroller.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The sanitary commission may pay the premium on a bond given under this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
