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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="9-711" title_number="9" title_name="Water, Ice, and Sanitary Facilities" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Regulation by Municipalities and Political Subdivisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A municipal authority may issue bonds when and in the amounts needed to provide funds for all or part of a system’s:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Design;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Construction;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Extension;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Alteration;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Purchase; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Condemnation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The bonds issued under this subtitle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>May be issued without previous legislative authority;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>May be outstanding in addition to the total indebtedness otherwise permitted by law;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>May be of any type and denomination determined by the municipal authority, so long as no bonds mature later than 50 years from the date of issue;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Shall be exempt forever from any State, county, or municipal taxation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Shall be a lien on all property within the municipality that issues them.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before issuing bonds under Part II of this subtitle, a municipal authority shall submit to a referendum of the voters of the municipality the question of whether to issue the bonds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The referendum shall be held at:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any regular municipal election; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A special municipal election, provided that the voters are given at least 20 days’ notice of the election.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The referendum ballot shall include the words “for ... bonds” and “against ... bonds”.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>If a majority of the votes cast are “for ... bonds”, the municipal authority may issue the bonds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If a majority of the votes cast are “against ... bonds”, the municipal authority:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May not issue the bonds; but</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>May submit the question at any later regular or special municipal election as provided under this section, until a majority of the votes cast is “for ... bonds”.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
