J. MILLARD T AWES, Governor 11

That Sections 328C and 328D of Article 7 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Carroll County", sub-title
"Roads", as said sections were enacted by Chapter 340 of the Acts
of 1961, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

328C.

The County Commissioners shall, on or before January 1 of each
year, certify its benefit assessments hereunder to the Collector of
State and County Taxes for Carroll County for collection from the
property owners affected, and said Collector shall add said benefit
assessments to the State and county property tax bills for collection
each year [subject to discount and interest allowances or charges as
now provided by law for Carroll County taxes on real property]
without interest or discount and upon failure of payment of said
benefit assessments, they may be deducted from any surplus in the
hands of the [Treasurer] Collector of State and County Taxes for
Carroll County after a sale for non-payment of State and county
property taxes, [under proper order of the Circuit Court. ] In the
alternative, the lien created [in favor of] by the annual benefit assess-
ments may be enforced by bill in equity or by action in personam.

328D.

Before the powers granted by this section to the County Commis-
sioners shall be exercised there shall first be the petition of property
owners as hereinbefore provided requesting improvements; public
hearing upon said petition after ten days' notice in a newspaper
regularly published in Carroll County; approval of said petition by
the County Commissioners; and the passage of an appropriate ordi-
nance, pursuant to the authority of this section, setting forth the
improvements being constructed, the property owners affected, and
all material terms of the annual benefit assessments levied to pay the
cost of said improvements, or any reasonable portion thereof, as
determined by the County Commissioners; provided that no assess-
ment shall exceed [ten per centum (10%) of the assessed value of
the property] the total assessed value of the property, excluding any
improvements thereon, after giving effect to benefits accruing thereto
from the improvement for which assessed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1962.

Approved March 23, 1962.

CHAPTER 5
(Senate Bill 7)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 171A of
Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, (1930
Edition), title "St. Mary's County", sub-title "Retirement System",
said section having been added by Chapter 624 of the Acts of 1961,
to change the age at which St. Mary's County employees receive