HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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and use of an alternate method of assessing certain
properties in St. Mary's County for water and sewer
services.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County

Section 113-9 E.

Article 19 - Public Local Laws of Maryland

(1978 Edition and September, 1984 Supplement, as amended)

Preamble

WHEREAS, The St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission
currently is allowed to assess a benefit assessment charge under
the Sanitary Code section of the Public Local Laws of St. Mary's
County Code under Section 113-9, entitled Benefit Charges; and

WHEREAS, The purpose of the benefit assessment charge is to
pay the principal and interest on the bonds issued by the
Commission for the water supply and sewerage systems to be
constructed, purchased, or established by the Commission; and

WHEREAS, The Commission wishes to augment the current
benefit assessment charge by incorporating an additional system
of guidelines which would could be utilized to retire certain
debts resulting from a capital improvement project initiated
after July 1, 1985; and

WHEREAS, The new method of assessment would be labeled the
"Equal Benefit Assessment"; and

WHEREAS, This new method of assessment shall amend current
Section 113-9 of the Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County Code
entitled "Benefit Charges", but there will be no deletions of the
present law; and

WHEREAS, The purpose of the proposed legislation is merely
to provide an alternative method of assessment under Section
113-9 of the Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County; now,
therefore,

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 19 - St. Mary's County

113-9.

E. In classifying property and levying any front foot
benefit charge[, and] ANY [irregularly shaped] lot abutting upon
a street, road, lane, alley, right-of-way or easement in which
there is or is being constructed a water main or sewer shall be
assessed for the frontage determined by the Commission to be