1806 ARTICLE 7.

sinking fund bonds are used, or in said "Water Supply Bond Account,"
if serial bonds are used, from the whole amount necessary to be raised in
any one year for interest and sinking fund on outstanding bonds, if sink-
ing fund bonds are used, or for interest and principal on outstanding
bonds, if serial bonds are used, and the balance remaining to be raised
shall be the amount to be collected by taxation as provided under Sec-
tion 246.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 12.

253. For the purpose of providing funds for maintaining, repairing,
and operating their water supply system, including overhead expenses
and property depreciation allowance, said Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy
shall be empowered and directed to make such service rates as it may
deem necessary, chargeable against all properties having a connection
with any water main under its ownership. Said rates shall be uniform
throughout, the town of Mt. Airy, but subject to change from time to time,
as necessary. The rates for service shall consist of a minimum or ready-
to-serve charge which shall be based upon the size of the meter on the
water connection leading to the property, and of a charge for water used,
which shall be based upon the amount of 'water passing the meter during
the period between the last two readings, said meter being required to be
placed on each water connection by, and at the sole expense of the Mayor
and Council of Mt. Airy. Bills for the amount of the charges as above
specified shall be sent quarterly or semi-annually, as the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy may determine, to each property served, and shall
thereupon be payable at the Office of the Mayor and Council of Mt.
Airy; and if any bill shall remain unpaid after thirty days from date
of sending, the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy shall, after written notice
to be left upon the premises or mailed to the last known address of the
owner, turn off the water from the property in question and it shall not
be turned on again until said bills shall have been paid. If any bill shall
remain unpaid for sixty days after being sent out by the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy, it shall be collectible against the owner of the prop-
erty served, in the same manner as other debts are collectible in the town
of Mt. Airy.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 13.

254. The Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy may enter upon any State,
county or municipal street, road or alley or any public highway, for the
purpose of installing, maintaining and operating the water supply system
provided for under this Act, and it may construct in such street, road or
alley or public highway, a water main, or any appurtenance thereof, with-
out the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge; provided that
whenever any state, county or municipal highway is to be disturbed, the
public authority having control thereof shall be duly notified, and provided
further, that said highway shall be repaired and left by the Mayor and
Council of Mt. Airy in the same, or a not inferior condition to that existing