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require. Said benefit charges shall be paid annually beginning in the
year such construction is begun, by all properties located as above speci-
fied, for a period of years co-extensive with the period of maturity of the
bonds out of the proceeds of which such construction was done; provided,
however, that any owner of property in the residential or sub-division or
business or industrial class may, at his. option, extinguish at any time
said benefit charge by the payment, in cash, of an amount which, if put
at interest 'at 3% per cent, compounded annually, would yield an annuity
equal to the annual assessments for the period for which the bonds have,
at the time the option is exercised, still to run. The Mayor and Council
of Mt. Airy shall at any time permit a connection with a water main by
a property owner whose property does not abut on said water main, and
who has not previous thereto paid a benefit for the construction of said
water main, provided the said Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy shall first
determine the classification of said property, and a front foot charge to
be paid by said property owner as though his property abutted on said
water main, and in the event of such connection being made said property
owner and said property, as to all charges, rates and benefits shall in
every respect stand in the same position as if the said property abutted
upon a water main. The annual benefit charges as above specified shall
be a first lien upon the property against which they are assessed, subject
only to prior State, county and municipal charges, and shall be enforced
by a judgment upon complaint of the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy
before any Justice of the Peace or Circuit Court for Carroll County, and
usual execution thereon. No such annual benefit charges shall continue
as a lien for a period longer than two years from the date from which the
same became in default, unless it is reduced to a judgment and duly
recorded among the records of the office of the Clerk of Carroll County.
Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office of the Mayor and Council
of Mt. Airy immediately upon being levied, and shall be in default after
60 days from that date; and said levy, and any judgment obtained as a
result of the default of the payment thereof, shall bear interest at the
rate of 1 per cent, a month from and after the time said levy is in default.

1924, ch. 126, sec. 8.

597. The Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy shall provide for each and
every property abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this
Act, a water main is laid, a water connection which shall be extended as re-
quired, from the water main to the property line of the abutting lot, said
connection to be constructed by, and at the sole expense of the Mayor
and Council of Mt. Airy. When any water main is declared by the said
Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy complete and ready for the delivery of
water, every abutting property owner, after due notice, shall make con-
nection of all spigots or hydrants, toilets, with said water main within a
time prescribed by the said Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy. Where the
aforesaid fixtures do not exist or are of a nature which, in the judgment
of the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy, is improper or inadequate, satis-