2790 ARTICLE 12.

nection being made, said property owner and said property, as to all
charges, rates and assessments, shall in every respect stand in the same
position as if the said property abutted upon a water main or sewer.
The annual assessments as above specified shall be a first lien upon the
property against which they are assessed, subject only to prior state, coun-
ty and municipal charges, and shall be enforced by a judgment upon com-
plaint of the Mayor and Town Council before any justice of the peace or
the Circuit Court of Garrett County, and usual execution thereon. No
such annual assessment 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 at the

office of the clerk of Garrett County. Said assessment shall be payable
at the office of the Mayor and Town Council 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. 381, sec. 7.

272. Said Mayor and Town Council shall provide for each and every
property abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which, under this Act
a water main or sewer is laid, a water and sewer connection which shall
be extended as required, from the water main and sewer to the property
line of the abutting lot, said connection to be constructed by, and at the
sole expense of the Mayor and Town Council. When any water main or
sewer is declared by the Mayor and Town Council complete and ready
for the delivery of water or the reception of sewage, every abutting prop-

erty owner, after due notice, shall make connection of all spigots or hy-
drants, toilets, sink drains, wash trays, etc., with said water main and

sewer within the time prescribed by the Mayor and Town Council. Where

the aforesaid fixtures do not exist or are of a nature which, in the judg-
ment of the Mayor and Town Council is improper or inadequate, satis-
factory equipment shall be installed. All wells that are found by the
Mayor and Town Council of the County or State health authorities, to be
polluted or a menace to health shall be abandoned and closed. Any viola-
tions of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor punisable
under Section 281 of this Article.

1924, ch. 381, sec. 8.

273. Before any plumbing is done in any building or upon any pri-
vate property, within the corporate limits of the said town, or on any
property outside of said limits that connects with a water main or sewer
under the jurisdiction of the Mayor and Town Council, the person, firm

or corporation doing the same shall first obtain a permit from the Mayor

and Town Council and pay therefor such reasonable sum as the Mayor
and Town Council may prescribe. Such work shall be done under and
pursuant to such rules, regulations and requirements as the Mayor and