HARFORD COUNTY. 2979

1922, ch. 479, sec. 341A.

338. The Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace shall have the
power to pass ordinances to survey and establish the grades of streets,
street lines, curb lines and building lines, and to provide penalties for
the violation of any of said ordinances not to exceed the sum of $100 and
penalties shall be payable to the Mayor and City Council of Havre de
Grace upon conviction before a Justice of the Peace of Harford County.
The said Mayor and City Council shall also have the power, by ordinance,
to provide that the cost of grading, laying and paving streets and con-
structing curbs shall be assessed against the abutting property, but not,
more than one-fourth of the cost of grading and laying said street shall
be assessed to the abutting property, provided that not more than one-
half the cost of said grading and paving or curb construction shall be so
assessed and that the owners of the abutting property so assessed shall have
the right to pay said assessments in ten equal annual installments. The
said Mayor and City Council shall have the power to provide by ordi-
nance for the levying or imposing of similar special assessments upon the
property abutting upon streets which have already been graded, paved or
curbed by the City without special assessment or payment of any part
of the cost upon said abutting property. Provided, however, that the
power to assess a part of the cost of grading, paving and curbing shall
only apply where an improved pavement has been laid or shall be laid,
and "improved pavement" shall mean any substantial smooth paving
above the grade of ordinary macadam, and shall include sheet asphalt,
granite or belgian blocks, vitrified brick, bithulitic, bituminous macadam,
and bituminous concrete. Special assessments shall not be levied on curbs
unless constructed of concrete or material equally substantial.

Special assessments levied under the authority of this section shall be
collected in the same manner as other taxes in the City of Havre de Grace
and be subject to the same penalties for non-payment.
Keen v. Havre de Grace, 93 Md. 39.

1922, ch. 479, sec. 341B.

339. The Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace shall have the
power to pass ordinances that the road bed of any street within said city
shall be open and made safe for the public travel to the full width of the
street from curb to curb, after the said curb lines, etc., shall have been
established.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 342.

340. Nothing in this Act shall be held to authorize the Mayor and City
Council of Havre de Grace to regulate the rates of charge by the Havre
de Grace Water Company of Harford County for water supplied by it to
the inhabitants of Havre de Grace, nor the rates of charge by the Havre
de Grace Electric Company of Harford County for light supplied by it
to the inhabitants of Havre de Grace, nor to authorize the condemnation,
of the plant and property of either of said companies.