WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4823

time to exempt from municipal taxation for a period not exceeding five
years from, June 1, 1920, such housing facilities, homes and dwellings, as
may be or which may have been located therein since the first day of April,
1920; the said Mayor and Council to determine what housing facilities,
homes and dwellings are within the meaning and purpose of this Act; pro-
vided, however, that such exemption from municipal taxation shall only
be granted when such housing facilities, homes and dwellings do not exceed
a cost of five thousand ($5,000) dollars for housing facilities, homes or
dwellings for one family; and, further, provided, that housing facilities,
homes and dwellings for more than one family and with more than one
family apartment or suite of rooms shall be exempted within the purpose
and meaning of this Act at the rate of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, for
each such family apartment or suite of rooms. Nothing in this Act shall
be construed to exempt from taxation the land upon which such housing
facilities, homes and dwellings shall be erected. The exemption from
municipal taxation authorized by this Act shall only be granted upon the
application of the person, persons or corporation applying to the said
Mayor and Council for the benefit hereof.
See sec. 802.

SEWERS.

1916, oh. 29, sec. 7.

438. So often as any portion of said sewerage system shall be in actual
operation and in a condition to collect, transmit and dispose of domestic
or house sewage, the said commission shall notify the Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown of that fact and impart to it the metes and bounds of said
portion of said sewerage system in such state of preparedness, and it shall
thereupon become its duty to require all owners of property within such
metes and bounds, and shall become the duty of all such owners at their
own cost and expense, to forthwith connect their respective house drains
at their respective property lines with said sewerage system, and to forth-
with clean out and fill up their respective privy sinks, wells, cesspools or
other sewerage or drainage receptacles, and to abandon the use of their
existing arrangements of every sort for the disposal of sewage or drainage
under the direction and control of said Mayor and Council of Hagerstown;
and full power is hereby conferred upon the Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown to pass any ordinance or ordinances and provide for any
remedial proceedings or processes or for any penalty or penalties that
may be necessary, in its judgment, to enable said Mayor and Council of
Hagerstown to properly and effectively comply with any of the obligations
hereinbefore imposed upon it by this section of this Act, and to keep the
drainage connections between said respective property lines and said sew-
erage system free from obstruction and in good working order; and to
do any and all things reasonably necessary to be done to compel said own-
ers of said property to place and maintain the same in relations of full
co-operation with said sewerage system.