ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. 497

or right-of-way, in which a water pipe or sanitary sewer is to be laid,
into four classes, namely: agricultural, small acreage, industrial or busi-
ness, and sub-division property, and the Commission may subdivide each
of said classes in such manner as it may deem to be in the public interest.
Immediately upon the commencement of a water supply or sewerage
project in said district or districts, the Commission is empowered and
directed in fix and levy a benefit charge upon all property in said district
abutting upon said water main or sewer, in accordance with the classifica-
tion, or sub-division thereof, and shall in writing, notify all owners of
said properties into which class and sub-division their respective proper-
ties fall and the charge determined upon, naming also in said notice a
time and place, when and at which said owner will be heard. Such notice
may be mailed to the last known address of the owner, or served in per-
son upon any adult occupying the premises, or in case of a vacant or un-
improved property posted upon the premises. The classification of and
the benefit assessed against any property as made by the Commission shall
be final, subject only to revision at said hearing. The Commission may
change the classification of property from time to time as said properties
change in the uses to which they are put. Said benefits shall be levied
for both water supply and sewerage construction and shall be based for
each class of property upon the number of front feet abutting upon the
street, lane, road, alley or right-of-way in which the water pipe or sewer is
placed; provided, however, that in the case of any irregular shaped lot
having a frontage on two or more streets and abutting upon a road, street,
lane, alley or right-of-way in which there is or is being constructed a water
main or sewer at any point of said frontage shall be assessed for said front-
age as the Commission may determine to be reasonable and fair, not, how-
ever, to exceed the longest frontage on any one street; and provided fur-
ther that no lot in a subdivision property shall be assessed on more than
one side unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that corner lots
in this class shall be assessed on that frontage towards which the building
should naturally face, and this shall be determined by the Commission,
and that all lots in this class shall be assessed for their full frontage even
though a water main or sewer may not extend along the full length of any
boundary; and provided further, that no land so classified as agricultural
by this Commission shall be assessed a front foot benefit when such agri-
cultural land has constructed through it or in front of it a sewer or water
main, until such time as a water or sewer connection is made, and when
so made and for every connection such land shall become liable to a front
foot assessment for such reasonable frontage, not exceeding three hun-
dred feet, as may be determined by said Commission, and shall be imme-
diately assessed at the rate of assessment determined by said Commis-
sion for agricultural land. Front foot benefit charges for water supply
and sewerage construction shall be as nearly uniform as is reasonably
practical for each class or sub-class of property throughout each Sanitary
District for any one year and no benefit charge once levied, shall be in-
creased; provided, however, that whenever the Commission acquires an