506 ARTICLE 2.

upon conviction, be subject to a fine not exceeding $100.00, or to confine-
ment for not more than thirty days in the county jail, or both, in the
discretion of the magistrate or Circuit Court. Where such act or omission
is of a continuing nature and is persisted in, in violation of the provisions

of this Act or of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a convic-
tion for one offense shall not be a bar to the conviction for a continuation

of such offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 24.

446. Any land owned by a church, and constituting the premises occu-
pied by such church or its parsonage, and used exclusively for public wor-
ship or for other religious or customary purposes of a church or parsonage
and not for investment, gain or other secular purposes, shall be exempt
from the benefit assessments provided for by this Act in respect of a front-
age of not exceeding 150 feet; and this exemption shall take effect from

and after the passage of this Act. The Commission may, in its discretion,
exercise in each individuel case, grant or withhold a further exemption

of land so owned and used in respect of any frontage thereof in excess of
the 150 feet hereinbefore provided for.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 25.

447. The Public Service Commission of Maryland is hereby given
jurisdiction to determine, upon appeal, the reasonableness of all assess-
ments, tax levies or service charges, as in the case of public service cor-
porations, upon written complaint of any one financially interested there-
in, under such regulations as said Public Service Commission may from
time to time order and provide. All appeals shall be taken within thirty
days from the date of the promulgation or levy of any such assessment,
tax levy or service charge by the Sanitary Commission.

1927, ch. 676, sec. 26.

448. For the purpose of providing for its expenses (including depre-
ciation of its property), the Commission each year, commencing with the
year 1927, shall prepare an itemized and detailed budget showing the un-
expended balance on hand at the beginning of each year of all funds
available for payment of its said expenses, the amount of its estimated
expenses of each class during the coming year, and finally the amount
necessary to be raised by local taxation as provided in this section for the
purpose of meeting said estimated expenses, together with a detailed state-
ment of the assessable basis within each Sanitary District, said Board of
County Commissioners are hereby authorized, empowered, directed and
required to levy and collect all road taxes within each Sanitary District,

and shall pay over from said road tax so collected to the Sanitary Com-
mission the amount necessary to meet the expenses of said Commission
as shown in said budget, not exceeding two-thirds of all said road tax, and
shall pay over said amounts quarterly in as nearly equal installments as
possible. The Board of County Commissioners are hereby authorized and