WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 29
CHAPTER 12.
(Senate Bill 15)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
335 of Article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1930 Edition), title "Baltimore County", sub-title
"Health and Sanitation" (Metropolitan District), as the
same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 1017 of the
Acts of 1945, so as to permit the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County in their discretion to create subclassifi-
cations of the classes of properties therein referred to
fronting upon a street, lane or alley in which a water pipe
or sanitary sewer is to be laid in each calendar year so as
to reflect the cost of installation of any such water pipe
or sanitary sewer in any such year, so as to provide for
uniform assessments for each class of property and for
each such subclassification thereof.

WHEREAS, Section 335 of Article 3 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), now provides that
all assessments and charges, except connection charges and
charges or assessments made pursuant to agreement under
Section 330, shall be uniform for each class of property
throughout the (Metropolitan) District, and shall be subject
to change annually; and

WHEREAS, the County Commissioners of Baltimore County
have established front foot assessments for the five classes of
property set forth in said section; and

WHEREAS, numerous water supply and sewerage systems
have been installed over a long period of years and the front
foot assessments assessed in accordance with the rates so
established have made it possible for said systems to be
financially self-supporting, and in numerous cases in which
it was impossible to make certain systems financially self-
supporting by the assessment of such front foot assessments
property owners have paid the County Commissioners of
Baltimore County such sums as were necessary to make up
the deficit; and

WHEREAS, as a result of the greatly increased cost of in-
stalling sewer and water facilities the front foot assessments
as heretofore established are not in many cases sufficient to
make new installations self-supporting; and

WHEREAS, it is unreasonable and unfair to increase the
said front foot assessments against those properties which
are financially self-supporting on the basis of the front foot
assessments already assessed against and being collected from