42 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 13

other than a municipal system, the construction of which
has been added in whole or in part to the purchase price
of land or lots abutting upon said system and which con-
tribution the Commission has determined to be a factor in
the cost to the Commission of such, system, the Commission
may, in its discretion, levy a front foot assessment less than
the uniform front foot assessment levied in the remainder
of the sanitary district in which said system is located. The
amount of the charge per front foot for each class of prop-
erty for both water mains and sewers may be reduced from
time to time by the Commission in its discretion, if costs
and conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction.
Said benefit charge shall be paid annually by all properties
located as above specified, for a period of years co-extensive
with the period of maturity of the bonds out of the proceeds
of which such construction was done.

380M.. The Commission shall at any time permit a con-
nection with a water main or sewer and by the property
owner whose property does not abut on said water main
or sewer and who has not previously thereto paid a benefit
charge for the construction of said water main or sewer, pro-
vided, said Commission shall classify said property and de-
termine a front foot charge to be paid by said property
owner as though his or her property abutted upon said
water main or sewer; and in the event of such connection
being made, said property owner and said property as to all
charges, rates and benefits shall stand in every respect in
the same position as if the said property abutted upon a
water main or sewer.

380N. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office
of the Commission immediately upon being levied, and shall
be overdue and in default after sixty (60) days from that
day, at which time the Commission may proceed to enforce
payment thereof; and the said benefit charge and any
judgment or decree obtained as a result of default in pay-
ment thereof shall bear interest at the rate of one-half of
one percentum (1/2%) per month from and after the time
said benefit assessment or other charges are in default.

380-O. The annual benefit assessments or other charges
as above specified shall be a first lien upon the property
against which they are assessed until paid, subject only to
prior State and county taxes, and if any property be sold
for State and/or county taxes or both by the Treasurer of
said County; and if after sale there be a surplus after all
costs and expenses incident to such sale shall have been paid,
then the said Commission upon proper petition to the Cir-
cuit Court for said county shall be allowed any balance
from said surplus, and shall be a preferred lienor to the