WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2019

Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico
County", sub-title "Salisbury—Water and Sewers", as amend-
ed by Chapter 141 of the Acts of 1945, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

335. For the purpose of providing funds for maintaining,
repairing and operating its water supply, sewerage and drain-
age systems, including overhead expense and proper depre-
ciation allowance, and for the purpose of providing funds
for the payment of the principal and interest on any bonds
heretofore or hereafter issued by the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury pursuant to proper authority, other than the au-
thority conferred by Section 321 of this sub-title, to provide
funds for the construction, alteration, extension or purchase
of the water, sewerage and drainage system contemplated by
this sub-title, and for the purpose of providing funds to be
used for extensions and additions to water supply, sewerage
and drainage systems, including water and sewer connections,
the Mayor and Council of Salisbury be, and it hereby is em-
powered and directed to make such service rates, water rents
or charges as it may deem necessary, chargeable against all
properties having a connection with any water pipe under its
ownership. Said rates shall be uniform throughout the City of
Salisbury, but subject to change from time to time as neces-
sary. Bills for the amount of the charges shall be sent quar-
terly or semi-annually as the Mayor and Council of Salisbury
may determine to each property served, and shall be thereupon
payable at the office of the Mayor and Council of Salisbury;
and if any bill shall remain unpaid after thirty (30) days
from the date of sending, the Mayor and Council of Salisbury
shall, after written notice, turn off the water from the prop-
erty in question, and it shall not be turned on again until
said bill shall have been paid. All such service rates shall
be liens against the property to which such water may be
furnished and shall be collectible as City taxes are now or
may hereafter be by law collected, and shall have the same
priority rights, bear the same interest and penalties and in
every respect to be treated the same as said taxes now are.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 25, 1947.