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sion of 1937), authorizing The Mayor and Council of Salis-
bury to establish such service rates, charges or water rents
as it may deem necessary, chargeable against all properties
connected with the water system.

SECTION 1. Be It enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 335 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County",
sub-title "Salisbury—Water and Sewers", as amended by Chap-
ter 428 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland (Reg-
ular Session of 1937), be and the same is hereby repealed and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 deprecia-
tion 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 authority con-
ferred 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
solely for extensions and additions to water works facilities,
including water and sewer connections, The Mayor and Coun-
cil of Salisbury be and it hereby is empowered 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 necessary. Bills for the amount
of the charges shall be sent quarterly or semi-annually as the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury may determine to each prop-
erty 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 property 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 penal-
ties 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 immedi-