HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 705

of, any public or private alley located in Baltimore City, at
any time or times and from time to time, to promote the public
health, safety and convenience:

(a) Grade, regrade, repair, pave or repave any such alleys;

(b) Construct, reconstruct, install, alter or repair any and
all necessary drains, drainage facilities and appurtenances,
and

(c) Construct, reconstruct, install, alter, repair, remove or
relocate any guard rail, guard fence, wall, embankment, sup-
port, hedge, driveway, apron or approach in or immediate ad-
jacent to any such alley.

Said municipality is authorized to determine the costs of
said work and to assess such costs, in whole or in part, upon
the owner of, or upon the interests of any and all owners of,
property binding or abutting on any such alley, or upon the
owner of, or upon the interests of any and all owners of, prop-
erty in the vicinity of any such alley who are benefited by any
or all of the work done, and all such assessments shall be liens
on the properties involved until paid. Such assessments may
be collected as taxes or special assessments are now collected
by said City.

Such assessments shall be made upon such basis as may be
determined by the City and the City is hereby empowered to
classify the work mentioned in Sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and
(c) above, the owners of such abutting or benefited proper-
ties and the assessments against them, and to exempt any class
or classes of properties or property owners from such assess-
ments, in whole or in part.

Notice shall be given and all interested parties shall be
afforded an opportunity to be heard in connection with the
necessity for doing any work not actually in the bed of? or
immediately adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, any such alley,
and notice shall be given in connection with the liability of
all interested parties to pay the whole or any part of the costs
of doing any or all of the work mentioned in Sub-paragraphs
(a), (b) or (c) above, and such parties shall have the right
to appeal to any duly constituted authority or court having
jurisdiction in connection with any and all questions pertain-
ing to the rights or liabilities of any such parties.

The City is authorized, by ordinance, to do any and all
things necessary or proper in connection with, and to put into
effect, any and all of the matters and things mentioned here-
inabove.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all public
general laws or public local laws, and any and all parts
thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.

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