THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1511

430H. For the purpose of paying the interest and princi-
pal of the bonds issued by said Commission as in this sub-
title provided for the water supply, sewerage or drainage
systems to be constructed, purchased or established under
this sub-title, the said Commission is hereby empowered to
establish a proper and reasonable charge for connection
with said water supply, sewerage and drainage system so
to be constructed, purchased or established as aforesaid,
and to fix an annual assessment on all properties, improved
or unimproved, binding upon a street, road, lane, alley or
right-of-way in which a water main, sewer or drain has
been built. The said annual assessment shall be made
upon the front foot basis, and the first payment shall be
collected during the year in which the construction is com-
pleted on the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems,
or in which the systems are purchased or acquired. The
said Commission for the purpose of assessing benefits shall
divide all properties binding upon a street, road, lane, alley
or right-of-way, in which a water pipe or sanitary sewer
is to be laid, into four classes, namely: Agricultural, small
acreage, industrial or business, and sub-division property,
and the Commission may sub-divide each of said classes in
such manner as it may deem to be in the public interest.
Whenever any water supply or sewerage project in said
sanitary district or sanitary districts shall have been com-
pleted by March 31st, in any one year, regardless of when
said construction was commenced, then the said Commis-
sion shall fix and levy a benefit charge as of the first day of
January in which the project was completed upon all prop-
erty in said sanitary district abutting upon said water main
or sewer, in accordance with the classification or sub-
division thereof, and shall in writing, notify all owners
of said properties into which class and sub-division their
respective properties fall and the charge determined
upon, naming also in said notice a time and place,
when and at which time said owner will be heard. Such
notice may be mailed to the last known address of the
owner, or served in person upon any adult occupying the
premises or in case of a vacant or unimproved property
posted upon the premises. The classification of and the
benefit assessed against any property as made by the Com-
mission shall be final, subject only to revision at said hear-
ing. The Commission may change the classification of
property from time to time as said properties change in
the uses to which they are put. Said benefits shall be levied
for both water supply and sewerage construction and shall
be based for each class of property upon the number of