THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1513

permit a connection with a water main or sewer 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, provided, said Commission shall classify said prop-
erty and determine 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 connec-
tion being made, said property owner and said property as
to all charges, rates and benefits shall stand in every re-
spect in the same position as if the said property abutted
upon a water main or sewer. 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 bene-
fit charge and any judgment or decree obtained as a result
of default in payment thereof shall bear interest at the
rate of one-half of one per centum (½%) per month from
and after the time said benefit assessment or other charges
are in default. The annual benefit assessment or other
charges as above specified shall be a first lien upon the
property against which they are assessed until paid, any
statute of limitations to the contrary notwithstanding, sub-
ject only to prior State and county taxes, and if any prop-
erty be sold for State and/or county taxes or both by the
Treasurer of said County; and if after sale there is a sur-
plus after all costs and expenses incident to such sale shall
have been paid, then the said Commission upon proper
petition to the Circuit Court for said county shall be allowed
any balance from said surplus, and shall be a preferred
lienor to the extent of its lien; and for the purpose of giving
notice to the general public as to existing liens and charges
against any property within any sanitary district abutting
upon any water or sewer main, the said Commission shall
keep a public record of all names of owners of property,
locations of said property, lot numbers when of record, and
the amount of such benefit charges, water service charges
or such other charges that may become liens from time to
time. Said records shall be kept in the County seat of
government and among the land records of Harford County,
and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall
furnish such space as may be necessary to keep and pre-
serve such records, which, when recorded in said public
record, shall be legal notice of all existing liens within any
sanitary district. If any liens, benefit assessments or other
charges remain unpaid for sixty (60) days after becoming