294 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 145

being Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Montgomery County", sub-title "Addi-
tional Powers—Streets, Sidewalks, etc. ", relating to the
assessments levied to cover the cost of sidewalk con-
struction in the Town of Kensington, the collection of
said assessments, and generally to sidewalk construction
in the Town of Kensington.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 110-14 of the Montgomery County
Code (1950 Edition), being Article 16 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Montgomery County", sub-
title "Additional Powers—Streets, Sidewalks, etc. ", be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

110-14. To establish the grades of the streets, gutters
and sidewalks of said town, fix the width thereof and
describe the material of which they shall be constructed, to
cause the sidewalks along the public streets to be graded,
paved, repaved or improved, and the Council of the town
of Kensington shall have power to lay sidewalks in said
town, and [shall] may assess the cost thereof as follows:
Two-thirds thereof against the abutting property owner or
owners, and one-third thereof against all the assessable
property in the corporate limits of said town, [and] The
Council of said town of Kensington may assess less than
two-thirds of the cost of laying any such sidewalk against
the abutting property owner or owners in any case in which
said Council determines that said abutting property is not
primarily benefited by the construction of said sidewalk and
the remaining fraction of said cost shall be assessed against
all the assessable property in the corporate limits of said
town; the proportion of the assessments against said abut-
ting property owner or owners in such case shall conform
as nearly as possible to the proportion of the benefit derived
by said abutting property owner or owners from the con-
struction of said sidewalk. The said tax so assessed shall
become a lien against the taxable property in said town,
two-thirds or less thereof against the property owner or
owners whose property shall abut on said sidewalks, and
one-third or more thereof against all the taxable property
in the corporate limits of said town, and the said tax so
assessed against the abutting property and the said tax so
assessed against all the property in the corporate limits of
said town for sidewalk improvements may be recovered at
law or in the manner provided by law for the collection of
delinquent State and county taxes, or said Council of said