THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 575

by the Town Commissioners of the Town to be complete
and ready for the delivery of sewage, every abutting
property owner, after due notice, shall make such connec-
tion as to discharge all of the sewage from said property
into said main, within a time prescribed by said Town
Commissioners. Upon the completion of such connection,
it shall become the duty of said owners of said property
forthwith either to seal up or fill up their privy sinks,
wells, cesspools, drains or sewage receptacles, and to
abandon the use of the same, upon the direction and con-
trol of the Town. The Town shall have power and author-
ity to provide by ordinance or ordinances when and how
such connection shall be made, and fines and penalties for
the failure, neglect or refusal of property owners or occu-
pants of houses or other buildings and land in said Town
to make or permit such connection, or to seal up or fill
up such wells, privy sinks, cesspools, drains or other sew-
age facilities, and for injuries to and interference with
said sewers, drains, pipes and connections, and said fines
and penalties shall be collected as other fines and penalties
are collected. Where appropriate facilities do not exist,
or are of a nature, which in the judgment of the Mayor
and Common Council of the Town, are unsatisfactory,
improper or inadequate, satisfactory equipment shall be
installed.

492. The Town is hereby authorized and empowered to
make a proper and reasonable charge for connection with
said sewerage system so to be constructed and established
as aforesaid, and to change and vary said connection
charges from time to time in order to reflect costs. The
Town is further authorized and empowered to fix an annual
assessment on all property, improved and unimproved,
binding on a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way in
which a sewer main has been built. All such annual assess-
ments shall be made upon the front foot basis. The first
payment may be made collectible during the year the con-
struction is started on the sewerage system. The Town,
for the purpose of assessing benefits, shall divide all
properties fronting upon a street, road, lane, alley or right-
of-way in which a sewer main is to be laid into five classes,
namely: first, agricultural; second, small acreage; third,
industrial or business; fourth, institutional; and fifth, sub-
division property, and all such benefit charges and assess-
ments shall be fixed and levied in accordance with the
above classifications; provided, however, that no front foot
benefit charge or assessment shall be levied against any
agricultural property until such property is connected with