THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   1083

the cost of installing such a separate metered connection as well as an
annual amount equal to the Commission's annual water service charge
for the size of the meter so installed for measuring the water so used
and which meter connection upon such payment shall be installed at a
location to be determined by it and shall thereafter be maintained and
exclusively controlled by the Commission under such rules and regula-
tions as the Commission may adopt. Wherever the property of any
Federal, State or other agency is exempt from front foot benefit
charges and ad valorem taxes imposed under the provisions of Chapter
122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1918, and
amendments thereto, and said property is connected to the Commis-
sion's sewerage system, the Commission shall make a sewer usage
charge against said property so connected, with full authority to
change the same from time to time, which charge shall take into
consideration the general tax, and front foot benefit charge levied
within the Sanitary District in addition to the regular sewer usage
charge provided herein. The sum so collected annually for the pay-
ment of principal and interest due on outstanding bonds shall be
deducted from the amount which the Commission has determined to
be necessary to be raised by direct taxation upon certification to the
County Council and to the County Commissioners of said Counties.
Bills for the amount of the charges shall be sent monthly, quarterly or
semi-annually, as the Commission may determine to each property
connected to the sewerage system, and shall be thereupon payable at
the office of the Commission; and if any bill shall remain unpaid after
30 days from date of sending, the Commission shall after written
notice, to be left upon the premises or mailed to the last known
address of the owner, turn off the water from the property in question
and it shall not be turned on again until said bill shall have been paid.
If any bills shall remain unpaid for 60 days after being sent out by
the Commission it shall be collectable against the owner of the
property served, in the same manner as other debts are collectable
in the respective counties. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AUTHORITY TO REPUDIATE
ANY EXISTING CONTRACTS BETWEEN THE WASHINGTON
SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION AND ANY MUNICIPAL-
ITY LOCATED WITHIN THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANI-
TARY DISTRICT WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE MUNICI-
PALITY.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THIS ACT
SHALL TAKE EFFECT JUNE 1, 1955.

Approved April 25, 1955.

CHAPTER 651
(House Bill 377)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 13 (f) of
Article 2B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.