THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   1125

bonds, penalties and conditions as the Commission may require, all
of which shall be enforced in any court having jurisdiction.

401. for the purpose of paying the interest and principal 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 un-
improved, 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 construc-
tion is completed on the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems,
or in which the systems are purchased or acquired. The said Com-
mission 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. When-
ever any water supply or setverage project in said sanitary district
or sanitary districts shall have been completed by March 31st, in
any one year, regardless of when said construction was commenced,
then the said Commission shall fix and levy a benefit charge as of the
first day of January in which the project was completed upon all
property in said sanitary district abutting upon said water main
or sewer, in accordance with the classification or sub-division there-
of, 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 un-
improved 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 hearing. 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 con-
struction and shall be based for each class of property upon the
number of front feet abutting upon the street, lane, road, alley
or right-of-way in which the water pipe or sewer is placed; pro-
vided, however, that in the case of any irregular shaped lot abutting
upon a road, street, lane, alley or right-of-way in which there is or
is being constructed a water main or sewer at any point, said lot
shall be assessed for such frontage as the Commission may determine
. to be reasonable and fair; and provided further that no lot in a
sub-division property shall be assessed on more than one side,
unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, or unless said lot is
a corner lot, in which event said lot may be averaged and assessed
upon such frontage as the Commission may deem reasonable and
fair, and that all lots in this class shall be assessed even though a
water main or sewer may not extend along the full length of any