390                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 282

section shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section [445] 446
of this sub-title.

445. The Commission shall be, and it is hereby authorized to make
such charge or charges as it shall determine to be reasonable, on an
area basis or unit basis or other basis selected by the Commission in
its discretion, for urban services provided by it under this sub-title
other than water and sewer, and provided further that all charges
and/or assessments for storm drainage or surface water drainage
systems shall be on an area basis and/or on a square foot basis; and
said charges shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and
be a lien on all property so served in said district as fully set forth
in Section 330 430 of this sub-title.

[445] 446. Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor
in this sub-title, unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable by any
trial magistrate or the Circuit Court of the County within which such
offense is committed, and the offender shall, upon conviction, be
subject to a fine of not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or
to confinement of not more than thirty (30) days in the county jail,
or both, in the discretion of the magistrate or Circuit Court. Where
such costs or omission is of a continuing nature and is persisted in,
in violation of the provisions of this sub-title or of any rule or regu-
lation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense shall not
be a bar to the conviction for a continuation of such offense subse-
quent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

[446] 447. Any land owned by a church, and constituting the
premises occupied by such or its parsonage, and used exclusively for
public worship or for other religious or customary purposes of a
church or parsonage and not for investment gain or other secular
purposes, shall be exempt from the benefit assessments provided for
by this sub-title in respect of a frontage not exceeding one hundred
and fifty (150) feet. The Commission may, in its discretion, exercise
in each individual case, grant or withhold a further exemption of the
land so owned and used in respect of any frontage thereof in excess
of one hundred and fifty (150) feet hereinbefore provided for.

[447] 448. The Commission each year shall file its budget with
the County Commissioners of Wicomico County, and after the Com-
mission has been allowed a hearing on said budget, the County Com-
missioners shall have the power to amend, alter or reduce said
budget, in their discretion.

[448] 449. The Commission shall be, and it is hereby authorized
to prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the administration
and enforcement of this sub-title.

[449] 449A. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the
provisions of this sub-title are hereby repealed to the extent of their
inconsistency, provided that nothing herein contained shall be taken
as restricting any control which the State Board of Health of Mary-
land and the Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources are
empowered to exercise within any [sanitary] districts.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 3, 1959.