J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                             917

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 regulations 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 Commission'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 payment 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
collectible against the owner of the property served, in the same
manner as other debts are collectible in the respective counties. The
provisions of this section shall not be construed as authority to re-
pudiate any existing contracts between the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission and any municipality located within the Wash-
ington Suburban Sanitary District without the consent of the muni-
cipality.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 608
(House Bill 300)

AN ACT relating to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission;
to add Section 1562B to the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County (1953 Edition), being Article 17 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's County", sub-title
"Washington Suburban Sanitary District", said new section to

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