J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1739

ments shall be payable in the office of the County Treasurer immedi-
ately upon being levied and shall be overdue and in default after
sixty (60) days from that date at which time the County Treasurer
may proceed to enforce payment thereof and the said benefit charge
and any judgment or decree obtained as a result of defaults in pay-
ment thereof shall bear interest at the rate of one-half of one per-
cent (½%) per month from and after the time said benefit assess-
ment or other charges are in default. Annual benefit assessments
or charges shall be a first lien upon the property against which they
are assessed until paid, any statute of limitations to the contrary
notwithstanding, subject only to prior state and county taxes; and
if any property be sold for State and/or County taxes or both by the
Treasurer of said County and if after sale there is a surplus after
all costs and expenses incident to such sale shall have been paid, then
the said County Treasurer shall credit any balance from said sur-
plus to the extent of the accrued benefit charges and interest thereon
to the Joint Sinking Fund of the County Commissioners and said
Commission as provided in Section 512 thereof; and for the purpose
of giving notice to the general public as to existing liens and charges
against every property in any urban service district or sub-district,
the County Treasurer shall keep a public record of all names of
owners of property, locations of said property, lot numbers when of
record, and the amount of such benefit charges, service charges, ad
valorem taxes or such other charges as may become liens from time
to time. Such records shall be legal notice of all existing liens within
any urban service district or sub-district. In addition to such record,
the Commission shall keep on file in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Wicomico County in a plat book indexed "Wicomico
County Urban Services Commission" an up to date plat of each urban
service district or sub-district in the county showing the boundaries
of the district or sub-district and the location of the installation for
payment of the cost of which any benefit charges may be levied and
the portion or portions of such district or sub-districts subject to
benefit charges. If any liens, benefit assessments or other charges
remain unpaid for sixty (60) days after becoming due, they may be
collected by an action of assumpsit or by a bill in equity to enforce
such liens, and any judgment or decree obtained, where the defend-
ants have been served by subpoena, or in any other manner provided
by law, shall have the force and effect of a judgment in personam;
and the County Treasurer on behalf of the Commission may sue,
or file in equity to enforce said liens against the owner of record
at the time said levy was made, or the owner of record at the time
said suit is filed or any owner of record between said dates, and
publication thereon shall be notice to all persons having any interest
in said property. Any judgment or decree obtained by the County
Treasurer shall have the same priority as the charge or assessment
on which it was obtained. In addition to any other methods of col-
lection herein provided, the County Treasurer shall have the right
to enforce collection of any benefit assessments or ad valorem taxes
in the same method and manner and by the same procedure provided
for the collection of State and County taxes.

522. Connections; charges.

The Commission shall provide for each and every property abutting
upon a street or right-of-way in which under this subtitle, a water