J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1817

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 construc-
tion 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; provided, 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 paral-
lel streets, that corner lots 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 boundary; and
provided further, that no land so classified as agricultural by this
Commission shall be assessed a front foot benefit when said agricul-
ture land has constructed through it in front of it a sewer or water
main, until such time as the water or sewer connection is made, and
when so made and for every connection such land shall become liable
to a front foot assessment for such reasonable frontage not exceeding
three hundred (300) feet, or may be determined by said Commission,
and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment deter-
mined by said Commission for agricultural land. Front foot benefit
charges for water supply and sewerage construction shall be as
nearly uniform as is reasonably practical for each class or sub-class
of property throughout each district for any one year and no benefit
charge, once levied, shall be increased; provided, however, that when-
ever the Commission acquires an existing system other than a munici-
pal system, the construction of which has been added in whole or in
part to the purchase price of land or lots abutting upon said system
and which contribution the Commission has determined to be a factor
in the cost to the Commission of such system, the Commission may,
in its discretion, levy a front foot assessment less than the uniform
front foot assessment levied in the remainder of the sanitary district
in which said system is located. The amount of the charge per front
foot for each class of property for both water mains and sewers may
be reduced from time to time by the Commission in its discretion, if
costs and conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction. Said
benefit charge shall be paid annually by all properties located as above
specified, for a period of years co-extensive with the period of ma-
turity of the bonds out of the proceeds of which such construction
was done. The Commission shall at any time permit a connection with
a water main or sewer by the property owner whose property does
not abut on said water main or sewer and who has not previously
thereto paid a benefit charge for the construction of said water main