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Board may upon proper petition to the Circuit Court be allowed the
payment of its lien.

491B. For the purpose of giving notice to the general public as to
existing liens and charges against any property for benefit OR
FRONT FOOT assessments, the County Roads Board shall keep a
public record of all names of property owners and the locations of
said property, and the amount of said benefit charges among the
Land Records of Caroline County under the supervision of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court, and the recordation with said Clerk of said
benefit OR FRONT FOOT assessments shall be legal notice of such
liens.

491C. The County Roads Board shall, on or before January 1, of
each year, certify its benefit OR FRONT FOOT assessments here-
under to the Treasurer of Caroline County for collection from the
property owners affected, and said Treasurer shall add said benefit
OR FRONT FOOT assessments to the State and county property tax
bills for collection in each year without interest or discount, and upon
failure of payment of said benefit OR FRONT FOOT assessments,
they may be deducted from any surplus in the hands of the Treas-
urer after a sale for non-payment of State and county property
taxes under proper order of the Circuit Court. In the alternative, the
lien created in favor of the annual benefit OR FRONT FOOT assess-
ments may be enforced by bill in equity or by action in personam.

491D. Before the powers granted by this section to the County
Roads Board shall be exercised there shall first be a petition of prop-
erty owners as provided in Section 491A requesting construction or
improvements, public hearing upon said petition after ten days
notice in a newspaper regularly published in Caroline County, ap-
proval of said petition by the County Roads Board, and the passage
of an appropriate resolution, setting forth the improvements being
constructed, the property owners affected, and all material terms of
the annual benefit OR FRONT FOOT assessments levied to pay the
cost of said improvements, or any reasonable portion thereof, as
determined by the County Roads Board; provided that no assessment
shall exceed ten per centum (10%) of the assessed value of the
property after giving effect to benefits accruing thereto from the
improvement for which assessed.

491D. Any interested person feeling aggrieved by the levying of
any benefit OR FRONT FOOT assessment shall have the right to
appeal to the Circuit Court for Caroline County within thirty days
after the final adoption of the resolution by the County Roads Board
and such court, sitting without a jury, shall hear and determine
whether the County Roads Board acted pursuant to the authority
granted by Sections 491A through 491D and whether the benefit OR
FRONT FOOT assessments are imposed according to law.

491F. The authority extended to the County Roads Board by this
section shall be in addition to, but not in substitution of, the powers
heretofore vested in them for the improvement of roads in Caroline
County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 17, 1963.