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the service WATER AND SEWER USAGE charges on an estimated
basis for periods of six months or less, but in such cases it shall re-
quire that the meters be read every six months and that the final
bill for such six months period be based on actual consumption ad-
justed by the previous estimates. The Commission may further
provide that the minimum or ready to serve charge, hereinabove
provided for, includes a specified minimum number of gallons of
water without additional service charges therefor, the minimum
figure varying with the size of the meter involved. Bills for the amount
of the charges as above specified shall be sent monthly, quarterly,
or semi-annually, as the Commission may determine, to each property
served, and shall be thereupon payable at the office of the Commis-
sion; 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, together with penalties LATE PAYMENT
PENALTY CHARGES AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW and the cost
incurred in shutting off and restoring the water supply, shall have
been paid. If any bill 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 col-
lectible in the respective counties.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1965.

Approved May 4, 1965.

CHAPTER 786
(House Bill 213)

AN ACT relating to the Washington Suburban Sanitary District,
repealing and re-enacting, with amendments, subsection (i) of
Section 83-71 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County (1963 Edition) and subsection (i) of Section 73-56 of the
Montgomery County Code (1960 Edition), being Articles 17 and
16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
titles "Prince George's County" and "Montgomery County," sub-
title "Washington Suburban Sanitary District," as said subsection
was last amended by Chapter 506 of the Acts of 1927, to provide
that front foot benefit charges may be levied with an effective
date the first of July as well as the first of January of any year.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsection (i) of Section 83-71 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County (1963 Edition), being Section 73-56
of the Montgomery County Code (1960 Edition), and being articles
17 and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, titles "Prince George's County" and "Montgomery County,"
subtitle "Washington Suburban Sanitary District," be and it is
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: