250                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 232

mission to collect the assessment in aid of construction in install-
ments.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 132A of the Code of Public Local Laws of Howard
County (1957 Edition, being Article 14 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Howard County," subtitle "Metropolitan
Commission," as added by Chapter 748 of the Acts of 1961, be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

132A.

In order to finance in part the construction of sewerage systems
on a pay-as-you-go basis, the Commission may impose upon, and
collect from, all properties in a sub-district, at such time or times as
they are connected to, or apply for a connection to, a sewerage sys-
tem constructed or to be constructed by the Commission, an assess-
ment to pay a portion of the cost of the facilities in such system,
which serve or will serve all properties connected therewith, in-
cluding sewerage treatment plants, disposal fields, lagoons, pumping
stations and interceptor sewers. Said assessment shall be known as
an assessment in aid of construction, and may be imposed to pay
in part the cost of any of the above described facilities irrespective
of whether they are located within or beyond the boundaries of a
subdistrict or within or beyond the boundaries of Howard County.
The Commission may adopt an assessment, uniform in amount as
to all properties in a subdistrict, or it may adopt, and from time to
time alter or amend, a variable assessment determined, as to each
property in a subdistrict on the basis of intensity of use or volume
of sewage generated. In adopting any such system of variable assess-
ments, the Commission shall first fix a basic measure of use, to be
known as a sewage unit, shall then fix a uniform charge for such
sewage unit, and shall determine the assessment for each property
on the basis of one sewage unit or any multiple thereof, depending
upon intensity or volume of use as aforesaid. An assessment in aid
of construction shall be imposed only once with respect to each prop-
erty and shall be collected by the Commission in a lump sum at the
time above mentioned [.] , except that the Commission may au-
thorize the collection in installments not to exceed a period of three
years, with interest and service charge. All receipts from assess-
ments in aid of construction shall be credited by the Commission to
a special construction account established on its books and said
receipts shall be used only for payments on account of the cost of
the facilities above described or to liquidate bonds issued by the
Commission for such purpose, to the end that the special benefit
assessments and ad valorem taxes imposed and levied therefor pur-
suant to this subtitle may be correspondingly reduced; provided,
however, that the imposition of any such assessments in aid of
construction may be terminated by the Commission whenever, in
its judgment it shall determine that the burden of paying a portion
of the cost of the facilities above described has been equitably dis-
tributed among all properties connected with such sewerage system.

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

Approved April 8, 1965.