J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        965

beginning of each fiscal year of the County, the Commission shall
certify to the County Treasurer, in such manner as shall be pre-
scribed by him, the annual benefit assessments to be collected for
such year. The County Treasurer shall include such assessments so
certified in the County tax bills for the properties affected and shall
remit to the Commission at regular intervals the proceeds from the
collection of said assessments. If construction of a water supply, sew-
erage or drainage system, or any part thereof, is completed after the
beginning of any fiscal year, the properties benefited shall be charged
for such year a proportion of the annual assessments fixed by the
Commission for such properties, determined by the ratio which the
number of months in such year in which service is available bears
to the total number of months of said year. Said partial assessments
may be certified to the County Treasurer not more often than once
each quarter and, if so certified, shall be billed by the County Treas-
urer at the same time or times as County taxes for less than a full
year are billed. If not so certified, said partial assessments shall be
added to the assessments certified by the Commission for collection
in the ensuing fiscal year.

(b) Procedure for classification. The said Commission for the
purpose of assessing benefits shall divide all properties binding upon
a street, road, lane, alley or right-of-way, in which a water pipe or
sanitary sewer is to be laid, into four classes, namely: agricultural,
small acreage, industrial or business, and subdivision property, and
the Commission may subdivide each of said classes in such manner
as it may deem to be in the public interest. Whenever any water
supply or sewerage project, or part thereof, in [said] a sanitary
district [or sanitary districts] shall have been completed [by March
31st, in any one year, regardless of when said construction was com-
menced, then], the said Commission shall fix and levy [a] benefit
[charge as of the first day of January in which the project was
completed] assessments upon all [property] properties in said sani-
tary district abutting upon said water main or sewer, in accordance
with the classification or subdivision thereof, and shall in writing,
notify all owners of said properties into which class and subdivision
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 unimproved prop-
erty posted upon the premises.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the subparagraphs of
said Section 419 designated respectively subparagraphs (b) and (c)
shall be changed to subparagraphs (c) and (d).

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That subparagraph (d) of
Section 419 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County (1961
Edition), being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Cecil County", sub-title "Sanitary Districts", be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and is
hereby divided into two subparagraphs, designated respectively
subparagraphs (e) and (f), as follows:

[d] (e) Connections for non-abutting properties. The Commis-
sion shall at any time permit a connection with a water main or