SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       1659

address of the owner, shall turn off the water from the property in
question; and the water shall not be turned on again until said bill
has been paid, including a penalty of three dollars ($3.00).

(2) A charge for the upkeep of water and sewer systems against
all properties having a connection with any water main or sewer
under its operation or ownership. The charge for the upkeep of the
water and sewer system, if any, shall be made upon such reasonable
basis as the Commission may determine and shall be collected an-
nually in the same manner as are front foot benefit assessments
against all property having a connection within a water main or
sewer under the operation or ownership of the Commission and shall
be a lien against such property. Such charges shall be based upon
such classifications as the Commission from time to time may estab-
lish and shall be uniform throughout each sanitary system within
each such classification; provided, however, that no charge for the
upkeep of water and sewer systems shall be made against any prop-
erty in any year for which such property is currently subject to a
front foot benefit assessment as elsewhere in this subtitle provided.

439W.

Front foot benefit assessments, water and sewer system upkeep
charges, connection charges, and other charges which the Commis-
sion is empowered to make shall be liens upon the property served
or benefited and, in addition to being enforced by actions at law,
may be enforced by a bill in equity against the property so served or
benefited. The liens shall be subject only to liens for State and county
taxes. Such charges shall be due when made and after sixty (60)
days from that date shall bear interest at the rate of one-half per
centum (½%) per month. Neither the due dates nor the interval
between such dates need be uniform throughout the county.

439X.

Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this subtitle
unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable by any trial magistrate
or the Circuit Court for Carroll County, and the offender upon con-
viction, is subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
($100.00) or to confinement in the county jail for not more than
thirty (30) days, or both in the discretion of the magistrate or Cir-
cuit Court. If the act or omission is of a continuing nature and is
persisted in, in violation of the provisions of this subtitle or of any
rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a conviction for one offense
shall not be a bar to the conviction for a continuation of such offense
subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

439Y.

The Commission may prescribe all needful rules and regulations
for the administration and enforcement of this subtitle, but no such
rule or regulation shall become final or binding until it has been ap-
proved by a resolution duly authorized and passed by the Board at
its regular meeting or at a special meeting called for the purpose of
acting upon such approval. In addition to its own power to adopt
appropriate rules and regulations, the Commission may adopt and
enforce regulations of the State Department of Health and/or the
Carroll County Health Officer fixing standards of construction for