SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1199

by such drainage system or 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
establish 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
property in any year for which such property is currently subject to a
front foot benefit assessment as elsewhere in this subheading pro-
vided.

10A20. 22.

Front foot benefit assessments, water and sewer system upkeep
charges, connection charges, drainage charges and other charges
which the Commission 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 through-
out the sanitary district.

Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this sub-
heading unless otherwise provided, shall be punishable by any trial
magistrate or the Circuit Court of Frederick County, and the
offender, upon conviction, 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 Circuit Court. If the act or omission is of a continuing
nature and is persisted in, in violation of the provisions of this
subheading 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.

10A22. 24.

The Commission may prescribe all needful rules and regulations
for the administration and enforcement of this subheading. In addi-
tion to its own power to adopt appropriate rules and regulations, the
Commission may adopt and enforce regulations of the State Depart-
ment of Health and/or the Frederick County Health Officer fixing
standards of construction for sanitary facilities or installations. Prior
to the adoption of any such rules and regulations other than those
of the State Department of Health or the Frederick County Health
Officer the Commission shall give public notice of the rules and regu-
lations which it proposes to adopt by publishing the same in at least
two newspapers of general circulation published in Frederick County
at least twice not less than fifteen (15) days prior to a public hearing,
the date, time and place of which shall be specified in such notice.

10A-25.

IN THE EVENT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF FRED-
ERICK COUNTY, PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS

10A21. 23.