SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                          211

and sewer benefit charges and providing for exemptions from
or suspensions in the imposition of the charges in specified cir-
cumstances and during specified periods, including the period
of time of connection by a property to a water or sanitary
sewerage system operated by a municipality.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsection (d) of Section 83-71 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County (1963 Edition), being Section
71-19 of the Montgomery County Code (1965 Edition), and being
Articles 17 and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, 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and it is repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as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:

83-71. (71-19).

(d) In classifying property and levying said front foot benefit
charge, any irregularly shaped lot abutting upon a road, street,
lane, alley, right of way or easement in which there is or is being
constructed a water main or sewer shall be assessed for the front-
age determined by the Commission to be reasonable and fair.
Wherever there are a number of lots in the same block in one
ownership appurtenant to a residence, the Commission may give
a continuous frontage to all of the lots regardless of the streets
upon which they face. A corner lot in the subdivision residential
class of less than two (2) acres in size shall not be assessed on
more than one side, unless it also abuts on two parallel streets,
but the frontage assessed may be that determined to be reasonable
and fair by the Commission, giving consideration to the frontage
towards which the building on the lot would naturally face. Lots
running through with front and rear on separate streets may be
assessed on both front and rear. Any of the lots in the foregoing
categories may be assessed for their full frontage even though a
water main or sewer may not extend along the full length of any
boundary. No land so classed as agricultural by this Commission,
when in actual use for farming or trucking purposes, shall be
assessed a front foot benefit when such agricultural land has con-
structed through it or in front of it a sewer or water main, until
such time as a water or sewer connection is made, and when so
made and for every connection such land shall become liable to
a front foot assessment for such reasonable frontage, not exceed-
ing three hundred foot front, as may be determined by said Com-
mission, and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment
determined upon by said Commission for agricultural land. State,
county and municipal buildings or property or public parks or
playgrounds owned by a municipality, and any property or building
owned by a regularly organized volunteer fire department, while
so used for such public purposes, shall be exempt from [said] the
imposition of a front foot benefit charge. The Commission may
further provide for a hiatus in the imposition and collection of a
front foot benefit assessment for any property otherwise assessable
with respect to a sanitary sewer line which property cannot in the
judgment of the Commission obtain service from the sewer pipe
upon which the benefit would be based, but the suspension of the
benefit charge shall terminate at any time a connection with the
Commission's sewer pipe or water line, as the case may be, is made