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by the owner of the property, whereupon the property shall be
classified and the benefit charge shall commence and run for the
total number of years, at the rate for such class, which it would
have run had it been established at the time of the original con-
struction. If property in the Sanitary District is at the time of
construction of a Commission water line or sanitary sewer line
connected to a public water system or public sewer system operated
either by a municipality or by a water or sewer company subject
to the requirements of the Maryland State Department of Health,
such property shall be exempt from the imposition and collection
of a Sanitary District front foot benefit assessment until it is
served by or connected to the Commission's water or sanitary sew-
erage system, as the case may be. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SECTION RELATIVE TO THE EXEMPTION FROM FRONT
FOOT BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS OF PROPERTIES SERVED
BY ANOTHER PUBLIC WATER OR SEWER SYSTEM ARE
NOT INTENDED TO, NOR SHALL THEY, SUPERSEDE OR
MODIFY THE SPECIAL PROVISIONS OF SUBSECTIONS (C)
AND (D) OF SECTION 83-42 (71-1A) OF THIS SUBTITLE
WITH RESPECT TO THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS CALVERT
MANOR. ANY LAND OR PROPERTY EXEMPTED FROM OR
WITH RESPECT TO WHICH THERE IS A SUSPENSION OF
FRONT FOOT BENEFIT CHARGES, SHALL BECOME LIABLE
TO A BENEFIT ASSESSMENT CHARGE AT A RATE AND
FOR A PERIOD OF TIME NOT LESS THAN THE RATE AND
NUMBER OF YEARS WHICH WOULD HAVE APPLIED AT
THE TIME OF EXEMPTION OR SUSPENSION, WHEN THE
EXEMPTION OR SUSPENSION CONDITION IS NO LONGER
APPLICABLE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS HEREOF
WHICH ESTABLISHED SUCH CONDITION IN THE FIRST
INSTANCE.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public health and safety and having been
passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the
members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 162
(Senate Bill 629)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 40 of
Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Zoning and Planning", subtitle "Historic
Area Zoning", and to add new Section 40A to said Article, title
and subtitle of said Code to follow immediately after Section 40
thereof to permit historic district Commissions to accept gifts and
to acquire architectural easement.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 40 of Article 66B of the Annotated Code of Maryland