Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1835

deem reasonable and fair, and that all lots in this class shall be as-
sessed even though a water main or sewer may not extend along the
full length of any boundary; and provided further, that no land so
classified as agricultural by this Commission shall be assessed a front
foot benefit when said agriculture land has constructed through it in
front of it a sewer or water main, until such time as the water or
sewer connection is made, and when so made and for every connec-
tion such land shall become liable to a front foot assessment for such
reasonable frontage not exceeding three hundred (300) feet, or may
be determined by said Commission, and shall be immediately assessed
at the rate of assessment determined by said Commission for agri-
cultural land.

(d)    Front foot benefit charges. Front foot benefit charges for
water supply and sewerage construction shall be as nearly uniform
as is reasonably practical for each class or subclass of property
throughout each district for any one year and no benefit charge, once
levied, shall be increased; provided, however, that whenever the
Commission acquires an existing system other than a municipal sys-
tem, the construction of which has been added in whole or in part
to the purchase price of land or lots abutting upon said system and
which contribution the Commission has determined to be a factor in
the cost to the Commission of such system, the Commission may,
in its discretion, levy a front foot assessment less than the uniform
front foot assessment levied in the remainder of the sanitary district
in which said system is located. The amount of the charge per front
foot for each class of property for both water mains and sewers may
be reduced from time to time by the Commission in its discretion, if
costs and conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction.
Subsequent to any pro rata benefit charge for the balance of the
fiscal year in which any water supply or sewerage project in the said
sanitary district is completed, said benefit charge shall be [paid]
billed annually [by] in advance to all properties assessed for a period
of years coextensive with the period of maturity of the bonds out
of the proceeds of which such construction was done and shall be
paid under such terms and conditions as the Commission from
time to time shall determine.

(e)    Connections. The Commission shall at any time permit a
connection with a water main or sewer by the property owner whose
property does not abut on said water main or sewer and who has not
previously thereto paid a benefit charge for the construction of said
water main or sewer, provided, said Commission shall classify said
property and determine a front foot charge to be paid by said prop-
erty owner as though his or her property abutted upon said water
main or sewer; and in the event of such connection being made, said
property owner and said property as to all charges, rates and
benefits shall stand in every respect in the same position as if the
said property abutted upon a water main or sewer.

(f)    Collection. Said benefit charge shall be payable at the office
of the Commission at such times as determined by the Commis-
sion [immediately upon being levied] and the entire unpaid benefit
charge shall be overdue and in default after sixty (60) days from
[that day] the due date of payment of all or a part of the benefit
charge as required by the Commission at which time the Commis-
sion may proceed to enforce payment thereof; and the said benefit
charge and any judgment or decree obtained as a result of default