2232                               Municipal Charters

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDAINED by the Mayor and
Council, Town of Bladensburg, Md., That Section 3-56, titled, "PUBLIC
WAYS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT, subtitle (f) Levy and collection
of special assessment, p-79-80, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County, Maryland, 1963-Edition by Everstine, as amended, be
and is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments and to read as
follows:

3-56(f) Levy and collection of special assessment. The Town shall
have the right to levy and collect taxes in the form of special assessment
upon property especially benefited by new street improvement and con-
struction, new sidewalk construction, and by storm water and watershed
drainage construction or parts thereof, and to provide for the payment of
the cost of such projects from the proceeds of the special assessments.
The cost of any such project shall include the direct costs thereof as well
as the cost of any land acquired for the project, the principal and the
interest payments of bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued
to obtain funds for such construction and the advertising, legal, adminis-
trative, engineering, surveying, inspection and miscellaneous fees and
charges incurred in connection with the project.

The special assessment authorized by the provisions hereof shall be
levied proportional against the parcels of land abutting the project, and
shall be computed as the project of the assessable front footage of said
property multiplied by the cost per unit foot of assessable front, except
(that where two or more sides of a parcel of land in a residential zone or
upon which there is a dwelling house abut the project, the abutting front

feet for such parcel shall be computed as the total of (1) one-half of the

footage on the shorter of the several abutting sides or 32 feet whichever is
less, plus (2) the footage on the longer side or sides, or where one side of a

parcel in a residential zone or upon which there is a dwelling house has

already been assessed on a full footage basis for the construction of an

earlier projected and one or more sides of such parcel abut a new project
the abutting front feet for the parcel with respect to the new project shall
be computed as the footage abutting said project less one-half of the footage
abutting the earlier constructed project or 32 feet, whichever figure is

such adjustment which may be made in the specified situation.)

THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER OF THE LAND AND IMPROVE-
MENTS ON A CORNER LOT OR LOTS SHALL PAY THE COST OF
CURB, GUTTER, STREET, AND/OR SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION
ASSESSMENT ON ONLY ONE SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, EITHER
FRONT OR SIDE, BUT NOT LESS THAN FORTY (40) FEET. IN THE
EVENT THAT THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY HAS PREVIOUSLY
PAID AN ASSESSMENT ON LESS THAN FORTY (40) FEET OF THE
SPECIFIC CORNER LOT, THE OWNER SHALL BE ASSESSED FOR
THE DIFFERENCE TO MAKE A TOTAL OF FORTY (40) FEET. IN
CASES OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY AREAS, AND UPON BRIDGES,
AND TOWN PUBLIC PROPERTY BEING INVOLVED IN NEW
STREET AND SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION THE MAYOR AND
COUNCIL, AT ITS DISCRETION MAY PARTICIPATE FINANCIALLY
TO SATISFY ANY REASONABLE DISPUTE WITH REGARDS TO
SETTLEMENT OF FRONT FOOT BENEFITS, AND ANY FINANCIAL
ADJUSTMENTS BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL THE AMOUNT
SHALL BE MADE A PART OF THE ASSESSMENT FOR CALCULA-
TION PURPOSES. Such assessment shall constitute a lien against the
abutting property and shall be payable in cash or in equal installments,