2280                               Municipal Charters

Henry A. Prince, Sr.
Audrey B. Walker

Robert N. Woolwise
ATTEST:

M. Arlene Lavertz, Town Clerk
(SEAL)

Charter Amendment No. 69-3
Mayor and Common Council of Capitol Heights, Maryland

A Resolution and Ordinance to repeal and re-enact with amendments
Section 8-26 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County, Maryland (1963 Edition), titled, "Capitol Heights," and sub-
titled, "Sidewalks," being a section of the Charter of the Mayor and
Common Council of Capitol Heights, and removing therefrom the
two-thirds assessment for the cost of construction of sidewalks;
and, in place thereof to provide for a uniform method of special
assessment for construction of sidewalks, streets, storm water sewers,
curbs, and gutters, and other construction; setting the procedure for
the assessment, method of levying assessments, method of collecting
assessments, providing for a hearing on assessment, and method
payment of assessments.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED by the
Mayor and Common Council of Capitol Heights, Maryland, that Section
8-26 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County, Maryland
(1963 Edition), titled, "Capitol Heights," and subtitled, "Sidewalks,"
being a section of the Charter of the Mayor and Common Council of
Capitol Heights, Maryland, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

8-26. [Sidewalks.] Special Assessments.

[All sidewalks on any of the streets of said town shall not be less
than four feet in width, and of such material as the Mayor and Common
Council may direct, and said Mayor and Common Council may assess
upon the land abutting said sidewalk two-thirds of the cost of construction
thereof, which assessment shall be a lien upon such abutting property,
and be recovered from the owners of such abutting property in the name
of the corporation as others of like amount are recoverable in this State
by law.]

(a) Powers: Special Assessments. The Town shall have the power
to levy and collect taxes in the form of special assessments upon property
in a limited and determinable area for special benefits conferred upon such
property by the installation, construction, or reconstruction of mains,
storm water sewers, curbs and gutters and by the construction or recon-
struction and paving of public ways and sidewalks or parts thereof, and
to provide for the payment of all or any part of the above projects out
of the proceeds of such special assessments. The cost of any such project
shall include the direct cost thereof, as well as the cost of any land acquired
for the project, the principal and interest payments of bonds, notes, or
other evidences of indebtedness issued to obtain funds for such construc-
tion, and the advertising, legal, administrative, engineering, surveying,
inspecting and miscellaneous fees and charges incurred in connection with
the project.