Howard County                                   2753

The Director of Public Works FINANCE shall change the classification
of property from time to time as said properties change in the uses to
which they are put.

(d)    Said benefits shall be levied for both water supply and sewerage
construction and shall be based for each class of property upon the number
of front feet abutting upon the street, lane, road, alley or right-of-way
in which the water pipes or sewer is placed and the intensity of the
development or use of the property abutting the said water main or
sewer line; provided, however, that the case of any irregular shaped
lot abutting upon a road, street, lane, alley or right-of-way in which
there is or is being constructed a water main or sewer at any point,
said lot shall be assessed for such frontage as the Director of Public
Works FINANCE may determine to be reasonable and fair; and provided
further, that no lot in a subdivision property shall be assessed on more
than one side; unless said lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that corner
lots may be averaged and assessed upon such frontage as the Director
of Public Works FINANCE may deem reasonable and fair, and that
all lots in this class shall be assessed even though a water main or sewer
may not extend along the full length of any boundard; and provided
further, that no land so classified as agricultural by the Director of Public
Works FINANCE shall be assessed a front foot benefit when said agri-
cultural land has constructed through it or 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 connection such land shall become liable to a front
foot assessment for such reasonable frontage not exceeding three hundred
feet, as may be determined by said Director of Public Works FINANCE
and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment determined by
said Director of Public Works FINANCE for agricultural land.

(e)     Front foot benefit charges for water supply and sewerage con-
struction shall be as nearly uniform as is reasonably practical for each
class or sub-class of property throughout the Metropolitan District for any
one year and no benefit charge, once levied, shall be increased; provided,
however, that whenever the Director of Public Works acquires an existing
system other than a municipal system, the construction of which has been
added in whole or in part to the purchase of land or lots abutting upon
said system and which contribution the Director of Public Works has
determined to be a factor in the cost to the Director of Public Works of
such system, the Director of Public Works FINANCE may, in his dis-
cretion, levy a front foot assessment levied in the remainder of the Metro-
politan District in which said system is located.

(f)    The amount of the charge per front foot, based on a classification
as determined by subsections (a), (b) and (d) of this Section, for each
class of property for both water mains and sewers may be reduced from
time to time by the Director of Public Works FINANCE in his discretion,
if costs and conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction. Said
benefit charge shall be paid annually by all properties located as above
specified, for a period of years co-extensive with the period of maturity
of the bonds out of the proceeds of which such construction was done.

(g)    The Director of Public Works shall at any time permit a con-
nection 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 THE Director of Public Works FINANCE shall