Marvin Mandel, Governor                           41

Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil County" subtitle "Sanitary District,"
as last amended by Chapter 696 of the Acts of 1965, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as
follows:

419 (g) Liens.

The annual benefit assessment and other charges as above specified
shall be a first lien upon the property against which they are assessed
until paid, any statute of limitations to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, subject only to prior State and County taxes, and if any prop-
erty be sold for State and/or County taxes or both by the Treasurer
of said County; and if after sale there is a surplus after all costs
and expenses incident to such sale shall have been paid, then the
said Commission upon proper petition to the Circuit Court for said
County shall be allowed any balance from said surplus, and shall be
a preferred lienor to the extent of its lien; and for the purpose of
giving notice to the general public as to existing liens and
charges against any property within any sanitary district abutting
upon any water or sewer main, the said Commission shall keep a
public record of all names of owners of property, locations of said
property, lot numbers when of record, and the amount of such
benefit charges, water service charges or such other charges that
may become liens from time to time. Such records shall be kept in
the County seat of government and among the land records of Cecil
County, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall
furnish such space as may be necessary to keep and preserve such
records, which, when recorded in said public record, shall be legal
notice of all existing liens within any sanitary district. If any liens,
benefit assessments or other charges remain unpaid for sixty (60)
days after becoming due, they may be collected by an action of
assumpsit or by a bill in equity to enforce such liens, and any judg-
ment or decree obtained, where the defendants have been served
by subpoena, or in any other manner provided by law, shall have the
force and effect of a judgment in personam; and the Commission
may sue, or file a bill in equity to enforce such liens against the
owner of record at the time said levy was made, or the owner of
record at the time said suit is filed or any owner of record between
said dates, and publication thereon shall be notice to all persons
having any interest in said property. If any liens, benefit assess-
ments or other charges shall be not paid within any fiscal year, the
county treasurer shall, upon certification of the Commission that
said lien, benefit assessment or other charge is unpaid, sell such
property of the delinquent taxpayer at the same time and in the
same manner as other properties at a tax sale.

The said certification of the Commission shall be made to the
tax collector at least ninety (90) days before tax sale and shall
be in such form and shall contain such information as the tax
collector may require. The manner and procedure relative to such
sales by the Collector of taxes shall in all respects conform to the
procedures relating to tax sales set forth in the Annotated Code of
Maryland as they may from time to time appear.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 1, 1970