Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1071

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 col-
lected by an action of assumpsit or by a bill in equity to enforce such
liens, and any judgment 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] Department 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 assessments or other charges shall be not paid
within any fiscal year, the county treasurer shall, upon certification
of the Department 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 certification of the Department shall be made to the tax col-
lector 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.

19-10.

The [commission] Department shall provide for each and every
property abutting upon a street or right-of-way in which under this
chapter a water main or sewer is laid, a water service pipe or sewer
connection, which shall be extended as required, from the water
main or sewer to the property line of the abutting lot, said service
pipe or connection with sewer shall be constructed by and at the
sole expense of the [commission] Department, but subject to a
reasonable charge for said connection as provided in Section 19-12,
which said charge shall be paid by all property owners at the office
of the [commission] Department before the actual connection with
any pipe or private property is made. When any water main or
sewer is declared by [said commission] the Department complete
and ready for the delivery of water or the reception of sewage,
every abutting property owner, after due notice, shall make a con-
nection of all spigots or hydrants, toilets and waste drains with
said water main or sewer within the time prescribed by the [com-
mission] Department. Where the aforesaid fixtures do not exist, or
are of a nature which, in the judgment of the [commission] Depart-
ment, is improper or inadequate, satisfactory equipment shall be
installed by the owner on the premises consisting of at least one
water closet and one sink or washbasin, both of which shall be
properly connected with the sewer of said [metropolitan commission]
Department. All cesspools, sink drains and privies located on prop-
erties connected to sewers provided by the [commission] Depart-
ment shall be abandoned, closed and left in a sanitary condition so
that no odor or nuisance shall arise therefrom. Any violation of the
provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor punishable under
Section 19-22.