366                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 114

amendments, by Chapter 652 of the Acts of 1969, concerning
benefit charges and ad valorem taxes and the exemption of cer-
tain properties connected to public systems other than those oper-
ated by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, making
editorial revisions in the provisions of the Sections as enacted by
said Chapter 652 of the Acts of 1969.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsection (d) of Section 83-71 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County (1963 Edition), being also Section
71-19 of the Montgomery County Code (1965 Edition), and being
Articles 17 and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, titled "Prince George's County" and "Montgomery
County" subtitle "Washington Suburban Sanitary District," as the
same was last repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, by Chap-
ter 652 of the Acts of 1969, be and it is repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

83-71. (71-19).

(d) In classifying property and levying said front foot benefit
charge, any irregularly shaped lot abutting upon a road, street, lane,
alley, right of way or easement in which there is or is being con-
structed a water main or sewer shall be assessed for the frontage
determined by the Commission to be reasonable and fair. Wherever
there are a number of lots in the same block in one ownership appur-
tenant to a residence, the Commission may give a continuous front-
age to all of the lots regardless of the streets upon which they face.
A corner lot in the subdivision residential class of less than two (2)
acres in size shall not be assessed on more than one side, unless it
also abuts on two parallel streets, but the frontage assessed may
be that determined to be reasonable and fair by the Commission,
giving consideration to the frontage towards which the building on
the lot would naturally face. Lots running through with front and
rear on separate streets may be assessed on both front and rear.
Any of the lots in the foregoing categories may be assessed for their
full frontage even though a water main or sewer may not extend
along the full length of any boundary. No land so classed as agricul-
tural by this Commission, when in actual use for farming or truck-
ing purposes, shall be assessed a front foot benefit when such agricul-
tural land has constructed through it or in front of it a sewer or
water main, until such time as a 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 foot front, as may be determined by said
Commission, and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assess-
ment determined upon by said Commission for agricultural land.
State, county and municipal buildings or property or public parks or
playgrounds owned by a municipality, and any property or building
owned by a regularly organized volunteer fire department, while so
used for such public purposes, shall be exempt from the imposition
of a front foot benefit charge. The Commission may further pro-
vide for a hiatus in the imposition and collection of a front foot
benefit assessment for any property otherwise assessable with re-
spect to a sanitary sewer line which property cannot in the judgment
of the Commission obtain service from the sewer pipe upon which
the benefit would be based, but the suspension of the benefit charge