370                               Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 117

URE AND NECESSARY FOR THE IMMEDIATE PRESERVA-
TION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AND HAVING
BEEN PASSED BY A YEA AND NAY VOTE SUPPORTED BY
THREE-FIFTHS OF ALL THE MEMBERS ELECTED TO EACH
OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, THE
SAME SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM THE DATE OF ITS PAS-
SAGE.

Approved April 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 117
(House Bill 84)

AN ACT relating to the Washington Suburban Sanitary District,
to add new Sections 83-71(1) and 71-19(1) to the Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County (1963 Edition) and to the Mont-
gomery County Code (1965 Edition), respectively, being Articles
17 and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, titled "Prince George's County" and "Montgomery County,"
subtitled "Washington Suburban Sanitary District," to follow im-
mediately after Sections 83-71(k) and 71-19(k) THEREOF, as
enacted by Chapter 355 of the Acts of 1970 thereof, providing for
the imposition and collection of a benefit charge for the construc-
tion of augmented water mains or sanitary sewers which even-
tuate from changes in use or zoning character of the properties
abutting initially constructed lines, with a provision for non-
imposition of the augmented line benefit charge against properties
in the single family residential class until the zoning or use char-
acter of those properties change, at the request of the owner.
THE CLASSIFICATION OF SUCH PROPERTY IS CHANGED
BY REASON OF CHANGE IN USE OR ON ACCOUNT OF
ZONING CLASS CHANGE REQUESTED BY THE OWNER.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 83-71(1) and 71-19(1) be and they are hereby added,
respectively, to the Public Local Laws of Prince George's County
(1963 Edition) and the Montgomery County Code (1965 Edition),
being Articles 17 and 16, respectively, of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, titled "Prince George's County" and "Mont-
gomery County," subtitled "Washington Suburban Sanitary Dis-
trict," to follow immediately after Sections 83-71(k) and 71-19(k)
as enacted by Chapter 355 of the Acts of 1970 thereof, and to read
as follows:

83-71. (71-19).

(l) Where a water main or sanitary sewer is replaced or aug-
mented by the Commission in order to provide increased water or
sewer service capability to abutting or connected properties, and the
necessity for the enlarged replacement or augmentation arises from
changes in use or zoning category of the properties so abutting or
connected, those properties shall derive a benefit from the enlarged
or augmented facility, and benefit charges for the construction there-