Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1453

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 con-
sideration to the frontage towards which the building on the lot would
naturally face. Lots running through with front and rear on sepa-
rate streets may be assessed on both front and rear. Any of the
lots in the foregoing categories may be assessed for their full front-
age even though a water main or sewer may not extend along the
full length of any boundary. No land so classed as argricultural by
this Commission, when in actual use for farming or trucking pur-
poses, shall be assessed a front foot benefit when such agricultural
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 exceed-
ing three hundred foot front, as may be determined by said Commis-
sion, and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment
determined upon by said Commission for agricultural land. State,
county and municipal buildings or property or public parks or play-
grounds 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 provide for a
hiatus in the imposition and collection of a front foot benefit assess-
ment for any property otherwise assessable with respect 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]. The Commission may provide for a hiatus in the
imposition and the collection of a front foot benefit charge for water
main construction when the owner of the property otherwise subject
thereto under the provisions of this Section is not permitted to con-
nect to the water main by the Commission on account of the absence
of a sanitary sewer or finding by the County Health Department that
a septic system would not be approved for the disposal of the water
for which the connection is requested, and the extension of an im-
proved sewage system is not reasonably feasible. The suspension of
the benefit charge shall terminate at any time a connection with the
Commission's sewer pipe or water main, as the case may be, is made
by the owner of the property, whereupon the property shall be classi-
fied and the benefit charge shall commence and be collected as herein-
after provided with respect to land or property for which benefit
charges had initially been exempted or suspended and such exemption
or suspension is no longer applicable, [run for the total number of
years, at the rate for such class which it would have run had it
been established at the time of the original construction.] If property
in the Sanitary District is at the time of construction of a Commis-
sion water line or sanitary sewer line connected to a public water
system or public sewer system operated either by a municipality or
by a water or sewer company subject to the requirements of the
Maryland State Department of Health, or if following construction of