Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1873

structed through it or in front of it a sewer or water main, until
such time as the 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 (300) feet, or AS may be determined by the county,
and shall be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment deter-
mined by the county for agricultural land.

(d)    Same; uniformity. Front foot benefit charges ASSESS-
MENTS for water supply and sewerage construction shall be as
nearly uniform as is reasonably practical for each class or sub-class of
property throughout each district THE SANITARY DISTRICT
for any one year and no benefit charge, once levied, shall
be increased; provided, however, that whenever the county ac-
quires an existing system other than a municipal system, the
construction of which has been added in whole or in part to the
purchase price of land or lots abutting upon said system and which
contribution the county has determined to be a factor in the cost
to the county of such system, the county may, in its discretion, levy
a front foot assessment less than the uniform front foot assessment
levied in the remainder of the sanitary district in which said system
is located SANITARY DISTRICT.

(e)    Change in assessments. The amount of the charge ASSESS-
MENT per front foot for each class of property for both water mains,
and sewers SEWERS AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS may be re-
duced from, time to time by the county in its discretion, if costs and
conditions are deemed by it to justify such reduction, BUT MAY BE
SUBSEQUENTLY INCREASED IN THE AMOUNT OF THE
ORIGINAL ASSESSMENT IN THE EVENT REVENUES
PROVE TO BE INSUFFICIENT. Said benefit charge shall be paid
annually by all properties located as above specified, for a period of
years co-extensive with the period of maturity of the bonds out of the
proceeds of which such construction was done.

(f)    Connections. The county shall MAY at any time permit a
connection with a water main or sewer by the property owner whose
property does not abut on said water main or sewer UPON A
STREET, LANE, ROAD, ALLEY OR RIGHT-OF-WAY IN WHICH
A WATER MAIN OR SEWER IS PLACED and who has not pre-
viously thereto paid a benefit charge for the construction of said
water main or sewer, provided, the county shall classify said property
and determine a front foot charge to be paid by said property owner
as though his or her property abutted upon said water main or sewer
A STREET, LANE, ROAD, ALLEY OR RIGHT-OF-WAY IN
WHICH A WATER MAIN OR SEWER IS PLACED; and in the
event of such connection being made, said property owner and said
property as to all charges, rates and benefits shall stand in every re-
spect in the same position as if the said property abutted upon a water
main or sewer SUCH STREET, LANE, ROAD, ALLEY OR RIGHT-
OF-WAY.

(g) Payable. All benefit assessments shall be payable at the

office of the county treasurer immediately upon being levied, and

shall be overdue and in default after sixty (60) days from that day

at which time the county may proceed to enforce payment thereof;

and the said benefit assessments shall bear interest at the rate of

one-half of one per centum per month from and after the time said

benefit assessments are in default.