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nection charge in installments unless said applicant has first submit-
ted written evidence satisfactory to the Controller that said applicant
cannot obtain private financing. Any of such installments may be
prepaid at any time.

(h) Such installments, and the interest thereon, shall consti-
tute liens on the property charged until paid and any such installment
not paid within sixty (60) days of its billing date shall, at the option
of the Controller, cause the entire unpaid balance to be immediately
due and payable. The lien of such unpaid installments shall be sub-
ordinate only to the lien of State and County taxes and special
benefit assessments and payment thereof shall be enforced at the
same time and in the same manner as such taxes and assessments.
Upon the institution of any foreclosure or tax sale proceedings or
title transfer by deed as a result of sale, with respect to a property
subject to a lien for such installments, the unpaid balance thereof
shall become immediately due and payable.

Section 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 17-606 (g)
and (h) of said Code, Title, and Subtitle be, and they are hereby
repealed, and new Sections 17-606 (g) and (h) be, and they are
hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the Sections
repealed, to read as follows:

Section 17-606

(g) Except in the case of existing structures, the wastewater
connection charge shall be paid in full at the time application for
connection is made. With respect to existing single-family dwelling
units, the user connection charge shall be paid in full upon the date
application for connection is made, or at the option of the applicant,
on or before the expiration of one (1) year from such date, bearing
interest on the unpaid balance at a rate to be determined by the
Controller predicated upon the then current rate on invested County
funds. The capital connection charge for existing structures may
likewise be so paid in full on date of application or, at his option, the
applicant may elect to pay the sum of the user connection charge and
the capital connection charge in five (5) equal consecutive annual
installments, or in sixty (60) monthly installments, bearing interest
on the combined unpaid balance at a rate to be determined by the
Controller predicated upon the then current rate on invested County
funds. Annual installments to be billed and payable on each annual
anniversary of the date of application for connection, or if monthly
installments were elected by the applicant, monthly installments are
due and payable each month beginning one (1) month from the date
of application for connection, provided that no applicant owning other
than existing single-family dwelling units may pay the capital con-
nection charge in installments unless said applicant has first sub-
mitted written evidence satisfactory to the Controller that said appli-
cant cannot obtain private financing. Any of such installments may
be prepaid at any time.

(h) Such installments, and the interest thereon, shall consti-
tute liens on the property charged until paid and any such installment