1098

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 159

(b)    The [said] annual assessment based on the
Commission's fiscal year shall be made upon the front
foot basis and the first payment shall be collected
during the year which the construction is completed on
the water supply, sewerage or drainage systems, or in
which the systems are purchased or acquired. The [said]
Commission for the purpose of assessing [benefits] DEBT
SERVICE CHARGES shall divide all properties binding upon
a street, road, lane, alley or right-of—way, in which a
water pipe or sanitary sewer is to be laid, into four
classes, namely: Agricultural, small acreage, industrial
or business, and subdivision property, and the Commission
may subdivide each of [said] THE classes in [such] THE
manner [as] it may deem to be in the public interest.
Whenever any water supply or sewerage project in [said]
THE sanitary district or sanitary districts is available
for service the [said] Commission shall fix and levy a
[benefit] DEBT SERVICE charge for the remainder of the
fiscal year on a pro rata basis upon all property in said
sanitary district abutting upon said water main or sewer
or otherwise served by the water supply, sewerage or
drainage systems or a part thereof in accordance with the
classification or subdivision thereof, and shall in
writing, notify all owners of said properties into which
class and subdivision their respective properties fall
and the charge determined upon, naming also in said
notice a time and place, when and at which time said
owner will be heard. [Such] THE notice may be mailed to
the last known address of the owner, or served in person
upon any adult occupying the premises or in case of a
vacant or unimproved property posted upon the premises.

(c)    The classification of and the [benefit] DEBT
SERVICE CHARGE assessed against any property as made by
the Commission shall be final, subject only to revision
at [said] A hearing. The Commission may change the
classification of property from time to time as said
properties change in the uses to which they are put.
[Said benefits] THE CHARGES shall be levied for both
water supply and sewerage construction and when made upon
the front foot basis shall be based for each class of
property upon the number of front feet abutting upon the
street, lane, road, alley or right-of-way in which the
water pipe or sewer is placed; provided, however, that in
the case of any irregular shaped lot abutting upon a
road, street, lane, alley or right-of-way in which there
is or is being constructed a water main or sewer at any
point, said lot shall be assessed for such frontage as
the Commission may determine to be reasonable and fair;
and provided further that no lot in a subdivision
property shall be assessed on more than one side, unless
[said] THE lot abuts upon two parallel streets, that
corner lots may be averaged and assessed upon such