MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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necessary to keep and preserve [such] THE records, which,
when recorded in [said] THE public record, shall be legal
notice of all existing liens within any sanitary
district. If any liens, [benefit] DEBT SERVICE
assessments or other charges remain unpaid for sixty (60)
days after becoming overdue they may be collected by an
action of assumpsit or by a bill in equity to enforce
[such] THE liens, and any judgment or decree obtained,
where the defendants have been served by subpoena, or in
any other manner provided by law, shall have the force
and effect of a judgment in personam; and the Commission
may sue, or file a bill in equity to enforce [said] THE
liens against the owner of record at the time said levy
was made, or the owner of record at the time [said] THE
suit is filed or any owner of record between [said] THE
dates, and publication thereon shall be notice to all
persons having any interest in [said] THE property.

168.

All sums collected by the Commission for [benefits]
DEBT SERVICE CHARGES levied against the property for
water supply, sewerage or drainage construction shall be
set aside as a separate fund to be known and designated
as the Metropolitan District Account. The Commission, in
order to determine the amount which it may deem necessary
to be levied under Section 162, shall deduct such amount
as the Commission may estimate that it will be able to
collect out of the [benefits] DEBT SERVICE CHARGES
theretofore levied by it but not yet paid, from the whole
amount necessary to be raised in any one year for
interest and principal payments on outstanding bonds, and
the balance then remaining to be raised shall be the
amount to be certified to the County Commissioners of St.
Mary's County for collection by taxation as provided [by
Section 180] IN THIS SUBTITLE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved April 8, 1975.

CHAPTER 160
(Senate Bill 905)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County — Sanitary Districts