2514

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 911

assessed upon such frontage as the Commission may deem
reasonable and fair, and that all lots in this class
shall be assessed even though a water main or sewer may
not extend along the full length of any boundary; and
provided further, that no land so classified as
agricultural by this Commission shall be assessed a debt
service charge when the agricultural land has constructed
through it 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 debt service assessment for such
reasonable frontage not exceeding three hundred (300)
feet, or may be determined by the Commission, and shall
be immediately assessed at the rate of assessment
determined by the Commission for agricultural land.]

[(d) Debt service charges for water supply and
sewerage construction shall be as nearly uniform as is
reasonably practical for each class or subclass of
property throughout each district for any one year and no
debt service charge, once levied, shall be increased;
provided, however, that whenever the Commission acquires
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 the
system and which contribution the Commission has
determined to be a factor in the cost to the Commission
of such system, the Commission may, in its discretion,
levy a debt service assessment less than the uniform
debt service assessment levied in the remainder of the
sanitary district in which said system is located. The
amount of the debt service charge per front foot for each
class of property for both water mains and sewers may be
reduced from time to time by the Commission in its
discretion, if costs and conditions are deemed by it to
justify such reduction. Subsequent to any pro rata debt
service charge for the balance of the fiscal year in
which any water supply or sewerage project in the said
sanitary district is completed, said debt service charge
shall be billed at the time or times determined by the
Commission to all properties assessed for a period of
years co—extensive with the period of maturity of the
bonds out of the proceeds of which the construction was
done and shall be paid under such terms and conditions as
the Commission from time to time shall determine.]

[(e) The Commission shall at any time permit a
connection with a water main or sewer by the property
owner whose property does not abut on the water main or
sewer and who has not previously thereto paid a debt
service charge for the construction of said water main or
sewer, provided, said Commission shall classify the
property and determine a debt service charge to be paid
by the property owner as though his or her property
abutted upon the water main or sewer; and in the event of
the connection being made, the property owner and the
property as to all charges, rates and assessments shall
stand in every respect in the same position as if the