MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                            2515

property abutted upon a water main or sewer.]

[(f) The debt service charge shall be payable at
the office of the Commission as such times as determined
by the Commission, If any charges remain unpaid for a
period of 30 days from the due date of payment, a late
charge at the rate of 1 1/2 percent per month shall be
made until all delinquent charges are paid, the late
charge to be in addition to all other charges. The
entire unpaid debt service charge shall be overdue and in
default after sixty (60) days from the due date of
payment of all or a part of the debt service charge as
required by the Commission at which time the Commission
may proceed to enforce payment thereof. The annual debt
service assessment or other charges as above specified
shall be a first lien upon the property against which
they are assessed until paid, any statute of limitations
to the contrary notwithstanding, subject only to prior
State and county taxes, and if any property be sold for
State and/or county taxes or both by the Treasurer of
said county; and if after sale there is a surplus after
all costs and expenses incident to such sale shall have
been paid, then the said Commission upon proper petition
to the Circuit Court for the county shall be allowed any
balance from said surplus, and shall be preferred lien or
to the extent of its lien; and for the purpose of giving
notice to the general public as to existing liens and
charges against any property within any sanitary district
abutting upon any water or sewer main, the Commission
shall keep a public record of all names of owners of
property, locations of said property, lot numbers when of
record, and the amount of the debt service charges, water
service charges or such other charges that may become
liens from time to time. Said records shall be kept in
the County Seat of government and among the land records
of St. Mary's County, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for the county shall furnish the space necessary to keep
and preserve the records, which, when recorded in the
public record, shall be legal notice of all existing
liens within any sanitary district. If any liens, 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 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 the liens against the owner of record at the time
said levy was made, or the owner of record at the time
the suit is filed or any owner of record between the
dates, and publication thereon shall be notice to all
persons having any interest in the property.]

164. BENEFIT CHARGES.

(A) CHARGES. FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE
PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON THE BONDS ISSUED BY THE